Final wrap up of our NZ visit

We have had an amazing time visiting the South Island, and also a few days in the North at Wellington to mainly visit the WETA workshop.

On Saturday the 29th Nov we flew up to Wellington for a few days to have a look about and visit the WETA workshop.

Wellington did live up to its reputation of being windy. Its a nice city built around a harbor. Most things are easy walking distance from the city centre.

We took a few walks along the harbor. Elizabeth wanted to try what they call white bait. It looks like worms with eyes. It was cooked with egg. Neither of us were a great fan of this.

We took the cable car up the mountain to see the sights and buy more souvenirs :).

Our main objective was to visit the WETA workshop who have lots of special effects and prosthetics used in films such as LOTR. The shop was amazing with lots of expensive models but also prints and other items at reasonable rates. We had orders from family for few things and we also purchased a couple of items for ourselves. I'll link the YouTube video below.

YouTube video of the WETA -- https://youtu.be/Dr2vdk79XrE

The tour took in behind the scenes workshop where they design and make come up with various items for movies.

We had to be up at 3am Tues morning NZ time (12 midnight here in Aus) so we didn't bother sleeping just hanging out for the taxi to take us to the airport. Lucky as lots of A320 planes had been grounded a day earlier due to software issues.

That's a wrap all till out next trip.

Rob & Liz

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