Around Wellington with Bexie.

After 10 days with Ian and Alicia, it was back to Wellington for a few days. Bexie met up with me and we had a chance to do some café and bookstore meandering.


It involved a vegan chocolate-raspberry cupcake-castle.


And a stop at low-lit Fidel's, for coffee and a brownie and apple cake. We checked out some live-music bars, but they were either too expensive (the Buzzcocks were in town) or not interesting. We settled on going to the Penthouse cinema to see Away We Go, which was cute and funny and sad all at once and I loved it.
Indigo works as a cook at Parliament, so one of the days we met up with Ian and Alicia for a tour! We actually did 2 rounds, the first time we were shown all the behind-the-scenes of the cooks in their big industrial kitchens. (We were required to wear hair-nets.)

Then we tried to tag along with a formal tour but the woman motioned for security to escort us away. Apparently we weren't wearing the right badges. After these were acquired, we found out we weren't supposed to take pictures, but I had already snapped some the first time around. Here I'm standing with Indigo (Bexie took this).

By the way, Parliament looks a lot like how I envision the Ministry of Magic.
After, we went out for tea.