Wild, Weird, Windy Wellington
I visit New Zealand’s capital city: a cultured and beautiful town assaulted endlessly by nature’s forces at ‘the head of Māui’s fish’
Updated on 3 October 2022, with extra material at the start.
AT the end of September 2022, I revisited Wellington, which was living up to its ‘windy Wellington’ reputation with awful spring weather.
I managed to get an Airbnb in the embassy-studded hilltop suburb of Khandallah for only NZ $60 a night.
On the 29th, I went for a hike along the lovely Kaiwharawhara Bridle Track, which runs between Khandallah and the nearby, equally hilly suburb of Kaiwharawhara.
On Friday, I went to a play called Sonder at Bats Theatre, a really funny and enjoyable “semi-interactive performance” set in a cafe where you had to wander around and talk to people as…