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We arrived in New Zealand’s capital city to find it had a far more bohemian feel than Auckland. With little planned to do we wandered around the streets getting to know the place when we bumped into Jermaine from the amazing Flight of the Conchords. After seeing Kenny at a shop in Melbourne we have decided it must be our fate to meet all local celebrities on our trip, although as before we were too cool/scared to introduce ourselves so no pictures I’m afraid.

Wellington is a LOTR nerd’s paradise; even my hairdresser was giving me tips on where to go to see locations used in the films. Instead of following in the footsteps of young Frodo we contended ourselves with a visit to the Weta Workshop where all of the film’s special effects were created. At least here we posed with a few local celebrities and got to see some great props from Peter Jackson’s archive of films, all the way back to the legendary Bad Taste. A visit to the great Te Papa (New Zealand’s natural history museum) finished off our stay and our time in the North island. The Interislander ferry smoothly sailed us across the Tasman sea and over to Picton in the south. The scenery between the two islands was amazing as were the pods of dolphins that swam along with us from time to time.