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The Wellingtonista / January 2008

The Wellingtonista is a blog about Wellington - New Zealand's capital.

February 2008 | December 2007
    • Te Papa turns TEN
      • Wholly schmolly, has it really been 10 years ... yes, it has! In my early days in Wellington it was a goal of my ex-wife and I to at least stay in Wellington for the opening of Te Papa .. and now, here we both are able to celebrate its 10th Birthday.
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      • te-papa

        • Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • summer city
      • For some of the smallest Wellingtonistas the most important part of the council's Summer City festival has finished with the end of Fairy Trina's wildly popular run of Enchanted Tales on Saturday. And this evening marked the end of a series of pretty interesting evening Gardens Magic events with a gig by OdESSA. But fear not - there's still lots more excitement for everyone between now and the end of March when the festival wraps up.
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      • events

    • Random Art Story, Two
      • Next in our series of overlooked Wellington public art is this beauty here to the right. If you've not seen it before I'd be extremely surprised, because it's plonked pretty much squarely opposite the Lido, somewhere seeming to always be awash with punters tipping the usual variety of liquids and solids into themselves.
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      • art

    • These are the fixtures of your neighbourhood
      • One of the things about living in a great city like Wellington is that there are a hell of a lot of things to take for granted. I mention this because while listening to Don McGlashan in Civic Square the other day he mentioned that Auckland doesn't really have any civic art. I'm not sure that's entirely true... But, in the spirit of parochial one-upmanship I thought I'd bring you some of Wellington's oft-overlooked art and sculpture.
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      • sculpture
      • civic-square

        • Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Coffee in Newtown?
      • Can anybody help me locate a decent coffee in Newtown during these interminable public holidays? Peoples’ is shut until Monday, as is the café at the Med. The only option I have located thus far is Eva Dixon’s at the Zoo (which was a lovely walk in the sun) but resulted in a small latté in a large takeaway cup topped by prodigious amounts of froth, cost me $5.20 including the surcharge, and tasted like filth. So, tomorrow I need a better option. Any ideas?
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      • newtown
      • restaurants-and-bars
      • coffee

        • Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


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