Windy Wellie

We arrived in Wellington around lunchtime. Being a decent sized city, finding cheap parking wasn't too easy. However after a brief stop in the isite, we managed to find a pretty central hostel that had space in their car park for us to camp, which turned out pretty cheap as they only charged us for one of our two nights there. After parking up, we headed into the city for some food, settling for a good burger. Afterwards we had a little walk around and went to Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand. This was very interesting, although I'm not going to lie, I can't really remember too much from our visit. We did see the remains of the largest colossal squid ever caught, which was pretty gross. Eyes the size of footballs. After our feast on knowledge, we headed back to the hostel where we watched a bit of TV, met some crazy older guy who claimed his son was a star quarterback in the NFL but had forgotten about him, and ate dinner, before retiring back to the camper for sleep.

The next day we decided to go and look at some buildings of interest, such as the parliament building, and the nearby library as it offered free wifi. Afterwards, we did a self guided walking tour which we had a leaflet for. It was pretty cool, and took us up the city streets, to particular sculptures, and other important artwork, as well as along the waterfront to other buildings and interesting locations.

After chilling out at the hostel for a bit, we headed back on to the streets with the cable car our destination. The cable car went from one of the low down city streets and scaled one of the cities many hills to the top of the botanical gardens. The journey was quite cool, with good views out over Wellington and the water, with plenty of wind also, seeing as Wellington is apparently the windiest capital city in the world (not really sure if that's true, could be one of the less useful things remembered from our museum visit the previous day). Anyway, we wandered back down to the city through the gardens, which was nice, with it being split into different sections, Australian, European etc. Feeling like we had spent most of the day walking, we went back to the hostel for dinner.

It was pub quiz night in the bar below the hostel, so we thought we would go and put some of our recently obtained, although very limited, knowledge to the test, as well as other useless facts we've picked up along the way. Most of the questions were ridiculous...who even knew Mo from the Simpsons had a pet cat, let alone what it's name was? Anyway, we somehow managed to finish 6th, which wasn't too bad considering there was only two of us. 

After all the excitement we headed back to the camper, as we had to be up early. We had a ferry to the South Island to catch.