Gallipoli: The Scale Of Our War

Having been to Gallipoli and many other WWI sites, we wanted to see Te Papa's current temporary exhibit, "Gallipoli: The Scale Of Our War," put together largely with monumental and monumentally impressive exhibits by Weta. The scale of Commonwealth participation, and sacrifice, in the World Wars is often not fully appreciated. (Ask me about Dieppe).

By no means our first visit to Te Papa Tongarewa, the wonderful
national museum

The central exhibits are 3x-4x life-sized and the most convincingly
life-like I have ever seen

All based on the experiences of 8 individuals

We were at ANZAC Beach in 2010

All kinds of subsidiary exhibits, artifacts

Understandably, very little from the Turkish side

Trench warfare...

Model of an NZ fort

An NZ nurse learns that her brother has been killed
ashore 

A respectful note from Ataturk; when we were at Gallipoli,
there were numerous visitors from Australia and New Zealand
at the battle sites and cemeteries

Gallipoli, with its 500,000 casualties, was a mere skirmish by
WWI standards; the Kiwis who survived were then shipped off
to France and Belgium to an even worse hell

Flanders Fields...

An eloquent evocation of the fact that the Maori were a large
part of NZ's WWI effort; they argued that effort could not be
considered national unless they were part of it

Wellington Sunday Market

We had read good things about the Wellington Sunday market, next to Te Papa, and, Sunday morning, hoping for something as good or even better than Nelson's market, we set forth...

En route; subliminal suggestion

The market...turned out to be strictly produce...plus a dozen or so food carts/
trailers/trucks

I finally had a nitro coffee...another "once in a lifetime" experience

Porridge stand

"'murican mustard"

Still, there was much to like...

Chilean food trailer; authentic, too, we can attest

Doesn't take much to have a food stand here

Next to the harbor, every now and then something odd washes up; this I think
off a Cook Strait ferry from a couple years back...

Welly's a great food town, especially if you fancy Asian food

Old St. Paul's Cathedral And Katherine Mansfield Birthplace

I wanted to see the old St. Paul's cathedral--19th century timbered Gothic--and Vicki wanted to see the Katherine Mansfield house, so our long day's walk continued.

Down from the botanical garden and therough the Bolton St.
cemetery, which we found unusually sparse for a central settlers'
cemetery

Until we realized it was bisected by Wellington's central
expressway and that some thousands of graves had to be
relocated up the hill; note interesting iron tombstone...

Inscriptions quite effusive in those days; or maybe
engravers were cheap

One of several Maori

Moving right along, through the government center: the Beehive,
NZ's parliament building

Monumental view

More government buildings 

St. Paul's, Wellington's original Anglican cathedral, 1860s

All timber

And Gothic too

Chancel

Probably not 13th century

More of the growth vs. historic preservation thing

And beautiful art decos scattered all over

Central expressway

Katherine Mansfield birthplace

A short story writer of note; Rebecca teaches a
couple of her stories; she died quite young

The US embassy, occupying the site of the family house where
she lived most of her life