Up at four am, flight at seven am, wellington at eight.
Rest of day walking for miles round (and up and down) wellington with our friend briana. The walk involved the botanical gardens, the waterfront and a craft market in an underground car park
After checking in to the hotel and a quick power nap we spent a couple of hours in te papa. On the way back we had dinner at One Red Dog for esther birthday.
UPDATE WITH PICTURES:
breakfast at the airport
i had an aisle seat so i prepared the belt and arm rest for my future row companions. but they never turned up so i had the row to myself! so i shuffled over and jane joined me
taxi to the hotel to drop our bags off then a wander over to the wooden church which was closed for a private function then by the government buildings to meet Briana
kezia’s choir sung somewhere round here last year
after we met with briana we walked over to the botanical gardens for lunch (here was the first bird poo incident)
we walked up to the top of the cable car which was unfortunately closed for maintenance
but we did find some sculptures and some arts
then we walked back in to town
passing an underground market
and along the waterfront to the train station to wave of briana
we checked in to our teeny hotel room
then walked back along the waterfront (avoiding the pokemon go-ers) to get to te papa
jane and i went round the gallipoli exhition where the statues are 2.4 bigger than life and very realistic
in the evening we popped across the road from our hotel for esther’s birthday dinner
