windy wellington

new zealand sucks. it’s cold and rainy here. not just cold, not just rainy, but fucking freezing cold and fucking freezing rainy.

why did we leave sydney again? oh yeah, because we tried to change our plans at the last minute and it would have cost us half as much to stay here later. or for good.

despite being cold and rainy, wellington has the plus side of, uh…

the brochures and marketing materials keep repeating the plus that welllington is new zealand’s most english-style city, and that it’s incredibly compact. plus, they keep quoting statistics like, more cafes per capita than new york city, which is pretty fucking easy when you’ve only got like 300k people in an incredibly compact city.

i keep getting lost because i keep walking too far. i look on the map and think “ok, it’s just two more blocks,” and i find that i’ve walked past the two blocks while i’m looking at the map.

are you getting the incredible compactness yet?

there do seem to be a lot of nice little clothing stores with local designers here. hmc found some great stuff which i’m now carrying around. somehow her luggage is getting lighter, while mine gets heavier. maybe i should stop packing so well and offering to carry stuff she can’t fit in.

wellington sits on a large sloping hill that rolls down to the harbor, sort of like hong kong. however, i think wellington has more almost everything per capita than hong kong.

because it’s incredibly…

Posted at December 5, 2004 5:38 PM