Sunday 4 October 2009

Weekend in Wellington(s)

We have been to Wellington the past 4 days and forthe first time realised that going South is COLD. It was as windy as Orkney on a bad day even if it was sunny at the same time. The scenery is great and the cable car ride to the top of the town saved an uphill struggle - should be part of Stromness Development plan! It was also the main Wellington festival week dedicated to wearable art - some weird outfits!


The reason we went so far in winter was to attend the Vineyard National Conference and we really enjoyed it. The main speaker was Christy Wimber from the USA - she was as the same conference as us in Edinburgh in the 80s and we ended up right next to her in the down town backpackers hotel - she even beat us to the bar after the evening session.
We had a really good visit to Ann & David Heath (Ann is from Papay) for a coffee which took all day we found so much to chat about we were still there for a lovely evening meal. Thankfully we didn't need to visit Geordie Fergusson who is in charge of the British Embassy in Wellington (John Fergussons cousin).








We are now heading back North and the rain is coming down in buckets thankfully we have wellies in the car - it has been loads of rain all week really even when we nipped out at Taupo to look at Karen Aim's memorial bench in the town centre. She is well remembered by everyone you speak to and they all seem to know where Orkney is. The weather may be attrocious but the welcome is warm and we even got free internet at the last backpackers hostel because we were missionaries!

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