Archive for the ‘Places’ Category
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Bevan McCabe, raconteur and man-about-town, is producing a podcast about this fair city. The first episode has just been released and it turned out rather well.
There is more information at the associated Wellington Podcast Blog, but the daring amongst you can just downloaded it directly (16Mb mp3), or subscribe to ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
In my continuing quest to explore as much of my new home city as possible, yesterday I went for a walk around the south Wellington coast with a couple of friends. Starting from Owhino Bay there is a beach-side path that leads around the coast. Actually it is not a ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
For 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 ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
What better use of a long weekend take my girlfriend to Wenderholm Regional Park? And what better way to get there than the new(ish) long-awaited Northern Gateway Toll Road? 4 lanes of brand-new seal followed by a tunnel cutting its way through a inconvenient ridge, a bargain at only $2 ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Another month, another wedding. This time in Hawkes Bay, a beautiful area of the country that I don't visit nearly enough. The reception was held under a marquee in very very nice location, and featured square dancing!
Photos of the event in the gallery.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
I won't bore you with the details, but this passed weekend saw me back in Wellington, back meeting with Steve and Alex, and back participating in geekery - this time at the Wellington Model Train Expo.
The place was filled with fathers taking their children on day trips (that is why ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I spent last weekend at a multi-day birthday party in the Wairarapa - a part of the country that I had never visited before. The Wairarapa reminds me of a slightly more tropical Central Otago, lots of rolling hills and vineyards. The highlight of the trip, at least from a ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I have just returned from a week long trip to Wellington. I like Wellington as a city, it is cleaner and somehow better laid out than the sprawling metropolis that is Auckland, and it also is home to several old friends of mine who I don't see nearly enough of. ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
I spent the weekend in the best way possible - skiing with a group of friends. There were twelve of us there, all jammed into two chalets in Ohakune.
Saturday was an almost perfect day. We had all arrived in batches the previous evening, so we were all ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
On Sunday I participated in the Auckland Round the Bays fun-run, something I have done for the last 5 or 6 years. This is usually one of those things that I agree to do, secretly dread up until the day, then enjoy the experience when it actually arrives, and so ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Last weekend I went along to the Auckland Lantern Festival. Not having been to any of the previous Lantern Festivals, I was under the impression that it was just a bunch of lanterns in a park. What it actually is is a bunch of lanterns in a park, a few ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
A couple of weekends ago I walked the Tamahunga Foot Trail, just north of Warkworth. The track is at the end of a long metaled road just passed the turnoff to the famous Goat Island Marine Reserve. For a fairly out of the way dead-end country road, there is a ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
The weather has been improving in Auckland recently (February is usually the best month around here), so a few friends and I decided to see the sights at Bethells Beach. Auckland is blessed with many fine beaches, Bethells is not one of the most popular but has its own charm. ...
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