windy welly

from auckland to wellington: wellington is a much nicer city, full stop. wellington has great parks and a beautifully developed downtown area and pedestrian alleys and the bay is clean and a joy to walk around. the one downside is that wellington is windy. very windy. insanely windy. i had 6 days in and about wellington and did a little of this and a little of that and a lot of relaxing. maureen put me up in her cute little apartment in eastbourne (across the bay from wellington) and then the two of us stayed a few days in plimmerton (a place she was house-sitting for a co-worker). i took the ferry into wellington and cruised the town, hiked up to mt. victoria, read, drank coffees, baked maureen cookies and a ginger cake and generally just hung out. it was great!

view of downtown from mt. victoria...

wellington looks an aweful lot like sf in some places... except that the cars are on the wrong side of the street...