A while back we went out to a restaurant called Hia Kai,
which serves modern versions of traditional Maori food. Some of the flavours
were a bit out there, and I wasn’t a big fan of the mussel-flavoured ice cream,
but it was definitely a new experience. We got three dessert courses – here’s
the last one.
We checked out the terracotta warriors exhibition at Te Papa museum. I didn’t know much about Chinese history so it was an interesting topic to learn more about.
We got a free pass to the zoo through our
friend Hayden. As well as all the standard animals, we saw the Kea (a parrot
native to New Zealand) and a Dingo. The signs warning
children against climbing over the fences were pretty hilarious.
Next up was the Newtown festival, a street party across ten different streets, with all sorts of crafts,
food and drink on sale. We managed to come away with gin, port and limoncello.
Finally, we checked out a concert in the
Wrights Hill Fortress, which was built in the Second World War as a gun
emplacement to protect Wellington from invasion by Japan. The acoustics were
pretty unusual.
