Today we arrived early in Wellington. Visited Wellington's Anglican Cathedral of St. Paul (this Cathedral has been built with timber in a Gothic Revival architecture, as it became too small, the city built a new, bigger one, built with a funny orange concrete stone and closed the old one down.
They wanted to demolish the old one but the Heritage Fond fought against it. Now this church can be rented for Weddings, Funerals or other events but you have to pay for it and bring your own priest) (www.oldstpauls.co.nz).
Then we boarded the cable car (built in 1899 and operated with steam, since 1933 working with electricity as power, 1978 the original system was replaced by a new Swiss designed system).
After lunch the bus took us up to Mount Victoria with a panoramic view down to the city, later we attended a sheep shearing demonstration, than had Lunch at the Lindale Farm and saw at the Southward Car Museum (www.southwardcarmuseum.co.nz) a great collection of Antique cars.
The houses here are built with timber to be wobbly for all the earthquakes in the region.
Lunch at the sheep farm was lovely, we saw a lot and the trip, expensive, was worth the money
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