Thursday, 17 January 2013

Windy Wellington


The bus from Taupo to Wellington took us a little longer than expected – seven and a half hours instead of six and a half owing to traffic jams; people heading back to Wellington from Taupo after spending the weekend there. After stepping off the bus we were buffeted by the wind – gale force winds they felt like. We took shelter in McDonalds where we searched the internet (free Wifi in Maccers) for our hostel; we had a map of Wellington with us but it didn’t show our hostel. We soon found it and made our way through the city centre, along with Wellington Phoenix football fans as there was a game on that evening. We thought Wellington was nice, full of character and little boutique shops and cafes – an improvement on Auckland.

We found our hostel and checked in, we were only in Wellington for one night as we hadn’t heard much about it before we flew over and decided to use it as a necessary stop off before making an early start to the Southern Island the following day. After arriving, we wished we had stayed another night or two so we could have explored Wellington. It seemed like a cool place and there looked like a lot of things to do there. Same story as with everywhere else though, just not enough time in each place to do everything. We know we have not got enough time in New Zealand and we have already agreed that we need to come back and see more…just need to save up more cash!

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