Day 7. Nelson

 As our first day in Nelson we decided to look around the town. It's a decent size, but there's not really that much here and I think we've exhausted the town now (unless we want to go to the peanut butter museum).

We started off driving the few blocks into the middle of town and parking by the Queen's Gardens. These were small but surprisingly pretty.

Right next to the gardens was the Sutter Gallery and so we looked at their decent but not amazing exhibitions and then went the few blocks to the main shopping street and mall. We stopped in the local museum, which was small and mostly just told stories of the local area but did a good job of it., At the top of the street there are steps up to a surprisingly ugly cathedral.

Having seen everything in the centre of town we retreated to our room to recover and have lunch.

In the afternoon we drove a way north to Cable Bay. There wasn't very much there, but it's an attractive spot and we walked up to the lookout.


That was all we could find close to town, so we went back. In the evening we went to a surprisingly good Thai restaurant.


Location: 7 Trafalgar Street, The Wood, Nelson 7040, New Zealand

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 10. Driving

Image
 Today was all about the drive back from Nelson to Christchurch - and it took up pretty much the whole day. We checked out about 9.30am and headed east. This was quite windy, through the mountains to Blenheim. On the way we stopped at Hevelock at the head of Pelarus Sound, which turned out to be a pretty town with nice galleries. Then we carried on to Blenheim, where we again stopped to stretch our legs and walked around a market and visitor centre. At this point the road turns south along the coast. It's less windy and easier driving. At one point we stopped for a break and found there was a sea lion nursery, granite rocks with lots of protected pools containing sea lion pups, some with their mothers. Ohau Point Part way down the east coast we stopped at Kaikoura for lunch and to walk up and down the main street for a while. It's a busy seaside holiday town in the high season but fortunately was a bit quieter today.  Just south of Kaikoura we stopped at a pebbly beach with gr...
Read more

Day 11. Christchurch Airport

Image
 We have not really come up with anything to do today, so it looks like we'll mooch around the airport until our flight this afternoon - made easier now we have a late, midday checkout. We'll still have to return the car and then hang around until we can check in. It has been foggy this morning but we can still watch planes taking off and saw a USAF Hercules here on exercises. Fortunately the time difference works for us this way. We don't leave here until mid-afternoon but will get home around 8pm.
Read more

Day 9. Moutere

Image
 Grey and wet today when we woke. This was not a surprise and why we went to Abel Tasman yesterday, while the weather held. I think we have been lucky that it has stayed fine as long as it has. This was a good excuse for a fairly quiet day, going out late. We drive up to Moutere, north east of Nelson. This is the centre of the local wine district. It turned out that Upper Moutere was very small, only 4-5 buildings. We went in to a couple of craft shops and had a coffee, then went to Heaphy Vineyard for wine tasting and lunch before driving back to Nelson.
Read more