30SantLlorenc: Queen's Wharf

Another beautiful day - that's three in a row! I took the train into Wellington to wander around Queen's Wharf for a good share of the day. Queen's Wharf is, as you'd expect, on the Wellington waterfront and it's full of small shops and tony restaurants as well as a couple of really nice museums.
The best part of the wharf, for me anyway, is the fact that even in the middle of a workday it is crammed with people. It's winter here, but that doesn't stop Kiwis from taking full advantage of a nice day. The wharf - which stretches about a mile, maybe a little more - was jammed with runners in shorts and T-shirts, rollerbladers, skateboarders and walkers as well as a lot of people just sitting on benches reading or having a coffee. There were even a couple of people lying in the grass working on their suntans, which I found pretty amazing given the fact that I was wearing jeans, two pairs of socks, two T-shirts, a shirt and a hoodie to keep warm. I think all those years living in Florida wimpified me :-)
I met up with Elena at the train station around 4:30 p.m. and we went to check out a house in the Thorndon section of Wellington... a cute two-bedroom place that would be great for two people but is, I think, a little too small for four. We'll go see another place Wednesday, a three-bedroom house outside the city about halfway between Porirua and Wellington in Lower Hutt.
Wellington is still trying to get back to normal after last week's storm. The storm washed out two sets of railroad tracks so a lot of people who normally take the train to work have to drive and that's been creating some enormous traffic jams. Fortunately, it didn't affect the tracks from Porirua to Wellington so I have no trouble getting into and out of the city.