Keeping warm with carb-on-carb

It’s win­ter, which means the Welling­ton­ista’s thoughts turn to warm­ing food to warm our­selves up. What’s more warm­ing than the love­ly hug of car­bo­hy­drates? The dou­ble hug of at least two kinds of carbs at once! With that in mind, here are some of our favourite carb-on-carb expe­ri­ences in Welling­ton: Mac’n cheese slid­ers at Pick­le. […]

A lion (and others) in winter

Right now the mag­no­lias are in bloom along Roy Street in New­town, and it’s gor­geous. But of course, it’s around this time last year that it snowed, so don’t be fooled — it’s still win­ter. The good news though, means that Welling­ton Zoo has entry for only $5 on Wednes­days through­out all of August. Nat­u­ral­ly […]

Wellington winter nostalgia (no, really)

Today’s guest post comes cour­tesy of Daisy Coles — you read more of her stuff over at daisyandzelda.wordpress.com I’m sit­ting in my togs on shady grass in a hid­den cor­ner of Europe. I’m watch­ing the drag­on­flies flit round a lazy lit­tle branch of the Danube, with a wine spritzer in one hand and an incom­pre­hen­si­ble news­pa­per […]