Wellington city and harbour....view from Botanic Gardens
Old St Pauls Cathedral in Wellington
Side street in Napier
National Tobacco Company in Napier
After the excitement of Taupo, we headed east to Napier. It is a very nice town that is very much Art Deco, since the original town was destroyed by an earthquake in the 1930's (hence the art deco theme) There are also a million vineyards around, but we did not go to see any of them. We are trying to watch our cash, which is disappearing very fast. We spent a few days there and on the beach there is a complex that you can swim and have a sauna, so we did that one day.
We are now in Wellington...we spent the whole of yesterday walking around looking for the "big welly" sculpture and could not find it.......it was in our book, so we knew it existed. The girls in the tourist info, said no and we said yes...anyway to cut a long story short, it does exist....only 90km away in a different part of NZ...fools...the weather was windy, wet and cold, so we had to take refuge in a nice wee pub.
Meeting up with friends that we originally met in Argentina and then again in La Paz, later today and are catching the ferry on Tuesday to the South Island. No plans as to what we are doing yet, other than meeting a girl from Glasgow, Karen, that IB knows on Tuesday for dinner...we will probably head down the west coast to Queenstown.
Sorry no pictures....there is not a lot to see when you are in the pub...going back into Welly tomorrow, so will try and get some then..
We are now in Wellington...we spent the whole of yesterday walking around looking for the "big welly" sculpture and could not find it.......it was in our book, so we knew it existed. The girls in the tourist info, said no and we said yes...anyway to cut a long story short, it does exist....only 90km away in a different part of NZ...fools...the weather was windy, wet and cold, so we had to take refuge in a nice wee pub.
Meeting up with friends that we originally met in Argentina and then again in La Paz, later today and are catching the ferry on Tuesday to the South Island. No plans as to what we are doing yet, other than meeting a girl from Glasgow, Karen, that IB knows on Tuesday for dinner...we will probably head down the west coast to Queenstown.
Sorry no pictures....there is not a lot to see when you are in the pub...going back into Welly tomorrow, so will try and get some then..
2 comments:
Would love to see some Napier Art Deco pics if you can post them? Always a fan of that style.
Enjoy the South Island and looking forward to the next instalment.
Best.
Pics of Napier at last! Excellent. Enjoy Wellington.
Mhairi and I have the date for the Singapore Grand Prix next year so are able to plan the trip to Australia around that (and a visit to Bangkok to visit my cousin Ross who's teaching English there)
Best to Beni, Jeni and Pee-sac
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