2 October 2009

I am suffering from Auckland related mixed feelings

So, today I walked from Queen Street to Mount Eden.  I then walked up Mount Eden.  I love my DCs, which have helped me get so far already.  Anyway, so the walk through to the volcano was through all these industrial areas and that's what a lot of Auckland is like; industrial estates and tall business buildings.  It's kind of like Reading in that way.  I don't much like that.

But I went to the top of the volcano and then I looked around and the view was AMAZING.  It really was.  You can see all around you, countryside one way, the city another, sea another, volcanoes another.  I don't know if it's volcanoes or volcanos.  Probably with the e.  I promptly burst into tears because I'm uber cool.  I have no idea why.

So then I came back down and I walked through Auckland Domain, which was awesome and very pretty with duck ponds and mahoosive pigeons and fountains and flowerbeds and weird shaped trees.

Tomorrow to Waiheke Island, with a long list of things to do courtesy of TheKiwi.  I think when I get there I'll find it's basically a list of places to go in order to drink wine and as I plan to hire a bicycle I think it could prove pretty entertaining.

Also my food got stolen.  Twice.  So now I'm Special K-less and toastless.  Bad times.

2 comments:

  1. Woohoo!! I got a mention!! yeah!! That's sooo going on my CV ThePrincess!

    And Auckland is so not industrial estates and tall buildings! We have more!! ... like traffic jams and no public transport! :s

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  2. And an excellent addition to your CV it would be. FACT.

    Yeah, what's with the terrible transport system?! No trains/trams/subway?! It's WEIRD!! But seriously, there are a LOT of industrial estates. Everywhere.

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