{"id":259,"date":"2008-07-24T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T08:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:39","slug":"last-night-at-the-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/last-night-at-the-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Last night at the flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my time here is officially almost over. Here&#8217;s my last week in Wellington:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Saturday: Dinner with friends at Southern Cross, then out to a bar and dancing.<br \/>\n&#8211; Sunday: Last time at church.<br \/>\n&#8211; Monday: Saying goodbye to Adeline and an evening at Strawberry Fare with my friends from church.<br \/>\n&#8211; Tuesday: Miriam and Charlotte come to Wellington and I give them a tour of Wellington.<br \/>\n&#8211; Wednesday: Birthday lunch for Jessica. Getting stuff done like waiting for the courier and closing my bank account.<br \/>\n&#8211; Thursday: Visit to Te Papa Tongarewa museum. The evening is spent hanging out with Jessica, Rathy, Michelle, Supriya and Celia, eating takeout and watching TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2697468133\/\" title=\"Goodbye Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3113\/2697468133_c940560dfe_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Goodbye Wellington\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2698290042\/\" title=\"Goodbye Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3170\/2698290042_71014fbdc1_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Goodbye Wellington\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2698288616\/\" title=\"Goodbye Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3078\/2698288616_98beb9b716_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Goodbye Wellington\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2698291038\/\" title=\"Goodbye Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3128\/2698291038_db149d3599_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Goodbye Wellington\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2698291856\/\" title=\"Goodbye Wellington by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3096\/2698291856_fc177c7fd0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Goodbye Wellington\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs always, all photos can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/sets\/72157603121222878\/\">here<\/a> in my Flickr album. For Australia I&#8217;ll start a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow Rathy will take me to the airport at 4am, because my plane leaves for Melbourne at 6am. I seriously can&#8217;t really believe that I won&#8217;t be coming back here, not for a long time at least. But here&#8217;s the itinerary for Australia so far:<\/p>\n<p>July 25-30: Melbourne, staying with my friend Sonja<br \/>\nJuly 31-August 2: bus tour to Adelaide<br \/>\nAug 3-5: Adelaide<br \/>\nAug 6-7: Ghan train to Alice Springs<br \/>\nAug 8-10: tour to see Uluru\/Ayers Rock<br \/>\nAug 11-13: Ghan train to Darwin<br \/>\nAug 14-24: travel down the west coast by Greyhound<br \/>\nAug 25-September 1: Perth, staying with my friend Nancy<br \/>\nSeptember 2: flying to Singapore, where I&#8217;ll stay with my friend Amy<br \/>\nSeptember 6: arriving in Zurich<\/p>\n<p>Kia ora from Aotearoa &#8211; I&#8217;ll talk to you from the land of kangaroos, folks! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Edit: My flight was canceled because of the strong wind and rain we&#8217;ve been having here. I was told to call tomorrow about a later flight, but in any case I&#8217;m booked for Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my time here is officially almost over. Here&#8217;s my last week in Wellington: &#8211; Saturday: Dinner with friends at Southern Cross, then out to a bar and dancing. &#8211; Sunday: Last time at church. &#8211; Monday: Saying goodbye to Adeline and an evening at Strawberry Fare with my friends from church. &#8211; Tuesday: Miriam &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/24\/last-night-at-the-flat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last night at the flat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-australia","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}