Despite a decent-ish sleep on the flight, we were definitely feeling the effects when we got to Auckland. We needed our wits about us too, as New Zealand is very strict when it comes to biosecurity. We were given the entry form and even though we knew what we were letting ourselves in for, it was still a bit of a surprise to tick most of the boxes for bringing in stuff. Admittedly, the form says tick "Yes" if you are not sure, but we had wood carvings (a tiki from the North Shore), foodstuffs and had definitely been in a forest a few days earlier.
The officials were quite cheery and efficient and once we had explained why we were declaring everything, they seemed quite content to check things over and let us through. A short bus ride to the hotel and even though we were an hour early for the prearranged early checkin time of 10am, the room was all ready for us.
Good job too, as I immediately flaked out on the bed for a couple of hours. Could have gone on a lot longer as well but we both felt slightly guilty for doing nothing on one of our two and a bit days in the city. So we headed out into the rain and did a short bit of wandering around.
You know what? Auckland is boring.
There isn't that much to do. The SkyCity tower is not much cop on a rainy day like the one we were experiencing. It is a nice enough city, don't get me wrong, clean, not busy at all. But staying down near the harbour, there was sod all to see and do really.
Probably didn't help that we were so tired, so an early night.
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