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Collection of 57 travel stories from Wellington, New Zealand. Written by your friends on the road.

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Wellington
2009-04-12, Wellington, New Zealand. By: edculpin

Today was our last day on the North Island of NZ. The time has gone by so fast! We spent it in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, which is right at the bottom of North Island. We all walked ar...

 
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Nelson to Wellington
2008-09-30, Wellington, New Zealand. By: siqueira

I left south Island and by boat, acrossing the wonderful Cook Straight, got Wellington, the Captal of NZ, is a small city plenty of buildings, a huge and amanzing Museum, that I spent around 2 hours t...

 
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Taupo and Wellington
2008-06-06, Wellington, New Zealand. By: juchem

Today is my last day in the North Island. I'm still in Wellington, going to Picton tomorrow morning, then to Nelson! I've been to Taupo, trying to do the Tangariro Crossing, but the snowy weather was ...

 
Traveler eme86

Travelling to the north island
2008-04-15, Wellington, New Zealand. By: eme86

Today we went to the north island, staying the night at Wellington. We got the Cook Straight ferry across (whilst eating chocolate cake...) When we arrived in Wellington we were a bit shocked by sudde...

 
Traveler lizzy86

Blenheim then over to Wellington
2008-04-15, Wellington, New Zealand. By: lizzy86

On sunday we drove to Blenheim, a place famous for all its vineyards so we got ourselfs booked onto one of the tours for the next day. We were thinking this was probably tours of how they vineyards wo...

 
Traveler franandtom

crap hostel!
2008-02-11, wellington, New Zealand. By: franandtom

i'll try not to bore you too much but basically, tom and i had sworn we would never stay in a base hostel ever again. so of course we ended up staying at base wellington-the yha was full. so after a H...

 
Picture from story Farewell Wellington, hello South Island.

Farewell Wellington, hello South Island.
2008-02-13, Wellington, New Zealand. By: ronnieed

Oh well oh well oh well oh uugh! Today was ferry day but first we had to see more of Wellington. We decided to take the cable car (more like a tram) up to the top of the botanical gardens and take a w...

 
Picture from story Wellington and the Tim Wallis Tour.

Wellington and the Tim Wallis Tour.
2008-02-12, Wellington, New Zealand. By: ronnieed

We set out early for Wellington, keen to get there in time or breakfast. Ronnie had spotted a recommendation in the lonely planet for a café in Scorching Bay. The place we were heading for was called ...

 
Picture from story Not So Windy in Wellington

Not So Windy in Wellington
2008-01-19, Wellington, New Zealand. By: catwill

Left Napier mid morning and travelled down through Masterton to Wellington. As we were nearing Wellington we could see the city and harbour from some considerable distance. The first thing that we n...

 
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Meeting the relatives
2007-12-07, Wellington, New Zealand. By: hamsouth

Our next port of call was Wellington where we spent the next four days visitng Jans Mums cousin and family(none of which we had met before). Well what can i say they really looked after us the whole t...

 
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17th august
2007-08-17, Wellington, New Zealand. By: amy4rory

Hey guys Drove from Palmerston North to Wellington in the morning. We went to the information centre to find out about Lord of the Rings tour in the area and other activities available to us. We de...

 
Traveler ajmartino

To Isengard we come we come!
2006-12-12, Wellington, New Zealand. By: ajmartino

Well yesterday we ventured on yet another amazing journey. Our shpecky siver van rolled up and took us to Helms Deep, Rivendell, Isenguard, Peter Jackson's home town and, most importantly, the ROAD!!!...

 
Traveler ajmartino

Wellington
2006-12-10, Wellington, New Zealand. By: ajmartino

Today we reached Wellington, after spending a rather relaxing morning sipping tea and eating biscuits on benches outside river valley lodge looking out onto native forest and waterfalls. Wellington...

 
Picture from story Freezing our butts off in Wellington

Freezing our butts off in Wellington
2007-06-13, Wellington, New Zealand. By: sarahnstu

After we'd dropped the camper off we decided to have a wander around Wellington, we got as far as an Irish bar and dived in there as we were so cold. After a few drinks there we went back to the backp...

 
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All Blacks!
2007-06-09, Wellington, New Zealand. By: sej

Went to All Blacks match. Brilliant. Will write later. Its 4.22am now. Out in Wellington. A really good night. Got to go/ Sej xx

 
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The other side of the world
2007-05-23, Wellington, New Zealand. By: cmciver

We spent our remaining days in Australia in Sydney enjoying some of the sites we've previously seen such as Manly Beach, Bondi and Circular Quay. But it was soon time for us to head to New Zealand and...

 
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Wellington to River Valley
2007-04-25, Wellington, New Zealand. By: claire137

We got up early to get the ferry to Wellington and met Ben (a friend from back home who is at university in Wellington) when we got there. He showed us round some of the city and the museum which is r...

 
Traveler gtontour

Welcome to Middle Earth
2007-05-10, Wellington, New Zealand. By: gtontour

Hello guys and gals from a whole different hemisphere!!! For just over two weeks we have been in New Zealand - the land of the ring of power and are having an absolute blast in 'The Beast' (the nic...

 
Picture from story Capital City...

Capital City...
2007-03-23, Wellington, New Zealand. By: cherryloo

Its another long day driving down the cost to Wellington. Its the last stop on the north Island before we get to the beautiful south. On first impressions it seems really modern and lively, unlike our...

 
Traveler wilsol01

Getting some culture in Wellington
2007-02-05, Wellington, New Zealand. By: wilsol01

Wellington is the captial of New Zealand (for those that don't know) and so we decided to visit the main museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, whilst we were here. Here we found out about the early European...

 
Traveler gareth

Back to the Mainland
2007-01-29, Wellington, New Zealand. By: gareth

Our last day in the South Island got off to a great start. We woke up to sunshine, a more than welcome change, and savoured a few last, cramped minutes before getting up and getting ready for the fer...

 
Traveler gareth

Life as a Housewife
2006-12-18, Wellington, New Zealand. By: gareth

From the moment I left Auckland 3 weeks ago, I was in a state of almost constant motion. Driving from one location to the next, never staying in the same location for more than a night, with the excep...

 
Traveler gareth

Pebbles Defeated
2006-12-13, Wellington, New Zealand. By: gareth

Waking to the sound of rain, I felt there was not much need to get too active. I had a bowl of cereal then jumped straight in the car, or rather stayed straight in the car, and headed off on my way be...

 
Traveler mhollier

North Island Action!
2006-12-12, Wellington, New Zealand. By: mhollier

Arrived in Wellington on Monday and already its so much warmer! Its actually quite nice to be somewhere that's a little bit more populated! We have enjoyed walking around the local sites, mainly the s...

 
Traveler jaamnz

To Isenguard we come we come!
2006-12-12, Wellington, New Zealand. By: jaamnz

Well yesterday we ventured on yet another amazing journey. Our shpecky siver van rolled up and took us to Helms Deep, Rivendell, Isenguard, Peter Jackson's home town and, most importantly, the ROAD!!...

 
Traveler jaamnz

Wellington
2006-12-10, Wellington, New Zealand. By: jaamnz

Today we reached Wellington, after spending a rather relaxing morning sipping tea and eating biscuits on benches outside river valley lodge looking out onto native forest and waterfalls. Wellingto...

 
Traveler jaamnz

Wellington
2006-12-10, Wellington, New Zealand. By: jaamnz

Today we reached Wellington, after spending a rather relaxing morning sipping tea and eating biscuits on benches outside river valley lodge looking out onto native forest and waterfalls. Wellingto...

 
Traveler jaamnz

Wellington
2006-12-10, Wellington, New Zealand. By: jaamnz

Today we reached Wellington, after spending a rather relaxing morning sipping tea and eating biscuits on benches outside river valley lodge looking out onto native forist and waterfalls. Wellingto...

 
Traveler lizelliott

Seeing the sights of Wellington
2006-10-19, Wellington, New Zealand. By: lizelliott

On Thursday after a long drive, we arrived in Wellington. Our first visit was to the parliament buildings. We went inside, were scanned for weapons and bombs, and then went to spectate on an actual de...

 
Picture from story Fun in Welly!

Fun in Welly!
2006-09-03, Wellington, New Zealand. By: andrewjeff

We flew to the Capitol city of Wellington for a quick weekend with our dear friends Jackie & Anna. They used to live there so they were the perfect tour guides. I don't think we missed single pub in...

 
Picture from story The trek back North

The trek back North
2006-05-07, Wellington, New Zealand. By: Francesca

Okay, so this is probably going to be one of my last travelling updates *sob* With 8 days to go, there's not much else for me here as I'm now back in the North Island and just making a beeline for...

 
Traveler archandfi

Ferry-Te Papa
2006-05-24, Wellington, New Zealand. By: archandfi

We boarded the ferry at Picton for the three hour crossing to Wellington on North Island. The Interislander really puts CalMac to shame, with the lounges and facilities more like an upmarket stylish h...

 

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