Wellington Wrap-Up

Obviously, we like Wellington, and could have spent longer, but other places and sights beckoned. Below are a few miscellaneous pix and observations.

There's a national campaign on against over-inbibing, and nowhere more
conspicuous than in Wellington; with booze prices such as they are, it's hard
to see how anyone could afford to get drunk

We've had great Thai food in places all over...Bangkok, Koh Samui, Redwood City,
San Fran, Oxford, and now Wellington, at Phu Thai Esarn, a northern Thai restaurant
in downtown Welly

Some of the best and richest Thai flavors ever, pictured just the Tom Kha Gai and
green curry; my faith in restaurants at least briefly restored; incidentally, Thai
ingredients, e.g., kaffir lime leaves, galangol root, are available at larger
supermarkets  all over NZ; Thai restaurants easily dominate the Wellington scene,
although the guidebooks we use took no notice of them whatever; NZ cuisine,
bland and meats-and-potatoes a generation ago, is now fully international, with
particular emphasis on Asian

Interesting sculpture is all over the place

There are plenty of Victorian and Art Deco specimens around, but Wellington also
displays a great deal of interesting contemporary architecture; neat place!