Flickr: A Trek Through Wellington

To all those that left for the Yuletide, wel­come back. We at Wel­ling­tonista Towers trust you all had a spark­ling time away cel­eb­rat­ing Christ­mas and New Year, are refreshed and ready to take on anoth­er fun packed Wel­ling­ton year.

Oh, and before I con­tin­ue, just a word about the weath­er – don’t worry about it. If it’s “too” windy it means the beaches will be free of riff-raff, if it’s rain­ing the cafes will be buzz­ing and if it’s “gen­er­ally fine with the odd cloud and a chance of showers” it means the TV weath­er people have just told you that there’s gonna be “weath­er!” (it happened last night on TV One).

Any­who, on to 2007 and your Wel­ling­tonista…

It’s our inten­tion to keep you abreast of all major, minor and mid­dling sized events with­in the Wel­ling­ton region (as defined by our glor­i­ous lead­er on a shift­ing day-to-day basis). We’ll tell you when the nation­al sport­ing sides are play­ing, the region’s finest are in battle and when your loc­al side demands your sup­port.

Theatre, music and all of the arts will be covered as usu­al. Where to drink, where not to drink, parades to avoid/support and any­thing and everything quirky and ‘Wel­ling­ton’ that we get to hear on the top floor of the Towers will be passed on to you.

Of course, you can tip off our attract­ive and intel­li­gent read­er­ship by drop­ping us a line (james@wellingtonista.com) or leav­ing a com­ment on any of the posts.

And to start you off, here’s the rugby big­gies for the year – you have be warned

  • NZ Sev­ens: Feb­ru­ary 2nd-3rd
  • Hur­ricanes v Blues: Feb­ru­ary 17th
  • Hur­ricanes v Brumbies: Feb­ru­ary 23rd
  • Hur­ricanes v Stormers: March 3rd
  • Hur­ricanes v Bulls: March 31st
  • Hur­ricanes v Chee­tahs: April 13th
  • Hur­ricanes v High­landers: April 27th
  • Hur­ricanes v Wara­tahs: May 5th
  • All Blacks v France: June 9th

And I’m sure the Sil­ver Ferns will have a game in our town dur­ing the Novem­ber Net­ball World Cham­pi­on­ships. But that’s enough about sport.

Just before I return to clean­ing the boss’s desk ready for his return from the trop­ics you should know that a few of us work­er-bees at The Towers have pledged to post at least once a week so check­ing back reg­u­larly or, even bet­ter still, sub­scrib­ing (for free) is a great idea.