We left Heather to catch her flight at Wellington and headed to our hotel. They had no record of our booking - or payment - but we had an email saying we had done both, We got a pretty run down room, but it had a good view of the Harbour, and since it was only for a short stay we put up with it.
We had a few hours to fill in before going out for dinner, so we went to the Sketcher Shop. I had a lovely young girl serve me there. I told her that I wanted a pair of white shoes and a pair of black sandals - while I was clutching a pair of sparkly sandals. She disappeared out the back for quite a while, but soon we saw a pile of boxes on legs moving towards us. "The courier's just been - lets have a look at these!" At this point I sent Duncan out to walk the streets for a while. Yes I bought these 3!
That night we went to Pravda. Duncan had a $150 voucher from buying so much wine in lockdown so we really enjoyed our night in one of Wellington's best restaurants.
Next morning we were off to the Surrealist Exhibition. Being the first day of the school holidays there were quite a few children there. I suspect the parents/grandparents had not done their research as the little ones were to low to look at the pictures and displays, and maybe they didn't realise that the aim was to poke fun at the conservative mores of the time - and meant that many of the artwork had pornographic overtones!! Much sniggering by the pre-teens.
Just as you are coming out of the exhibition there is a large installation that you walk through which reminded me of my dreams sometimes, when I am trying to do a sum in my head
There are very few people there - except for a film crew making a beer commercial! A good lunch and a very good stream of conversation. Gwyndls works a couple of days at BoxHill which is a ladies clothing store which was on my list of places to visit - if I hadn't been clothes and shoe shopping already. Next time.
A string maze of numbers and symbols
After a short sit in the sun we met up with Gwyndyls and Tony at St Johns for lunch.
We had to be up bright and early next morning so got packed that night - and we only needed a small bite to eat for tea after our sumptuous lunch.
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