Feb 16: Creativity, Culture, and Cuisine

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Feb 16, 2024: Wellington

We spent the morning touring Weta Workshop, an incredible home-grown New Zealand business which has gone from sculpting margarine at home to enormous film projects, most famously LOTR. They designed and produced everything from hobbit ears to swords and cave trolls.

Trolls R Us

We dropped the cars at home (parking in Wellington proper is difficult and prohibitively expensive), and walked to Te Papa. It is a museum with lots of interactive components, and I could’ve easily spent three times as long as I had there.

Te Papa’s Colossal squid! At 1000lbs, she is a small one, and has shrunk after being preserved.
One of many light-hearted public art installations.
Dinner at Logan Brown’s – special occasion New Zealand cuisine – was a delicious a promised.

Alice

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