Apropos to a passing comment in your most excellent column, I was on the DoC website at 9:30 Tuesday to book the family (3 of us) on to the Milford track. I missed out on my preferred day in the summer then tried for the next day. Success. The track has around 14,000 people walking it each year in strictly regulated numbers to preserve the natural beauty. Tongariro Crossing has 140,000 each year and on a summer's weekend it's a hellhole. Yep, perhaps I got lucky. But there's a good reason why there are limits on most great walks.
You can still get a great cheese scone and coffee and a quiet place to lie down among the cushions at the National Library and attached WCC pop up library in Molesworth Street.
David; great to read your 8.55 am recall. 1971 in a flat on The Terrace (223 I think),
at the top of Plimmer Steps. Last stop from VUW, Sweet & Maxwell. The foot traffic was huge. Felt like a gatekeeper to the wonderful Wellington and Boulcott Billiards Room below. Within a year Norm Kirk was the PM and it was all beautifiul to my then 22 years. Oh God !
Park Rd is infuriating. Like, what if someone needed to get to the HOSPITAL really QUICKLY! There might be a reason for that?!?!? but no, cars, cars, cars.
Apropos to a passing comment in your most excellent column, I was on the DoC website at 9:30 Tuesday to book the family (3 of us) on to the Milford track. I missed out on my preferred day in the summer then tried for the next day. Success. The track has around 14,000 people walking it each year in strictly regulated numbers to preserve the natural beauty. Tongariro Crossing has 140,000 each year and on a summer's weekend it's a hellhole. Yep, perhaps I got lucky. But there's a good reason why there are limits on most great walks.
You can still get a great cheese scone and coffee and a quiet place to lie down among the cushions at the National Library and attached WCC pop up library in Molesworth Street.
I'm still coming to terms with the great omission. I'm guessing Ferris Bueller isn't in there, neither!
David; great to read your 8.55 am recall. 1971 in a flat on The Terrace (223 I think),
at the top of Plimmer Steps. Last stop from VUW, Sweet & Maxwell. The foot traffic was huge. Felt like a gatekeeper to the wonderful Wellington and Boulcott Billiards Room below. Within a year Norm Kirk was the PM and it was all beautifiul to my then 22 years. Oh God !
Park Rd is infuriating. Like, what if someone needed to get to the HOSPITAL really QUICKLY! There might be a reason for that?!?!? but no, cars, cars, cars.