Travelblog! - Update 2

What’s up, fellow citizens?

We arrived two days ago, and until now, we have only been checking out the city downtown. My résumé is that Wellington is a pretty, modern city with skyscrapers and cosy small houses. But this wasn’t like a typical, American skyscraper-city. The culture downtown was so down to earth, so peaceful, so friendly and gentle. A lot of nice restaurants, cafés and clubs; I promise, behind every corner, there was a place for you to go taking a nice little cup of coffee, eating an extraordinary dinner or just party as if it was 2012. We met a couple of funny, drunk guys that told us about some places to check out and they also presented some funny facts about New Zealand:

New Zealand is known to have the loosest slot machines in the Pacific Rim!
New Zealand is like England, without the attitude!
They drive on the left side – like the British, and Lindsey Lohan.
They say it’s so windy there because of all the crap coming from the part where the government buildings lie...
Oh, we had a good laugh. It was a nice surprise and I hope for more of those!

A fellow interest all of us have is beautiful nature. So we had planned to go looking up in the mountains first, with the cable-train, which was a pretty and funny little thing; a small train that led straight up in to the mountains. The first thing I noticed, and it was’nt very difficult to notice either, was that the wind was blowing constantly. Not just a little, but a lot! We almost blew of the edge when we went out of the cable-train. We went looking on a beautiful lake with a cute little waterfall, and the view over the city was pretty good.


The cable-train!


This was the view towards the south...


... and this was to the north

On the way down, we were supposed to take the cable-train down, but it was closed. Our guide turned on his travel-radio, and listened to the news. There we found out that there had been a small earthquake that we didn’t notice, which had put the power supply down. This wasn’t an emergency though, we got to borrow bikes for free so we could get down before the evening came. And that was some experience. It was a special forest with large spaces between each tree, but the trees were large! If don’t think I can explain these experiences in words, you could watch this clip of some of the nature New Zealand offers, and Wellington do actually have the most of these:

100% Pure New Zealand

I found a clip which I think is entertaining as well. You may check it out if you want a laugh:

Funny Travelvideo, Wellington

We visited a museum on the way home. I got to know about the Haka war dance and there I decided that we would go see a Rugby-match to see a dance like that! Also I learned some things about the national flag. New Zealand's flag is blue with four red stars in the free side of the flag, and with the Union Jack in the upper left corner. The flag was New Zealand's official flag by a decision of Parliament in 1902, but goes back to former colonial flag of 1867. The four red stars symbolize The Southern Cross with the stars Acrux, Becrux, Gamma Crucis and Delta Crucis, but without Epsilon Crucis. There are now some discussions about changing flag because some think it’s to lookalike with the British flag – they want their own flag.

 The New Zealand Flag

I’m learning new things everyday!
Got to say nighty’ night now, see you later!