11.11.09 - 12.11.09 Windy Wellington

Wellington is a small city but it's by no means lacking in cosmopolitan goings on with loads of restaurants, bars and art galleries. Even on the street we see some excellent wall graffiti and other quirky artistic statements like these woollen hearts which someone has decided to weave on this otherwise dull fencing.

They certainly brighten up the place. We spend a couple of nights here before catching the ferry across the Cook Strait to Picton in the South Island and end up using most of our time in the excellent Te Papa National Museum of New Zealand.

a stuffed kiwi at Te Papa

a Moari carving at Te Papa- the eyes in Moari carvings are made of Paua shells