2 weeks and 2 countries into our trip! We arrived to Auckland on Monday and have had an excellent week in the city. We've rented an AirBnB in the city center that bosts 'a small space with big views'. It's an extremely small studio, fortunately it was very affordable, perfect location and offers a great view of the city sky line! We're located a 15 minute walk from Ponsonby Street where we've found some fantastic eats, lots of art shops and great window shopping. We stopped in at a restaurant called Mexico which served up an impressive selection of tequilas, this really put Chris in his happy place! K'Street (Karangahape Road) is at our front door and is a hipsters paradise. Pot shops, nudey bars, music stores and second hand shops galore. Despite how this sounds it's actually really charming with lots of restaurants and pubs to choose from, and excellent people watching! Tuesday we set out for the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Don't let the name fool you, while the exterior and 3rd floor are dedicated as a memorial space, it's a very well rounded gallery. The First floor has an extensive Maori and south pacific art collection. There are full reconstructions of Maori buildings and active restoration projects happening on display. It was awesome to see they had viewing windows to showcase the restoration and preservation projects occurring throughout the museum as well. Chris and I spent 4 hours in the gallery and didn't notice the time pass until the we got word the museum was closing at 5pm! The weather hasn't been very cooperative this week unfortunately. Wednesday we got soaked while exploring the Viaduct Harbour and Wynyard Quarter. Despite the rain we were really impressed with the Habour area in the city with tons of excellent restaurants to choose from and lots of impressive boats including Auckland's America Cup racing boats. We only got a little bit lost trying to walk back after taking the long road home in the rain. Today, our final day in Auckland, the rain seemed to be letting up so we headed to Waiheke Island. For $45.00 each we received a round trip ferry ticket for Auckland's downtown harbour and a full day bus ticket which stopped at several wineries and beaches. Overall we've really enjoyed Auckland! Tomorrow we pick up our motorhome and start our big road trip to Queenstown. We have the RV for 36 days so we can really take our time exploring both the North Island and the South!
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