Day 1: So Cold... So, So Cold...
ARGH! IT'S COLD!
The flight in was pretty spectacular. It seems that the entire city of Wellington was built for the purpose of providing the maximum visual impressiveness on the flight in. The inbound path takes you right across the bay, so you get an amazing panorama of the city from surprisingly close. The Brisbane equivalent would be something like a landing strip at Southbank, except this is WAY nicer.
Unfortunately I couldn't take a photo as it was the bags-under-the-seat-or-we're-all-gonna-die part of the trip.
Also, incase the point wasn't made, it's FUCKING COLD.
Oh, and it's the zombie apocalypse. Thanks for that, Shelby.
Seriously, on the flight in I thought the city looked a bit weird, and then I realised there was NO traffic. I didn't spot a single car as we were landing. When we left the airport, the taxi driver told us that everyone bails out of Wellington on the weekend. He wasn't exaggerating.
We got to the hotel (which is in the middle of the city) and I decided to go for a wander to a service station about 10 minutes walk away, partially because I wanted some munchies, but mostly because I had a sadistic desire to get frostbite in my extremities.
All the way down to the servo and back, I saw two taxis and a police car. CREEPY. SHIT. It's like those scenes of dead London in "28 Days Later". Except with lots of pretty lights and no horrifying dead people swarming out of alleys. I did walk past an alley a little fast though. You never know.
Today I woke up to find my mobile isn't connecting to any NZ networks. THANKYOU OPTUS. Then we walked for two hours, jet lagged (seriously, I didn't expect only 4 hours time difference to fuck me up this bad) to find an internet cafe. Only we picked New Zealand's Labour Day long weekend to travel, so fuck all is open. It's not all bad, because this city is seriously beautiful, and obviously, we eventually found an internet cafe.
Then I spent about 20 minutes browsing the optus website trying to find ANYTHING to help with the mobile. But all they have is "Dial this number and HAPPY FUCKING MAGIC TIMES YOUR MOBILE JUST WORKS ANYWHERE". RAAAAGE.
So we're supposed to be meeting Nikki for lunch, only I can't get in touch with her...
Timing FTW. She just messaged Heath on Facebook (he's sitting beside me making half-jokes about how he should play WoW, waiting for me to say "*SIGH* FINE JUST PLAY IT"). Gotta go! Photos later...
xox
The flight in was pretty spectacular. It seems that the entire city of Wellington was built for the purpose of providing the maximum visual impressiveness on the flight in. The inbound path takes you right across the bay, so you get an amazing panorama of the city from surprisingly close. The Brisbane equivalent would be something like a landing strip at Southbank, except this is WAY nicer.
Unfortunately I couldn't take a photo as it was the bags-under-the-seat-or-we're-all-gonna-die part of the trip.
Also, incase the point wasn't made, it's FUCKING COLD.
Oh, and it's the zombie apocalypse. Thanks for that, Shelby.
Seriously, on the flight in I thought the city looked a bit weird, and then I realised there was NO traffic. I didn't spot a single car as we were landing. When we left the airport, the taxi driver told us that everyone bails out of Wellington on the weekend. He wasn't exaggerating.
We got to the hotel (which is in the middle of the city) and I decided to go for a wander to a service station about 10 minutes walk away, partially because I wanted some munchies, but mostly because I had a sadistic desire to get frostbite in my extremities.
All the way down to the servo and back, I saw two taxis and a police car. CREEPY. SHIT. It's like those scenes of dead London in "28 Days Later". Except with lots of pretty lights and no horrifying dead people swarming out of alleys. I did walk past an alley a little fast though. You never know.
Today I woke up to find my mobile isn't connecting to any NZ networks. THANKYOU OPTUS. Then we walked for two hours, jet lagged (seriously, I didn't expect only 4 hours time difference to fuck me up this bad) to find an internet cafe. Only we picked New Zealand's Labour Day long weekend to travel, so fuck all is open. It's not all bad, because this city is seriously beautiful, and obviously, we eventually found an internet cafe.
Then I spent about 20 minutes browsing the optus website trying to find ANYTHING to help with the mobile. But all they have is "Dial this number and HAPPY FUCKING MAGIC TIMES YOUR MOBILE JUST WORKS ANYWHERE". RAAAAGE.
So we're supposed to be meeting Nikki for lunch, only I can't get in touch with her...
Timing FTW. She just messaged Heath on Facebook (he's sitting beside me making half-jokes about how he should play WoW, waiting for me to say "*SIGH* FINE JUST PLAY IT"). Gotta go! Photos later...
xox
posted by Boon at
9:23 AM
2 Comments:
Hey there - just read your post.
I'm more than happy to look into your service and get International Roaming activated for you if you'd like to send your details here : https://www.optus.com.au/portal/site/aboutoptus/menuitem.26a56e3a0149a03327b868108c8ac7a0/?vgnextoid=f7fccd2cb6272210VgnVCM10000002cd780aRCRD
Cheers,
Robbie Bayros
Optus
Wow... Cheers Robbie, much appreciated! I spent 20 minutes trying to find out if this was a phishing attempt or not. Above and beyond the call of duty, eh?
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