Cracking the Code to a Beautiful Life : Wellington

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Gloria Jean's Wellington, NZ

Wellington has been named as New Zealand's "coolest" little city. I can understand why.
It looks like a miniature mix of Melbourne and Sydney with it's old Victorian style buildings converted into cafes and boutique shops.

The city is very small and I was able to walk around it within 2 hours... well at least the part that looks like a 'city'.

The city center has FREE wifi. When you try to login for some free internet connection, open your browser and you need to authenticate first by choosing a 'sponsor'. I figured out however that I can have many different sponsors so the 30 mins free wifi per sponsor could turn into 2 hours free use. Pretty convenient and I hope Wellington keeps that for the sake of tourists.

I visited Gloria Jean's cafe not because I love it. I chose Gloria Jeans strategically! It is a well-known franchise and likely the staff won't mind if I stay 2 hours in the cafe while working on important files. Other boutique cafes which I would have preferred would be stricter.

The coffee at Gloria Jeans is $4.5 per cup - around the average price really.

Did I enjoy it? Well it is a practical choice as I said. :-)

However, next time when I am less busy, I'll try something more boutiquey :)

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Fisherman's Table, Wellington

This is the only restaurant I visit in Wellington *regularly*. Why??? For so many wonderful reasons:
1. It has a $15.95 all you can eat meal.
2. For $15.95 you can get a fish meal with chips and unlimited salad in their oh-so healthy salad bar.
3. They have a wonderful view of the sea
4. They have great location
5. I love their fish meals

You can get salmon, white fish or hot pot seafood soup. You can have the fish cooked with batter or pan- fried. These are always my choices. Yes you can get beef as well.

Salad options? Potato salad, macaroni and cheese, pickled onions, olives, beans mix, couscous, beetroot, pasta salads, pumpkin seeds, various dressings, potato wedges, carrot cuts sauteed, apple salad, egg salad, basmati rice

What more can a seafood lover and healthy eater ask for? :D

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Wholly Bagels, Wellington, New Zealand

whole grain bagel with poppy and sesame seeds and garlic cream cheese & herbs

Visited Wellington's Wholly Bagels yesterday! http://www.whollybagels.co.nz/
I visited the branch on Neworld, Thorndon area, Wellington.

I got the $6 deal (special bagel + coffee).

They added a lot of cream cheese so I had to scrape some off and still have a satisfying breakfast. In fact, I wasn't able to finish the bagel. I was so full after half of it. I wasn't able to finish my mochaccino as well.

Approximately, an entire bagel with cream cheese is 450 calories :-)

Would I come back despite that scary calorie count? Yeah it could be my little treat for the day and just make sure that I don't eat too much on my other meals on that same day!