O‑K Road, 4 Octo­ber 2005
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Wel­ling­ton is often a good city for walk­ing: some would even say it’s bet­ter for walk­ing than cyc­ling.

And so it was today.

The air was soft and cool, scrubbed by the overnight rain. There was not a breath of wind, and stream­ers of fog clung to the hills.

From Orangi-Kaupapa Road the view was breath­tak­ing. Ranged around, the city was start­ing to hum. Out on the water, activ­ity too: the East­bourne ferry mak­ing its way to Queens’s Wharf.

Fog obscured the sun, but found its way through any­way, reflect­ing off the utterly calm waters of the har­bour. The scene was bathed in a lam­bent honey-col­oured light; an instant of some­thing that could not be cap­tured by a mere phone cam­era lens.

Moments like this. Remem­ber. This town.

“We will con­quer uto­pia in space chari­ots.”