Auckland

Not too much to report in Auckland, it's a nice quiet, clean city and a good place to catch up on sleep after the long flight/get some planning done at the start or end of a trip.

The weather was perfection as it's spring here- sunny and warm but not too hot.

One thing we did do though was to walk up to Mount Eden- a grassy inactive volcano a couple of miles outside of the city centre. We timed it for sunset and it didn't disappoint. We also got chatting to a group of Welsh women sat next to us- turns out they were the Welsh Rugby team! Sadly just off the back of being knocked out of the competition by the Kiwi's, but still full of beans*. Even more randomly, I found out later that one if them is David's friend from uni- small world!

*Speaking of beans, there wasn't a tin opener in the hostel, which resulted in a hilarious half an hour of us attempting to get it open with a number of different implements before a German woman got out a knife and smashed it open for us. In Heinzsight, we should've checked first...

View from Mount Eden ^^^

Sunset at Mount Eden ^^^^