We're up early (obviously still jet lagged as I wouldn't usually be up and out before 8am given the option on holiday!) 
Better weather greets us and we spend the entire day walking round Auckland, I'd like to say we walked for miles, but I suspect it wasn't that far!, it's so humid and around 26 degrees today so I have to keep dragging Nige into shops to cool off .... mmm more shoes! (the car boot is already full to bursting with all our luggage so I'm quickly reminded not to buy more! ... spoil sport!). 
Better weather greets us and we spend the entire day walking round Auckland, I'd like to say we walked for miles, but I suspect it wasn't that far!, it's so humid and around 26 degrees today so I have to keep dragging Nige into shops to cool off .... mmm more shoes! (the car boot is already full to bursting with all our luggage so I'm quickly reminded not to buy more! ... spoil sport!). A cruise ship has just docked, the passengers have just 8 hours to explore! - blimey - it took us that long to find the darn quay side .... because 'someone' said he didn't need a map!... ahem!
Finally I find a fountain in Albert park and can't help but dangle my feet in the cool water! (Sorry someone forgot to tell me about my posture in this photo! - I seem to resemble a hippo!)
(but at least I didn't get get told off for dangling my feet in the water!), the views into Auckland from here are great, the sky tower looks rather tall 
.... After hours of persuasion Nigel manages to wear me down enough that I agree to do the sky walk 360 .... a walk high up round the perimeter of the sky tower! .... eeek! (hope the overalls are brown!).
Nope - they are a fetching shade of bright orange! - I look like an over sized satsuma! - and Nige looks like an escapee from Guantanamo bay!. 
Nigel keeps reminding me I managed the bridge climb in Sydney, but as you'll see from the photos, there is no hand rail at all, just a 1 metre wide walk way 192 metres above Auckland. The clearer weather gives us a great view, we can see the streets we wandered this morning, and see more places we need to visit!
We've completed the tourist experience by buying the extortionately expensive photos and video (hardly an Oscar winning performance from me I can tell you!)
Finally I find a fountain in Albert park and can't help but dangle my feet in the cool water! (Sorry someone forgot to tell me about my posture in this photo! - I seem to resemble a hippo!)
(but at least I didn't get get told off for dangling my feet in the water!), the views into Auckland from here are great, the sky tower looks rather tall .... After hours of persuasion Nigel manages to wear me down enough that I agree to do the sky walk 360 .... a walk high up round the perimeter of the sky tower! .... eeek! (hope the overalls are brown!).Nope - they are a fetching shade of bright orange! - I look like an over sized satsuma! - and Nige looks like an escapee from Guantanamo bay!. Nigel keeps reminding me I managed the bridge climb in Sydney, but as you'll see from the photos, there is no hand rail at all, just a 1 metre wide walk way 192 metres above Auckland. The clearer weather gives us a great view, we can see the streets we wandered this morning, and see more places we need to visit!We've completed the tourist experience by buying the extortionately expensive photos and video (hardly an Oscar winning performance from me I can tell you!)
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