A shot of a half-eaten Fergburger. A not-quite-wide-enough wide angle of The Remarkables. A view from the Onsen Hot Pools with your semi-submerged buttocks in the foreground.

Right. Now that you’ve ticked off the Queenstown Instagram clichés (or not), it’s time to put away your phone, put on your Swanni, and get stuck into some of our recommendations for how to spend 48 hours in the epicentre of our epic South Island.

Sailors, scarfies, design gurus, goldminers…. Plenty of folks have found good reason to rush to Dunedin over the years.

And while the weather here may not always merit writing home about (they don’t call it the Edinburgh of the South for nothing), everything in Dunners is very much in the walkable bracket. So what more excuse do you need to slip on your favourite Swanni and spend 48 hours discovering what this ‘cool as’ little city has to offer.

They say you can’t beat Wellington on a good day. And while that may be true, we reckon a day is what you make of it, regardless of wind or weather. Anyway, when did a little sea breeze ever put us Swanndri people off?

With that in mind, here’s our shortlist of what to do with 48 hours in Wellington.

First things first, food. Because no one ever achieved anything worthwhile on an empty stomach (or without coffee, for that matter).