Kia Ora from Wellington!!

Its been so long since I wrote a post on this blog... been busy with life in general and a couple of BIG changes. The latest one resulting in us moving to Wellington, New Zealand! Kia Ora (in the title of this post) means "Hi" in the native Maori language.

Its a temporary re-location for an assignment from S's office. S has been busy at work since day 1 and so N and I have been doing our own exploring around town. Its a beautiful place - Wellington!! It is a very compact area, the Central Business District and so we have been walking around a lot.
And its cold too, about 12 to 14 degrees C during the day, lower at night! The wind drops the temp a couple of degrees down further. But the sights around are beautiful, you get all kinds of landscapes and topography in a small area. We have a harbour, a bay, hills (loads of 'em), bustling downtown streets and cafes - lots of them too.

Here are some pictures from our strolls around - these are mostly from the 50 mm lens, will take some from my other one and put those up too.

The various sights of the city!

One of the many well laid out roads

The city is bright and vibrant! 

Lively at night too.

Starbucks is here...

                                                     But the local favourite is Mojo, in fact someone said "We don't like Starbucks around here!" 

Lots of scooters around...

And the public transport network is awesome! 

Colourful and creative

Of course Indian food is omnipresent and one of the best I have had outside India!

How could Calendar girls be far behind? ;) They are omnipresent too! 

Some great architecture

N's been having fun in the open sunny spaces

More from NZ later on...  Happy Wednesday!