Wellington

The Great War Exhibition

While visiting Wellington last month, we went to the very impressive Great War Exhibition at the old Dominion Museum. The exhibition takes the visitor on a chronological journey as well […]

Down in the Archives

In early September we spent a week in our capital city, Wellington. Wellington’s a great city to visit: compact, set against a stunning harbour, and well-endowed with good cafés. But […]

What’s now New Zealand’s capital city was a wilder place a century and a half ago. On 25th March 1847, Dr Isaac Featherston and Colonel William Wakefield fought a duel […]