The end of summer

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.