Day 12 Today in Wellington is our tourist day. We get out of the hotel reasonably early, wanting to make the most of the time we have, and have planned a rough guide to what we want to see and do today. We start by walking down Willis Street towards the Cable Car Street, stopping at a few shops along the way, and get to the Cable Car Station at about 11am. A return trip is $6, and you are taken from the shopping district up to the botanical gardens at the to...

Day 11 We leave the hotel this morning at about ten, nice and leisurely. Today is our shopping day in Wellington, we have the game tonight, and tomorrow we will do the touristy bits. For breakfast, a bargain, $6 full breakfast at Murphy's. I'm not sure what it is with all the Irish bars here in Wellington. After walking round for a short while, it's apparent that Wellington is a very different prospect to Nelson. It's a big city, sprawling off in a number of...

Day 10 A reasonably early start today, as once again, we have a travel day, this one shouldn't be too bad though, once we get into town, we have about 2 - 3 hours on a bus to Picton ,and then get the Interislander ferry across the Cook Strait to Wellington. The bus trip flies past, mostly because I manage to sleep through the majority of it, but I think because it's a familiar trip, basically the reverse of what we did coming into Nelson a few days ago, excep...