Rogerson's on the Road

Wellington - the capital of New Zealand and nicknamed Windy Welly.

What a fantastic city - we are staying just outside the city centre at a backpackers called Maple Lodge. For the first time in a while we feel that we are going to stay for a while. This place feels like home, mainly due to the fact that the lodge is full of people that are living and working for sometime in Wellington. A fantastic group of people, although we think that we are possibly the oldest in the place. Nevermind. Most of the folk are working in bars or resturants and Neil has become the unofficial lawyer and careers advisor for the lodge, checking contracts and scanning the job ads.....he has also managed to adopt a 6 foot, 19 year old female, German with pink hair. It must have happened one night when I drank too much box wine (it is so difficult to monitor how much you are drinking with that stuff).

So we have pretty much done all you can do here and have exhausted Windy Welly. We have walked to the top of Mount Victoria, visited the zoo (no kiwi's to be seen), taken the cable car to the Botanical Gardens, and walked the Red Rock coastal path to the seal colony (and saw real live seals in the wild - by the way they stink!). We will be spending my birthday here and then catching the ferry over to the South Island on Thursday 13th October, when we will be starting our journey again after a 9 day stop in Wellington.

Until then.....