Love for Wellington
1. Don’t leave less than an hour before the train does if you’re walking and it’s more than 3 miles. I almosed missed the train, and ended up pretty much sprinting the last half mile. At 6 in the morning.
2. There are lots of things to buy in Wellington. Most of them are expensive. Some of them look like food.
3. Wellington has bagel shops! decent ok, yummy good bagel shops! expensive, but I got a dozen bagels plus two jar things of flavored cream cheese for 20 bucks. I went to wholly bagels at… willis and… hm, don’t remember the cross street- it’s in the mid hundreds, though, I think. It’s across a side street from a colorado shop, or about a block or two out from the old bank shoping center thingy.
which brings me to
4. There is a Lush shop in Wellington. Why did no one tell me? the fact that I haven’t got a bathtub, so can’t use half the neato stuff they sell has nothing to do with anything. I now have deep seated need for yummy smelling conditioner collection. And shampoo bars. And bath bombs. And about a dozen other things I can’t afford, and actually didn’t talk myself into buying.
Right, but ignoring all that sill stuff, I actually had a great time. Saw the (free) museum of city and sea, about a floor and a half of (free) te papa, a small portion of the really neat (and free) botanical gardens, which I think have got to be a must for anyone who goes to Wellington. I also think it’d ba a great place to hike around if you were going to, say, do kili. All those nice dirt paths, with rather unlikely virtical-ness. great practice.
Really tho? I learned that Palmerston North is a hick town (already knew), very like Wyoming, and Wellington, on first impression, anyway, seems to be the spawn of New York City and San Fransisco, who grew up playing with seatle, before smoking a lot of pot and running away from home. It’s got a big city look, and kinda a big city feel, but… wow, people move slow there. They walk slowly, and move slowly, and seem friendly, but I’m not sure if that’s because I sound like walking money or they’re like that normally.
But onto my list of cities I could live in goes wellington. And I only saw about 5% of it. Imagine how crazy I’ll be when I actually spend some real time there. When I’m not exhausted.
I’ll chuck in some photos when I finish the roll.
j.
Tags: Travel, Wellington
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