Wellington

Had a rather lengthy train trip down from Auckland yesterday. Up at 615am (easy enough as still slightly time lagged), train leaves at 725am and should have taken 12 hours. It took 14 hours and 5 minutes. Great scenery though and very relaxing, it seemed more of a case of simply managing to get the train to Wellington than anything organised or important. I can see why the kiwis dont use it.

Anyway in Wellington now, stayed in a hostel last night and tonight. Went to the national museum, it's excellent and we were browsing around for atleast 4 hours, not something I usually do. It covered pretty much everything from natural history to immigration and the maori traditions and culture.

Then up the cable car, quick pint in a welsh pub, that's right a welsh pub.

Eating oriental food most nights, there's al lot of seriously authentic places and luckily they're dirt cheap.

Anyway off on the ferry tomorrow (hopefully, they have some strange booking procedures) and the train to christchurch. Tomorrow night and Saturday in Christchurch then train to Greymouth, two day s there then back to Christchurch for a week or so.