Ooh! If you're going to be in New Zealand in November then you should sign up for get_together! Low-cost fannish weekend in Wellington, and it's awesome fun. I won't be there this year, alas, because I just moved to Australia, but the ladies who run it are GREAT.

Registration form: http://get--together.livejournal.com/71788.html
Preliminary list of fandoms they're going to cover/pimp: http://get--together.livejournal.com/71392.html

And you *have* to go to Kaffee Eis - best ice cream gourmet-flavour gelato evaaar.

Also, if I happen to visit New Zealand while you're still there I may drop you a line if that's OK :-)