City Life- A Week in Auckland

Arriving in Auckland to horrible rainy weather (very much typical of my experience in the North Island unfortunately) but a very bright and chirpy Maia, as always! The weather for the next four days was horrific, I spent more or less the entire time indoors catching up on missed games console time and movie watching. Fantastic. I did do some productive things, like booking a trip up north and sorting out my accomodation in Hong Kong in a months time! Woop!

Auckland City

I spent some time getting hopelessly lost in central Auckland, the bus system is an absolute maze. Long story short I ended up somewhere a long way from where I intended to be. Not fun. The vast majority of the time was spent finding the things I wanted to check out rather than ACTUALLY seeing them. Auckland can be a beautiful city though, especially at night from Auckland bridge I found, unfortunately I didn't have my camera but it really is a magical sight to behold!

On a few of the days in the brief periods of sunshine between manic showers I did make it down to the beach in Mellons Bay, which was beautiful, a breath of fresh air and just a tad lonely. Nothing's as fun when you're not sharing it with any mates, so I resorted to hunting crabs in rock pools. And failed.

Sunrise in Auckland

However, I did have good fun in the evenings with Maia, sitting around eating chocolate and drinking wine infront of the tele. One night I cooked risotto for her and Rodney which was good fun, it'd been a while since I had last cooked a decent meal!

Mr Nom Nom- just look at the eyes!!