Our day in Wellington

The sun was shining as we awoke and as the noise of the traffic from the street below increased it was time to see some sights. However we needed to spend some time using an internet café with fast lines to fully update the Phanfare Blog where we had over 400 photos to upload. The place we chose was great, it had a very fast line, was air conditioned and clean and tidy unlike previous internet cafés we have visited. Also they had a computer repair centre which we used as in the last week or so our notebook had developed the annoying habit of repeating everything we typed, we typed, we typed etc. So we spent a couple of hours updating the blog photos and emails then we were able to leave the laptop with them and they cleaned out a couple of problems for us. So after spending a considerable time there we hit the streets.

We took the Wellington Cable Car up to the top of the hill and then went into the Botanical Gardens which stretch from there down into the town. The gardens were very nice although suffering rather from the lack of rainfall. The rose garden has over 300 plants and was beautifully laid out though the flowers were getting past their best. There has been quite a severe drought in certain parts of New Zealand and the land is quite parched and dry they are hoping for a wet winter.

The streets of Wellington are quite lively and there is the ‘Arts Festival’ currently taking place. After touring the city for about five hours we headed back to the computer shop to collect the computer, finish the photo upload and make some hotels bookings for our Brisbane trip in early March. We have three full days in Brisbane and have decided that we will stay in town and take trips out as eventually when we drive from Cairns to Sydney it could be tiring.

Then we headed for the Regent Cinema for a Japanese dinner followed by a Coen Brothers film, ‘No place for old men’, which apart from being a violent was very good with a really black humour.

A very enjoyable and most satisfying day indeed.