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Auckland

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 16 November 2007 | Views [902] | Comments [1]

I love Devonport!

I love Devonport!

I'll stick by my original impression of Auckland, it doesn't hold up well to expectations when you first step off the plane.  I now realise there are a lot of really nice parts around the centre - Devonport for example is just delightful.  Huge parks, volcanoes/hills to climb, long beaches and views across the bay - Devonport is maybe a place i could live.  Overall i guess Auckland isn't such a bad city given time.

I'm here again to wait for a mate - Tony is a guy i met while trekking in Nepal/Tibet.  He's recently retired from being a headmaster at an inner city Liverpool boys school and he's going to travel/trek/share a space with me for a month.  The longest I've ever travelled continuously with someone is a month and then i was fairly fed up with them...this could be interesting.

It's Friday night when we meet, I've already sorted out renting a car for the next month and over a pint or 3 we plan the next couple of days.  Our skills are tested to the limits immediately - Tony's in understanding anything the locals say (he doesn't) and mine in getting Tony back to his motel at a reasonable hour (I don't).  In the morning we pick the car up - a Toyota with nearly 200,000km on the clock, a huge charge if we damage it, 1000's of km's to drive, an mp3 converter and a price of less than a tenner a day. 

We hope for an inexpensive, musical, magical month...

 

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Knew you'd come round, driving around the waterfront at night is amazing. It also has some awesome beaches.... Shane: yeah, but my first impression sticks - it could be a LOT better

  Tam Nov 25, 2007 5:45 PM

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