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Here's a warning for people who have just got off a plane in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, and jumped in their hire car. As you leave the airport, huge signs direct you to the...
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Just a short drive around the corner from the Karori Bird Sanctuary is the top of Wellington's Botanical Gardens. There is a small tea shop by the car park, and easy access to the Planetarium.
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You can't beat Wellington on a good day. The sun shines down through its little hole in the Ozone layer, a gentle breeze ruffles in from the harbour, the blue sky shows no sign of clouds, and the...
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The Karori Bird Sanctuary is 252 hectares of native New Zealand bush right in the middle of Wellington. Located in the suburb of Karori, the bird sanctuary has been created on land that was once...
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Wellington City almost didn't happen. What is now the capital city of New Zealand was originally nothing more than swampland, and the first people to try and settle the area almost gave up in...
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Evans Bay Road eventually turns into Oriental Parade - the most expensive place to live in Wellington. And it's easy to see why.
On a good day, Oriental glitters like the jewel in...
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Miramar Peninsula used to be an island until an earthquake threw up the land that now connects it to the mainland (that connecting piece of land is now where the airport is located).
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From Wellington Zoo I continued along Adelade Road to the south coast - not just the south coast of the city, but the south coast of the whole North Island.
Across Cook Strait I could make...
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As I drove through Wellington, I was most impressed with the houses. Many of the houses are around 100 years old, but surprisingly, there is no heritage protection on them. If you wanted to, you...
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I let my dodgy hire car coast freely down Mount Victoria along Alexandra Road, which brought me down into the suburb of Newtown.
As well as some interesting houses (some painted in bright...
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The trouble with hire cars is that they can sometimes be like a box of chocolates... sticky and horrible on the inside.
The car I had hired struggled to get up Mount Victoria, the big hill...
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In my mind, the best shop for books about New Zealand and by New Zealand authors is Unity Books, located on Willis Street in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city.
Opened in 1967, Unity...
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Before Borders Books and Music opened its doors in New Zealand's capital city of Wellington in 2007, Dymocks was the undisputed champion of book selling in the city.
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I love the smell of secondhand book stores. It is an old smell, a lingering reminder of print and paper that hangs in the air like a literary blanket. It is a smell to drive most bookworms into a...
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Real Groovy Records has become the main outlet for CDs and music in New Zealand. Located at the top of Queen Street in Auckland and on Abel Smith Street in Wellington, the stores offer the...
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