Blogs from North Shore, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 8

Most of day 5 was spent setting up the scaffolding. Mike gave us a ½ day because it was a Saturday. Mike suggested we go to Pi Hua Beach in the Northwest of Auckland. The views of Green Bay (New Zealand not the Wisconsin one) were just awesome. Our wonderful drivers Kirk and Bill had some interesting turns through the mountains to get there. We climbed Lion Rock and strolled the black sand beach. On the way back we stopped at quaint overlook restaurant called The Elevation that had scenic view of Auckland proper. After a long day we came back to the motel and went to our Lebonese owned cowboy restaurant The Stampede (execellent food). One of the construction workers from the build site was nice enough to meet us for diner. Paul was also ... read more

Polly: To anyone thinking of visiting New Zealand, I would strongly recommend a trip to the west coast of South America (or Canada perhaps) on the way - it totally sorts out the whole jet-lag thing. We took off from Santiago at 10:45pm on the 26th September, had a few beverages over the Pacific Ocean, then slept for about 7 hours. We landed in Auckland, 13 hours later at 4:45am (the clocks changed that morning) on the 28th. Apart from losing a day of my life, which is still puzzling me, we were almost in sync with NZ time, we just needed to resist the urge to nap at about 4pm and push on through. It really was quite civilised! We got a shuttle bus & rolled up at Becky & Tom's at about 6:30am. Becky, ... read more

Bloody hell...I've just typed a huge blah blah blah entry and lost my internet connection so don't think it was published...so if I am repeating myself then sorry!! Arrived safe and well...generally had a good trip but hated hated hated LA airport...will never go through there again!Had a chilled out day with Verity yesterday,it's so peaceful where her,Andyand Oliver live.It's about 10 mins away from the beach and about 20mins fromAuckland city. Went into Auckland today.Went up the SkyTower which was cool...amazing views over Auckland...photos to follow soon!We also went on a city bus tour in a "stunning" pea green minibus...the city is tiny in comparison to London but lovely...really clean and not at all crowded.It's a really diverse place with the usual shops etc found in a city,but the harbour is lush(lots of posh yachts...unfortunately ... read more

Im Juli gabs Hagel, Dauerregen und Glühwein...... read more

Auckland im Winter... read more