Wellington!
The city closest to us. Amazing, beautiful and clean. Busses. trams, cars, bikes, motorbikes, skateboards, pedestrians; yep, any means of transport available and it works!!! The entrances to buildings are just that, entrances. It's not the homes of lost and destitute souls littered with cardboard boxes and old bedding. There is, however, a bum! One! And he's known to all here. Been here as long as most can remember - I've seen the chap, but didn't have a camera with me at the time to get a shot!!! WIl get one soon!

The city is littered with benches, parks and spots where people have coffee, smokes and lunch breaks. The traffic is moderate to NOTHING!! In front of Telecom I tried getting a shot of some traffic but the odd one or two that came by just missed the camera!! :-) Yep, peak times there's more traffic, but not even closely matched to what we're used to in Cape Town, not even to mention that nightmare in Gauteng!!!!!

The centre of the the Wellington Waterfront

Close to the Intercontinental Hotel - the brown glass building on the right...

Buildings around Post Office Square

The Telecom offices where Niel now works in the HR department's IT support

With your back to Lambton Harbour this is the view into the city centre...

WE GOT THE KEYS TODAY!!!!!!
and obviously we took the opportunity to take some basic stuff there so long and managed to get some inside photos.
This here being the Main bedroom with en-suit bathroom and study/walk-in dressing room, or whatever else we feel like doing with all this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The en-suite dresser/study

The en-suite bathroom

Spare bedroom 2...

Spare bedroom 3

Hall way

Open plan dining room/lounge from the kitchen

The entrance

The wood burner in the lounge with bay window at the back for sunny afternoon reading!!!

Hout! Hout! Alles is hout!!!!

This is spare Bedroom 1 of 3 with own patio west facing for afternoon sun...

Fortunately the architects also added a kitchen! Most helpful when entertaining guests!! The house comes standard with oven, stove, fridge, wahing machine and tumble dryer - we'll have to store our own when the container arrives!!!

The main bathroom of the house...

Soon, our new house in the hills!!!
Moving in on the 24th of this month, our House in the Hills!!!
The Deck from the back

Walkway from the back yard

View of the garages, studio and storage area

Paving infront of garages

The front...

From the back paddock

The back yards

The RVR Club!! So cheap, so cool, so 2nd hand, but what an awesome little AWD!!! The following is a series of RVR's of the 3 families each with their RVR's. Tiny & Esme also drive a RVR and so does Paulus & Saskia - all ex SA!! :-) Spot the pattern??


Niel & Ilse arrive in Wellington with their RVR to give me a lift back home - they just needed an excuse to drive around!!! :-) You know what it's like to buy a new car!!

Sonja at the "testing station" with Henk's new RVR

3 Families, 3 RVR's - all EX SA... Starting to see the pattern?? :-)

Henk, now the proud owner of a RVR!! No house or garage yet, but hey, he's mobile!!!! And besides, you can take the back seats out and sleep in the back :-)

Last but not least, our own RVR on Tatahi Beach. Tiny's Isuzu Big Horn next to it - his other car also a RVR!! Go figure. On this beach, as many other, there are demarcated areas where you can drive up to your "picnic" spot on the beach and park right there!!!