• The Gallipoli exhibition

    ByGreta

    The Gallipoli exhibition at Wellington’s Te Papa gallery is hands down the best such presentation I have ever seen. Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops, along with British, Indian, and French soldiers, landed on beaches along the Dardanelles in Turkey on 25th April, 1915. It was an ill-conceived campaign, badly led. The ANZACs…

  • Wellington, NZ’s capital

    ByGreta

    From Napier our Ultimate coach took us south to Wellington, our last stop on the North Island. The city is New Zealand’s capital and has been since 1865, supplanting Auckland in that role. In Australia, Canberra was created halfway between Melbourne and Sydney to end the rivalry between the two cities. In New Zealand it…