‘Like a seagull in a stiff breeze’: what it’s like flying into Wellington, the world’s windiest city
Anyone who has frequently landed in New Zealand’s capital has a hair-raising story to tell, and this year’s ‘super’ El Niño could only intensify the windsIt had been a smooth late-July flight from Auckland, until the plane started its descent into Wellington. Then the bumps and swaying began.“The more we went down, the rockier it got,” says Laura, a Wellington resident who wished to give her first name only. “There was one point where we must have got a horrible…
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