#Auckland 🇳🇿 to #Wellington by train means a full day of travelling. Yet time passes quickly with all these options on the table, be it, literally, this delicious cheese platter (together with some New Zealand Merlot) or, figuratively, with these vistas from the fresh air car. 😊
The #Auckland 🇳🇿 to #Wellington “Northern Explorer” is, I’m told, famous for its viewing options. And indeed: in addition to the seat cars with their large panorama windows, there’s a viewing platform for some (very) fresh air feeling with just a set of handrails, and the roof.💨
The #Auckland 🇳🇿 to #Wellington#GreatJourneysNZ “Northern Explorer” climbs up to National Park station (825 metres a.s.l.) by means of the complex “Raurimu Spiral”, a line development with loops and hairpin bends, reminding me of the #Albula line in Switzerland.
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