Day 126 Auckland, New Zealand

Wednesday 12th October 2005

14.11.05 16 °C

Luckily I had researched my New Zealand book and had written down all the places I was hoping to visit. I was actually surprised when I woke up as I wasn’t feeling jetlagged at all and managed to make it downstairs in time for breakfast.
First we all decided to head over and have a look at the Auckland Museum and had a nice walk through Parnell on the way. After looking around the museum though I was a little bit disappointed as there wasn’t really that much of interest worth seeing and it wasn’t the type of place where I would go back again and again unlike the museums ive been to in London. Still the whole area where the museum stands is very nice and you get a good view from here of the sea and other areas around Auckland. We then walked back along the university grounds and over to Albert Park which I imagine on a summers day is a lovely place to sit and relax in. By then the sun was out and as we had already seen in the short space of time we had been here the weather can change so quick so we thought it would be a good idea to go to the top of the Sky Tower now. Of all the tall buildings we had been up on the trip so far this one was by far the cheapest and once the lift had took us to the top I have to say the views totally blew me away. They were far superior to any of the others I had seen in Canada and America and with no other tall buildings around unlike America especially it made it all the more spectacular as you seemed head and shoulders above everything else. I was now starting to like this place even more and wondering whether 53 days was actually going to be long enough even though it’s a small country.
That evening Jill, Simon and I headed back over to Mission Bay where Fiona had taken me the night before and I enjoyed yet another nice Indian meal, although truth be told the reason we went back here was because me being a muppet I had left my camera in there the night before.

View from Sky Tower