 | Our first (and last) football game, Te Papa
2005-11-20, Wellington, New Zealand. By: thesuhs | | We had an early wake up so we could drive downtown by 7am to catch the UM-OSU game on the Wellington wireless network. Since it was Sunday there was free parking all over the city, and we got a great ... |
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| Nathan's heaven; bad candy is possible
2005-11-19, Wellington, New Zealand. By: thesuhs | | Today was sadly our last day in the south island of New Zealand. We asked for directions to the ferry from the front desk before checking out, and made sandwiches in Trina to hold us over on the 3 hou... |
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 | North Island
2005-05-24, Wellington, New Zealand. By: tati | | When I first got to New Zealand, I was really sad, because I left Australia. Now things are better. New Zealand is a beatiful country, with lovely people and lots to see.
I'm Wellington now, my las... |
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 | Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Hobbits
2004-11-08, Wellington, New Zealand. By: blazza | | Went to Te Papa Museum in Wellington yesterday and learnt quite a bit about the Maori people. Both English and Maori are the official languages of the country fact fans. Best part by far though was ab... |
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| Getting known but leaving
2004-11-06, Wellington, New Zealand. By: blazza | | Didn't make it to the party last night but heard it was pretty shite and the music was dire.
Somehow seem to be known by half the hostel already for simply falling asleep in the lounge on the first... |
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| Yawn yawn
2004-11-06, Wellington, New Zealand. By: blazza | | Had fireworks here last night to celebrate Guy Fawkes which is a strange thing to do here seeing it's not England. For all those that are not English, this was a man 400 or so years ago who placed bar... |
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| New number in Wellies
2004-11-05, Wellington, New Zealand. By: blazza | | Arrived in Wellington 2 hours ago and feel a bit lost and confused and.....well strange.
Flight was OK except the drugs (Rescue Remedy - yes I found it here and some other herbal tablets from the p... |
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 | One Tree To Rule Them All
2005-01-31, Wellington, New Zealand. By: mala | | I'm moving to Wellington. It's beautiful and vibrant and interesting, from the panoramic views of the harbor and skyline to the artistic flourishes in an alley. We promised ourselves a nice dinner, an... |
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 | Good news m'lady! Thou noble prince hath arrived!
2005-01-18, Wellington, New Zealand. By: mattben | | Simpson eh? I'll remember that name! Hello. How are things with everyone? Awesome i hope, things here are good. We went to Huka Falls in Taupo, it was awesome. The river flows so fast, and its like a ... |
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 | Logistics and other fun stuff
2002-02-24, Wellington, New Zealand. By: cyfer13 | | Misadventures of Scott, Chad, and Moses: Volume III,
Chapter 2
Hey everyone. I write to you now, 800km south of Auckland in the city of Wellington. We've made a mad dash to run down to the south i... |
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 | White Water Sledging... Sport or Suicide?
2004-10-30, Wellington, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hello all. This is Paul writing so you can assume from this that I survived the White Water Sledging that Mel spoke of in the last entry. Whilst doing the sledging I doubted that I would survive it to... |
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 | Aotearoa Touchdown
2004-07-04, Wellington, New Zealand. By: Lisa | | Kia ora! Well, we just got home back to the house in Wellington an hour ago after 27 hours of flying over a 46 hour time period. Whew!!! It all went reasonably well though. All the flights except ... |
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 | Ferry ride from North to South....
2004-04-16, Wellington, New Zealand. By: marisaAusi | | SO today we woke up real early, said goodbye to Wellington and the rest of the North Island, and hopped on a ferry to Picton, the South Island. The ferry was huge, called the Interislander Cruise...ho... |
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 | Embassy Dissapointment!!
2004-04-15, Wellington, New Zealand. By: marisaausi | | Today we all made it an early start so that we could get over to the embassy and get Sabrinas passport figured out. So we all walked over together, we got lost a few times, but eventually found it. Wh... |
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 | Cable Car
2004-03-19, Wellington, New Zealand. By: liznz | | Took it sorta easy today in Wellington. After an hour of trying, I finally was able to call home and talk to dad a bit.
Then I took the bus to Courtney and Cuba streets. Some funky stores, but no... |
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| Settled In
2004-03-19, Wellington, New Zealand. By: liznz | | In Wellington now, "settled in" for a couple days. Quite nice, really. Yesterday (18 March), I slept until almost 9, and walked to Old St Paul's cathedral in the rain. Then New St. Paul's (huge!) a... |
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| Nelson to Wellington
2004-03-17, Wellington, New Zealand. By: liznz | | Happy St Patrick's Day! Not that I'm celebrating, I don't even have any green with me :(
Nelson was not quite what I'd thought it would be, but it was nice. I'd had a picture in my mind of a Kiwi... |
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 | Wellington
2004-02-09, Wellington, New Zealand. By: kelen | | Wellington (Sunday - Tuesday)
We stopped off outside NZ's capital city at an outlet mall to stock up
on the special merino wool clothing - Icebreakers. Then it was off to
find our hosts David ... |
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| Tickets on their way
2003-12-01, Wellington, New Zealand. By: Lisa | | Really I'm just wanting to test and see if this ejournal is functional, but the latest update on my travel plans is that I now have a beeeee-yootiful blue french visa in my passport, and my tickets ar... |
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| Welcome to my travel journal!
2003-11-25, Wellington, New Zealand. By: Lisa | | Hi all! As some of you will know and some of you won't, in about three week's time I'm heading off overseas for about 8 months to do a semester's university study in Lyon, France, along with travel a... |
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 | Rugby 7's
2003-02-08, Wellington, New Zealand. By: Flyin_Scot | |
About 5 minutes after checking into my room at the hostel, I had
met 4 kiwis down for the rugby...5 mins later I was in the pub and I
somehow managed to stay there for quite awhile! Well the ba... |
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 | Heading South on the North Island
2003-02-05, Wellington, New Zealand. By: djsproule | | We made a three day trip north of Auckland to the incredible Bay of Islands. It was worth the drive to take in the beautiful ocean scenery on a day- long excursion by boat. We found a nice campgroun... |
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| Awaiting our ferry to the South Island
2002-10-31, Wellington, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | The capital of New Zealand is Wellington just on the southern tip of the North Island and that is where Pat and I are currently for a couple days awaiting our ferry journey over to the South Island. W... |
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 | Jumping from city to city
2002-04-11, Wellington, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | April 11th, stayed in the capital city “Wellington, where I visited the Te Papa museum which was beautiful with amazing architecture. Next I took a cable car to the top of the mountain and hiked back ... |
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 | Train crossing Northern Island
2001-03-08, Wellington, New Zealand. By: andreas | | After a nice night out in the bush I got picked up by the Waitomo Shuttle (taxi) at 09.30 this morning. The driver dropped me off in the very small town of Orotohanga. The helpful staff at the informa... |
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