This post is an intro­duc­tion since the folks at Welling­ton­ista have kind­ly invit­ed me to join their mer­ry band (and I now have an unex­pect­ed day off since the office is closed).

So a lit­tle about me ….  I LOVE Welling­ton, food, events, eat­ing expe­ri­ences, movies, solo Sat­ur­day morn­ing wan­ders, soak­ing up the city vibe, hang­ing out with friends, explor­ing, misty morn­ings, sun­shine, the water.…asleep yet?

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAI’m also a food tour guide for Zest Food Tours of New Zealand, a motor­cy­clist (road not track), I dab­ble in nutri­tion (includ­ing a blog of ‑hope­ful­ly — sim­ple infor­ma­tion and thoughts), have a Welling­ton eat­ing blog (start­ed as a repos­i­to­ry for myself once upon a time), belong to the NZ Food Writ­ers Guild (pure­ly for inter­est) and work in the cor­po­rate world sev­er­al days a week (to pay the bills!).

I live on the Ter­race to enjoy the city and all its offer­ings with ease, and share all that with a hub­by and sev­er­al teenage step-kids who come and go.

On a fine summer’s day you might find me rid­ing in the Wairara­pa (if I haven’t man­aged to scam a few more days off for a longer ride), host­ing guests around the city, soak­ing up the sun with a book, or wan­der­ing the water­front.

On a moody winter’s day you might find me tucked up at a movie (yay for the Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val about to begin!), read­ing the week­end paper at a café (or new Cap­i­tal mag­a­zine just excit­ed­ly dis­cov­ered) with
Tugboat custard donuthands firm­ly wrapped around a deli­cious hot drink, enjoy­ing a stormy invig­o­rat­ing walk around the coast, or catch­ing up with friends over love­ly food and wines.

To leave you today, I fig­ured I’d share my deli­cious Sat­ur­day morn­ing snack at the Boat Café this week­end gone (before all the excite­ment), enjoyed while watch­ing the misty morn­ing slow­ly clear­ing away to reveal a brand new day…

Until next time.

HeatherC, food­iegem­sofwellie