Back in windy Wellington for a night on our back up north to fly to Australia, oddly enough sharing a dorm with a guy from Andover! Cooked up some dinner (ollie said it was the best meal he had ever had im the north island this week) and went out for a wonder. As I lay in my bottom bunk I notice an inscription on one of the wooden slats above me (see pic)......could I be laying in the bed once occupied by the sister of the duchess of Cambridge?....if Pippa mi...

Arrived in Wellington quite late wednesday afternoon, lots of rain! Ollie and I luckily got the last two beds in the hostel......Shame one was on the 3rd floor and the other on the 7th! Went for a nandos, it doesn't taste anything like it does in England, serves us right for going really! Went to the Wellington museum on Thursday, I could have literally spent days in there, it was free too. The stuff about the treaty between the British and native new zeala...