Yesterday we went to the Botanical Gardens here. This park is on top of a large hill and overlooks the entire harbor. It is an awesome view. The gardens themselves are spread out over many trails--all of them have some steep slope. Houses here are build on every hillside. It is hard to find a house *without* some sort of view. You also have to be careful about selecting your rentals because if they don't talk about parking in the advertisement then you probably have to park on the street and take a 40' vertical switch back to your front door.
We're still staying in the "serviced apartment" provided by our relocation. It is nice having a daily maid, but it is a smallish place. There are shops of about every variety within a block of our building. However you do have to get out while they are open because they pretty much close by 6 everyday. Amy says that Wellington is the smallest big city she's ever seen. A "suburb" here may only have 100 houses with 2-3 basic necessity shops. The whole metro area is only about 400,000 folks with only 180,000 in the city itself. Yet it has 5 train lines and scads of bus lines and large downtown center and all the arts/entertainment you'd expect in a much larger city.
There are 2 playgrounds in walking distance, both right on the harbor edge. There are not many "beaches" in the area, but we've managed to get to one. The water is cold enough that only the kids really play in it. The tides here are very slight so the currents are not very strong. Most of the near coast line is mix of rocks and crags.
We may do some shopping today or we may explore the trains. We're not sure yet. Talk to you all again soon!
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