From South to North
22-11-2010
What an impressive boat ride from Picton on the South Island to Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, on the North Island! The Interislander takes you for about 50 New Zealand Dollar from the South island to the North island, over the cook street, in about 3 hours, the boat goes slow, it is only about 90 km. The boat is a big cruise ship with a bar, a restaurant a cinema and several decks to enjoy the journey from.
Some say it must be one of the most beautiful ferry rides in the world. I find the big see, and also the Cook street, makes me feel so tiny! We sat on the deck, chatted to people, enjoyed the sun! We had to wait so long for the sun to come out, but now it was here, and it made the ferry ride even better.
Also lots of bikers came in. Trust me, the hells angels look like school girls next to them. Facial tattoos, leather, drinking. I was very intimidated by them. Although we had nothing to do with them and all was fine. It was one on=f these situations that you do not want to look at them but at the same time are fascinated and cannot stop checking them out…
Later that week I found out a whole lot more about biker gangs in New Zealand.
Around 5 we were dropped of at our backpackers hosten (Nomads) in Wellington. We had a good room and the location was perfect. We went out for the hostel meal for 4 nzd, it was horrible, but we had fun. Met up with the same drinkers as the night before in Kaikoura had 1 glass of wine in town and headed wisely off to bed.
The next day we went to the Museum. And this is not to be missed!!! Te Papa.
I never spend so much time in a museum. Well maybe in the ‘Tropen Museum” in Amsterdam. Te Papa is New Zealand’s national museum, it is very interactive and fun. One day here teaches you more than one month at school. The exhibitions are about everything. The geology, biology. About nature and the people, about New Zealands history and Culture. I absolutely loved it. And it was for free! The full name of the museum is ‘Te Papa Tongarewa’ and it literally means ‘container of treasures’
After the museum we chilled in the park, bought some sushi (sushi here is cheap and fab!) and walked around for a while. For dinner we cooked a steak in the kitchen of the backpackers hostel and made all hungry spaghetti with tomato sauce eating backpackers very jealous.
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