Brushing up on NZ lingo.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wellington Waterfront
Wellington's beautiful waterfront, where we enjoyed some specialty gelato. Valerie and Kim met while studying abroad in Israel together, and Kim is in Wellington finishing her master's degree. Reunion in New Zealand!
Te Papa
Appreciation of photography is quite a recent addition to my life, which began about a year ago when I enrolled in an International Center of Photography course and invested in a Nikon point-and-shoot camera. Since then I've read up on world-renowned photographers, but I had never heard of Brian Blake nor seen his exquisite photojournalism, which was most often published in Life and National Geographic. He is New Zealand's best known and most successful photographer, and an exhibition of his work, Brian Blake: Lens on the World, was on at the Te Papa museum in Wellington. Blake's work takes you all over - Europe and China, Moscow and the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia - and it was inspiring to see so much of the world through his creative lens.
Fidel's Cafe
Wellington is the mecca for cafe culture, and I am a firm believer the only way to learn the secrets of a city is to go straight to the locals. Lucky for me my former Travel + Leisure colleague and good friend Erin is a born-and-raised Welly girl, so when I asked her to recommend a place for a flat white on Cuba Street she turned to Fidel's Cafe.
It's coffee, menu, and muffins did not disappoint, so we went there for brunch - twice!
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