Wellington

Te Papa Museum - Outside

Wellington - Christmas Tree Outside!

Outside Te Papa Museum & Peter

Jean and Chicken at Te Papa Museum

Wellington - Parliament Building

Wellington - Beehive Building

View from Hotel in Wellington

We travelled down to Wellington via some lovely countryside and stopped off for a coffee right beside a cheesecake shop - well we had to visit ended up buying a Banoffee Cheesecake and they gave us a Zesty Lemon one for free! We managed to eat the lemon one on the way down and kept the other one for another day. They were superb. Arrived in Wellington to a beautiful day. Found our Motel without too much trouble my map reading is something else! We are on the 5th floor and fortunately they have a lift. The room has superb views out over the bay but unfortunately no bath! Yesterday we did all the tourist bits in Wellington as it was a lovely day we walked for miles left the room at 9am and didn't return till 6pm - are we tourists or what! We visited the Beehive - seat of parliament here and did a tour which took over an hour which was very interesting but a tad long. Te Papa is their museum and we walked around this for 3 hours. This was all free so well used by visitors and NZ's alike.

Today it is duller and we are having to wear long trousers a vest top and a fleece but hey its nice to have a respite from the sun! We are doing the remaining tourist bits today and shopping and heading off North tomorrow.