NZ: Welly (Take 2) to Napier
Our ferry trip was uneventful though we did spot a pod of dolphins in the distance, and we headed off to our accommodation via a trip to the supermarket. Anja had a family friend connection who’d offered to put us up for 2 nights, which was very kind of them, especially as Anja had never met either of them! We turned up to dinner being cooked for us which was an added, unexpected bonus. Our room even had its own bathroom – bliss! We spent the following day doing a self-guided ‘highlights’ tour of Wellington – we walked into town through the Botanic Gardens down to the harbour, spent 2 hours in the Te Papa museum (where this time I actually stayed and absorbed information from the Gallipoli exhibition – which is really very good, though did leave me with a huge sense of sadness. It’s easy to forget that whilst your country is having its own wars, other countries are suffering similar losses. And also crazy to think that NZ, even though it’s the other side of the world, had to