Northbound after 10 days in the South

Day 14- Honeymoon

Time to bid farewell to South Island, having spent 10 days in this part of the region, we both agree that South Island still has many hidden treasures tucked away – so we’d be back again!

Grabbing our morning breakfast of hot soup and toast, we were mindful of time as our airport shuttle was at 1pm and we needed to return our rented to car before that. Trying to pack our morning with as much as we can cope we did a little shopping and strolled onto the Botanical Gardens. By then it was 12noon meaning that we had only 20 mins at the most at the garden. The 20mins went by so quickly we leaked into half an hour, by then we were quite frantic since our car was still with us and the shuttle will be picking us up in exactly another half hour.

Stamping my mark

Botanical Garden at Christchurch

Needless to say the next few mins was absolute mayhem! I was pressured into giving right directions to Terence (since we cannot afford a wrong turn) coupled with that I had to pack all our barangs in the car ready to hand over the key... Thankfully we caught the shuttle, but the chaos was not over yet! In the airport we were still stuffing in our huge chunky coats and piles of brochures collected along the way! Stuffing, cramming, fitting and finally zipping our bags – finally it was checked in and headed north bound.


Mayhem!

A relief that the stress was over!

Touching down in Auckland we checked into Copthorne Harbourside Hotel with fantastic views of the seas and bobbing yachts. Without a car now our only mode of transport was our legs! Taxi’s are ridiculously expensive and we were not too bothered about finding out the bus routes as everything is within close proximity. We walked to the Auckland Sky Tower (something like KL Tower) for a night view of the busy city. Terence took some great shots at the observation deck.

Our last agenda for the night was walking eight blocks from our hotel to Foodtown to purchase foodies for back home. Stacking up our trolley we bought biscuits, chocs, feijoas, kiwis, soups, pastas, chips and cereal. We find ourselves doing this all the time, instead of buying clothes we’d buy foodies back home. And since we have our own home now, we’d love to serve our guests with bites from NZ!


Say a lil' prayer


Auckland from the Sky Deck


Auckland Sky Tower


Part of the city at night