Back In The City

After spend a good few weeks gardening, farming and been in places roughly in the middle of know where we were back to life in the city for a few days. On the 15th we check into YHA Wellington and got our tourist caps on. As it was a good afternoon we took the chance to ride the cable car and enjoy a strole around the botanical gardens, the ride was like any other bus or tram ride, just up a really steep hill in a kind of cool old fashioned style cart. Once at the top we had grate views of the city below us and the harbour beyond that. From here we had a romantic strole round the gardens. Nar just jocking can you imagine. We climbed trees, played with sculptures and generally did boy things. After climbing enough trees for the day we took the cart back down and got ready to go out to Might Might, supposedly one groovy pub were beers served by the jug.I say supposedly as after searching long and hard for this pub it appeared to have vanished, so instead we went to the Macs brewery restaurant. This was a good second choice. It was a rather swanky building with some retro deco situated on the waters frond and as for the food well Aldeburgh better watch out as that was some fine fish and chips. Later we wonder around the beach, naturally the capital city has a beach, and watched the lights over the harbour and joggers struggling with the wind. The following day it was off to Parliament where we found an umbrella stuffed in a bin, guess that wind was just too much for someone. Not much to say about the buildings there just one old school imperial design beauty  next to one ugly looking art deco design named the beehive. Less said about that the better. So next we went to the Museum of Wellington, free which was a good start and it contain some kind of interesting exhibitions but over all it was quite empty so we didn't spend long there either.This day hadn't got off the the most enthralling start. But that was all about to change at Te Papa. Another museum but this time a lot more interesting with a vast range on Kiwi related exhibitions form it history, to the arts and from all kinds social aspect to more water based ones. So we spent quite a while here tacking in all it had to offer before ambling back to the hostel along the water front. The following day after seeing all Wellington had to offer we were out of there, getting the ferry at the unreasonable time of 7am. The crossing was plain cursing thanks to the relatively calm seas and with the sun shining it was a most enjoyable crossing with magnificent views of the Queen Charlotte Sounds