By Justin Atkinson, 18 July 2024
Walkies set out to fill up VUWTC's passport by bagging as many embassies in the CBD as we could. We debated the difference between embassies, high commissions, consulates, consulate-generals, permanent missions, and representative offices. Protectorates, realms, free associations, and other diverse governance arrangements were bickered over. VUWTC was added to the watchlists of about 26 diplomatic missions. The Embassy Theatre was nabbed for completeness.
We sadly missed a bunch for time reasons, sorry to people from those places! (Papua New Guinea, Austria, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Norway, Vanuatu, Finland, Colombia, Tuvalu, Timor-Leste, the European Union, Hungary, Belgium, Sweden, Argentina, Türkiye, and Italy).
Our favourite sites were the Royal Thai Embassy for its cool murals and pagoda, the Embassy of the United States for its fortress and snipers, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany for its friendship bear and garden, the Embassy of the Philippines for its homely manor, and New Zealand's Embassy to New Zealand for obvious reasons!
Here are all the countries (and non-countries!) we stamped:
Embassy Theatre
Spain
Republic of Ireland
Egypt
Chile
Mexico
Republic of Korea
Poland
United Arab Emirates
Kuwait
Brazil
Switzerland
The Netherlands
France (all three embassies!)
New Zealand
People's Republic of China (Consular and Overseas Chinese Affairs Section)
United Kingdom
Thailand
India
Fiji
Cook Islands
United States of America
Niue
Germany
Australia
The Philippines
