Wellington
May 19, 2009 – 10:51 pmFor a blog called “Life of Andrew”, this site doesn’t actually have a lot about my life. This is partly because I am a cypher with an impenetrable air of mystery and partly because I am very boring. But I have recently moved cities and felt I should mark the occasion.
That’s right, I am now officially a Wellingtonian (well, technically speaking a Poriruite but who is counting?) I was lucky enough to be offered a temporary place to stay by a friend of mine who I knew had had awesome house right on the coast in Plimmeton, so of course I accepted straight away. When I actually came to make the drive from Auckland I was perturbed to find that he had moved into a unit since I was last down. I shouldn’t have worried, this is the view from the “unit”:
It turns out to be a 3 story town house on a cliff overlooking Porirua Harbour. It is a little out of the way, but since I am working from home this suits me fine, so I am now officially paying rent as a long-term flatmate.
My furniture arrived today. Trying to fit a house-load of stuff into two rooms is proving difficult, but it is great to actually have a real bed to sleep in for a change.
Being the capital, Wellington has capital features such as Landscape (with a capital L) which makes the Auckland volcanic cones look like molehills – it is a very pretty city. Unfortunately Wellington also has Weather (with a capital W) – the city does tend to get in the way when the atmosphere decides it needs to be somewhere else. I think I have seen more wind in 2 weeks than I ever saw in Auckland, but the fine days are fantastic and it is certainly dryer in general down here.
It takes time to adjust to a new city, I am still finding out where the useful shops (P.B.Tech has a branch down here!) and facilities are. But so far everything has gone amazingly smoothly.
I think I am going to enjoy Wellington.
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3 Responses to “Wellington”
Glad to hear you managed to settle in without any problems. That is a nice view you have.
By Simon on May 20, 2009
Hey congrats on the move. The view is awesome! Best of luck with the new whatever. By the way, the anti-spam word for this post is “move.” Did you plan that? You mysterious cypher.
By James Wells on May 26, 2009
welcome to Wellie! hope u survive the challenging weather!!
By Tamsin on Jul 23, 2009