Weta and Te Papa

When we got back to Wellngton, my niece and her husband took me to visit the Weta Workshop and to the Te Papa National Museum.

You can go on a tour of the actual workshop, plus there is a little museum and store selling all things Weta. They are, of course, the company that creates special effects, etc., for movies like Peter Jackson's King Kong and the Lord of the Rings movies. They also have a hand in a kid's TV series called Jane and the Dragon, which I really like.

At Te Papa, I particularly liked the Britten motorcycle. A Kiwi named John Britten designed bikes so fast that they regularly outperformed big name motorcycles on the international race circuit.Read more