We got into our hostel at 2pm today then promptly went to sleep, we never slept much on the plane so had been up for about 30 hours, a few hours later we are up at them and out to explore Auckland city. Already we love Auckland, it's an amzing city, it's twice the size of London with just over one million people, it's really spread out but the centre is quite small, small enough to walk everywhere, we're down at the Harbour side of Queen Street. It's really like Edinburgh, loads of greenery, plenty familiar shops and loads of English accents. We set about exploring the centre, the Sky Tower, the Harbour Bridge, Albert Park and down the Waterfront. Now Fiona said that we would save money here and it is really cheap, well the
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