So it’s now Thursday and I’ve heading home to Hamilton after two days of meeting and greeting in Wellington with the Head Office staff. A really good bunch although I confess I’m struggling with all the abbreviations. I would have said TLA – meaning ‘Three Letter Abbreviations’ but a TLA has a meaning which I am yet to decipher.
Wellington seems a great city, with the harbour and mountains behind it. I managed to spend half an hour wandering around the massive and superb museum on the water front – the only colossal squid on display anywhere in the world is here! Didn’t go up the cable car but I’ll do that on another trip down here.
Interesting interview on TV this morning with the ‘pip fruit’ growers chairman bemoaning the wows of a strong NZ$ - apparently in means that no-one will buy NZ pip fruit – that’s apples to you and me. Just after that there was a piece about Greenpeace trying to stop a ship load of cattle feed being landed because is was from palm oil plantations, it ended with the interviewer (yes the interviewer not the interviewee) looking into the camera and saying that this ‘bunch of do-gooders should be tried as pirates and strung up’
Anyway – I’m back at the airport now having blagged my way into the business class lounge. Well actually I was given a Guest Pass by someone in the office and told to befriend someone heading towards the lounge and ask them if I could be their guest – seemed to work. So I’m sitting here sipping a bottle of Steinlager (not recommended) looking out at the aircraft and the surfers in the bay just beyond the runway!
- Made it home and snapped a few sunset shots of the snowcapped mountains on the flight home…… Richard
Wellington seems a great city, with the harbour and mountains behind it. I managed to spend half an hour wandering around the massive and superb museum on the water front – the only colossal squid on display anywhere in the world is here! Didn’t go up the cable car but I’ll do that on another trip down here.
Interesting interview on TV this morning with the ‘pip fruit’ growers chairman bemoaning the wows of a strong NZ$ - apparently in means that no-one will buy NZ pip fruit – that’s apples to you and me. Just after that there was a piece about Greenpeace trying to stop a ship load of cattle feed being landed because is was from palm oil plantations, it ended with the interviewer (yes the interviewer not the interviewee) looking into the camera and saying that this ‘bunch of do-gooders should be tried as pirates and strung up’
Anyway – I’m back at the airport now having blagged my way into the business class lounge. Well actually I was given a Guest Pass by someone in the office and told to befriend someone heading towards the lounge and ask them if I could be their guest – seemed to work. So I’m sitting here sipping a bottle of Steinlager (not recommended) looking out at the aircraft and the surfers in the bay just beyond the runway!
- Made it home and snapped a few sunset shots of the snowcapped mountains on the flight home…… Richard
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