Auckland

After being in Auckland two times, but only less than 24 hours every time, we thought it would be nice to spend a little more time this time.

So we booked ourselves a hotel for 4 nights and went into the city.

Auckland is a well organized city with millions of places to eat. Eating out is cheap. It is even cheaper than cooking yourself, as we found out yesterday.

But it is not only wandering around the city, eating everywhere and lay back, we are also in the city for some serious shopping! And the weeks before Christmas are really great to do some shopping in Auckland. The streets are nicely decorated with Christmas tree’s etc. and everybody is shopping their ass off for Christmas presents. There is also sale everywhere, what saved us a lot of money.

Our shopping mission was to buy a tent, mats, etc for our hiking-trip next week.

It took us only one day to complete our mission! So now we are wondering around the city, eating out, relax and setting new daily goals. Yesterday it was our goal to find a Laundromat and get our clothes washed. It took us a morning of walking around in the suburbs and we found one and now our clothes are finally clean! I have no idea what our goal will be today, maybe just relaxing.

Tomorrow we are travelling to Tauranga where we will meet Jan and Marjorie. On Wednesday we are going on our hiking trip of 7 days. The weather predictions don’t show really nice weather (read not sunny all the time) but I am sure we will manage.

Cheers Anna