After Pete and Jess had left I spent one last day enjoying the sun and warm weather of Australia as due to me standard lack of planning I would be arriving at the start of the New Zealand winter. I had foolishly assumed travelling to New Zealand would be simple as it was one western country to another. It turns out the airline wouldn't let me board my flight without an onward ticket out of New Zealand. This led to me rushing around the airport to find a computer to buy a ticket on and then rushing around again to find a printer that would work. Eventually I got onto the flight and made it without any more problems to Wellington.
Since my accommodation in Palmerston North wasn't ready for me to move in for another day I spent a day looking around Wellington. However it seems that Easter (yes Easter I am that far behind) is a much bigger holiday over here than back in England. Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, was an utter ghost town with all the shops apart from McDonalds closed. Luckily there were some tourist attractions still open to occupy my day with.
First I took the famous red cable car from the city to the top of a hill overlooking the bay. At the top it turned out there was a plane-arium that was still open and since I had never been to one I decided to give it a go. As well as flying around space it also had a weird animated film about the space race that was incredibly disorientating to watch projected onto the ceiling.
Once I had taken the cable car back into the city I walked around a bit more embracing the cold weather before deciding to find an attraction with a roof and some heating. Luckily the Museum of New Zealand was nearby and free so I spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around and learning what giant squid look like, how crappy earthquakes are and childishly giggling at certain exhibits.
The next day I took a coach to Palmerston North the city (don't know who they are kidding it is a town) that would be my home for the next 3(ish) months. As a perfect welcome it was hammering down with rain when I arrived and when I got to the accommodation there was a sign on the door saying the reception was closed for Easter. Thankfully the sign wasn't completely true and there was a very bored man sitting there who gave me my key and neglected to tell me anything of use. It has to be said that I didn't quite get the sort of "extensive views of the city and surrounding areas" that I was expecting...
At this stage of the blog I was going to take a 3 month break but thanks to my brilliant timing (laziness) I can pretty much carry straight on as today is my last day at work, which is why I am using it to write this blog instead of working.
No comments:
Post a Comment