Thursday 1st -2nd Nov. Aukland
Took a bus from the top of the road at Opua into Aukland,
about a 4 hr ride and then a taxi to our airbnb in the
Ponsenby district- rather a nice suburb with trendy
homewear shops and cafes. The bnb was an apartment in a
rather utilitarian block of identical apartments. We were
met by the owner who had bought the flat for his soon to
be student at uni daughter but was paying the bills with
some bnb in the hols. As he had just aquired it he had
made an extra effort hoping for good reviews with generous
quantities of asparagus in the fridge and loads of
biscuits, beer and breakfast stuff to boot. He seemed too
young to have a uni age dughter but they do seem to
reproduce young here.
We had booked for 2 nights so had a full day exploring
Aukland- bus in, walk up to the museum, round the
harbour, fish market, searching for a wool shop, and back
to Ponsenby for an asparagus omelette.