New Zealand:
Wellington and
Beyond
By Lillian Africano
While I can’t prove this statistically, I’ve read that a trip to New Zealand is high on many bucket lists. And so it should be.
First you have its capital city, Wellington, which Lonely Planet called the coolest little capital in the world. And so it is.
Located on the southernmost part of New Zealand’s North Island,
Wellington is a cultural hub with impressive museums, a lively
music scene and, according to some estimates, more cafes and
bars and restaurants per capita than New York City, the place
where I lived most of my adult life. Yet during my visit, I felt that
New Zealand’s second-most populous city still had a strong
connection with Nature -- and that all those bars and restaurants
had not been created at her expense. Unlike New York City,
where small and prec