att göra en resa...: First days on the south island

From my last post we have experienced a couple of days in the capital, Wellington. It has been named “Windy Welly” for an obvious reason, superstrong winds and pouring rain (lame). So obviously we did not take a lot of pictures of Wellington since we want to keep up the illusion that it always is fantastic weather during our trip, haha.

It was a nice city though, but nothing special. We visited “Weta cave” in order to have my dose of daily nerdiness fulfilled. I have known about Weta Workshop since I was 12 and saw “behind the scenes”of the Lord of the Rings extended version 20 times (I should really stop writing about Lord of the rings here, such a doooork, love it though). It was really nice to finally visit their place and also Erik thought it was really interesting to hear how they worked and made stuff (or he is just being a very supporting boyfriend). You can read about them here: https://www.wetanz.com/

We took the ferry to the south island on Friday, very smooth process of three hours and just a weee seasick. We had no plan where to camp for the night when we arrived at 18.00 but decided on a camping spot that was pretty close by. Turned out we needed to drive on windy, steep roads again but man was it worth it. Soooo pretty. Stayed here two nights. Even though it was in the middle of nowhere it was a hidden hotspot for a lot of Kiwis so very popular beach. But looking at the pictures

one can imagine why!