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May 18, 2004

Auckland

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We arrived safely after quite ashort flight from brisbane with quantas. This was our first quantas flight and we were quite shocked to find how crap they were. Some of the crew were pretty rude,the seats were quite cramped and they showed a movie which was about 15 minutes longer than the flight...I mean whats the point of that!....There not a patch on Emirates. We flew quite a few times with virgin blue in oz and found them really good, more room and much friendlier.
Anyway Auckland....well we thought it was in new zealand but really it appears to be in new asia!....auckland really is full of asian people - immigrants and students. Walking down queens street sometimes we seemd to be the only non asian people around. Apparantly they have had a fairly open door to migrants from asia over the last 20 yrs and the majority have settled in auckland.
After we got over the unexpected culture shock we found its a really nice city. Its known as the city of sails which is a good name as there is numerous harbours dotted around the area.
We went up the city tower which gives amazing views over the city and islands and lets you het your head round the geography of the area. We were staying between the cbd and the parnell area. Parnell is a very up market area which lots of posh cafes and shops etc
We decide to get all cultural and did the maritime and national museums which were pretty good. The maori and polynesian cultures are really interesting.
We went up to the K road to check out some of the bars which were pretty good and chatted to some locals about the changes in the racial mix of the city.
Also visited the victoria market.
Stayed in the aukland city hotel which was pretty good value, we even had a telly, fridge and ensuite!!...oh the luxury!....
Weather isnt bad at all, not as cold as we expected and some sunny days, just wait till we go to the southisland!...After our few days in auckland were off to pick up our 4th camper van for a 3week drive down to queens town.
First stop will be the bay of islands...

Posted by David on May 18, 2004 04:29 AM
Category: New Zealand
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Good to hear that Virgin Blue are muchd better than Quantas. I am looking forward to our Virgin Blue flights in July/August. We have three of them within Oz. Connie

Posted by: Connie on May 25, 2004 09:31 AM

Hey gorgeous boys, been catching up on my reading; sounds truly fabby. The 12 Apostles and Apollo Bay brought lots of happy memories flooding back for me. Controversially we actually like Quantas - so much less stuck up than BA who we normally travelled with but alas we haven't had the pleasure of Emirates!
Much love, Linz xx

Posted by: Linz on May 25, 2004 12:46 PM


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