Short post for this part of my trip despite the large amount of fun that I had... so much in fact that I often forgot to pull out the camera ;-) I stopped in Wellington for about a week and a half to visit my friends Jan and Karly. Jan and I had worked together in Nepal and Tibet a few years prior and I'd never had the chance to meet his partner Karly until I visited... she's pretty awesome and they were both wonderful hosts. I split my time there between hanging out with the instant group of friends I inherited via their large community of chums, touring the town (Wellington is great!) and heading off to surf for a bit. We surfed again when I came back on a truly epic south sweel that hit the southern edge of the Wairapa... I got a few good rides but for the most part was totaly worked... Jan tore it up but broke his board and a semi-pro longboarder mate of his absolutely floored all of us... alas though no pics of that session... here are some others though:
The view from Jan and Karly's apartment... stunning.
My two excellent hosts ;-) They only thing that I don't like about them is that they live toooooooo far away ;-(
A couple of shots around Wellington...
A bit of video from my interview with Andy Blue... he's a street musician from Waihiki Island... I have some awesome video of his amazing guitar playing but the file is so large that I haven't been able to upload it or parse out the bits that I wanted to post... I'll put that up when I get it sorted so here is the interview for now... Andy is a hoot...
Interview with Andy Blue: Wellington, NZ Oct 2008 from Matthew Donahue on Vimeo.
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