Steph­en Fry, act­or, author, wit and geek, is on his way to dear sweet Wel­ling­ton and we are rather excited!

He’s com­ing to Aotearoa New Zea­l­and to film some bits for a BBC series he’s present­ing, Anoth­er Chance To See, where he’s trav­el­ling the world, check­ing up on endangered spe­cies. While he’s in Wel­ling­ton, he’ll be vis­it­ing the Karori Wild­life Sanc­tu­ary to see how the kakapo tuatara are doing (rather well, thank you).

Oh, but this is no ordin­ary vis­it by a sleb.

Mr Fry, being a glor­i­ous geek, has been util­ising the mod­ern powers of the inter­webs to doc­u­ment the film­ing of the series.

He’s been mak­ing reg­u­lar tweets to his Twit­ter account (and fostered a Twit­ter com­munity of Fry fans), upload­ing pho­tos from his iPhone, post­ing video blogs of his Afric­an adven­tures, and just gen­er­ally keep­ing a full and inter­est­ing web­site, doc­u­ment­ing his travels.

This is great news for all! Because it means that instead of get­ting out there and stalk­ing him when he’s in town, you can actu­ally spend that time lying around, drink­ing yummy Mar­gar­itas and keep up with Mr Fry’s adven­tures with the laptop in your tiki shack, instead of hav­ing to go to the effort of get­ting out and stalk­ing him.

(Of course, if you do hap­pen to see him out and about, let us know!)