Boarding @GreatJourneysNZ#KiwiRail “Northern Explorer” at #Auckland 🇳🇿. This is the departure point for today’s trip across New Zealand’s North Island, all the way down to #Wellington.
One reason for my recent trip down south was to meet with a cousin who has inherited some old family photo albums. Here is one such photo. For residents of Te Whanganui-A-Tara this photo, taken in March 1934 (90 years ago), of the Karori tunnel will be instantly recognisable. Taken by my great-Uncle.
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Remember these? Slowly fading into oblivion, but if you pay attention you can still find quite a few scattered across the footpaths of #Wellington.
We just had to stay to the left, when passing others. #BlastFromThePast#COVID19#Pandemic#Nostalgia
My walkabouts through #Wellington never fail to turn up surprises, often in the form of residential #architecture. Today it was the back streets of the Newtown suburb.
Made all the more legit conducted in an eye-stinging gale. #Photography#NewZealand#UrbanPhotography
Ah, a beautiful Moon Arch, similar to a Moon door in Chinese architecture. But lots of other design features here too, that window bending around a corner is a thing too. Oh, and the floating red gate, to a laundry? Great documentation, and sometimes I think is gets a bit boring here, Ha!
In #Wellington, #NZ, next to the parliament building, the walk icons are a silhouette of #NZ's most famous suffragist, Kate Sheppard, who helped secure the vote for women in 1893. How cool is that! #histodons#womensHist
The crowds singing waiata outside Parliament sing out of longing for the safety and freedom of real people, real humans - and ask more people in to stand together against an unconscionable collective punishment that is worse by the day.
Yeah, I'd say that southerly squall predicted to hit #Wellington as of 3pm has fully arrived, and right on time 😲 Now comes the thunder and lightening. #Weather#NewZealand
@kjsgeo My suburb is very much "I see you like vape shops so we put a vape shop between the vape shop and the vape shop."
There's a scientific explanation for why shops of the same kind cluster together, I forget where I read it. But I comfort myself that there were thousands of yoghurt shops for a short while too.
Sad news that New World Metro at the Wellington Railway Station is closing in March 2024. Lots of people use it: school kids in the morning, office workers getting their breakfast - and their lunches, and those, like me, who are occasionally asked to pick up some bread or tomatoes on the way home. Expensive compared to other supermarkets but was definitely filling a need.
@paulhellyer@leighelse It is absolutely fantastic when I visit friends in Wgton and use the train to go to/from town. I stop to get some wine / cheese etc on my way back to my friends place. Shame that it is closing.
So... just for larks I took my Infrared camera on @airnz flight 680 from #DunedinNZ to #Wellington earlier this morning. The sun was rising but the rivers and mountains really stand out in the IR! #airnewzealandshareme#landscape
