Wellington

It has been 8 years since I last visited Wellington and the weather that day was terrible, cold and windy. Today it was like a different city, the weather was gorgeous and warm and we ended up carrying our coats around all day. For those overseas readers of my blog, Wellington has the nickname Windy Wellington.

We loved the train ride, a 45 minute trip on a very new and clean train. The cost was very reasonable too, a day ticket costing $NZ14. We could have ridden on trains all day with that ticket but we just went return to Wellington. 

                          

A visit to Wellington must include a ride on the Cable Car. It runs from Lambton Quay up to the Botanic Gardens at Kelburn where you have spectacular views of the central business district and across the harbour. At the top there is a Cable Car Museum, an Observatory and of course the Botanic Gardens which were lovely to walk around. 

                          

The city has some lovely buildings even though fires and earthquakes have destroyed many of the early buildings. I particularly liked the Old Bank Arcade & Chambers built between 1899 and 1901.

                          

This building in Cuba Street was different, the pastel colours are not to my taste.

                             

We had lunch on the waterfront and it was lovely to see so many of the locals out enjoying the sunshine. I took a lot more photos of Wellington and there are still many more places to see, so another visit is planned next week. 

To be continued.......