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Hi from Aukland. We are only here for 2 days so theres probably not much to say about it but I will try - everyone who lives here tells us not to stay in Aukland cause theres nothing to see. The only tourist attraction is the big tower thing thats celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Sadly, as the ever-cynical Roisin keeps pointing out, it looks like they have just built the thing so that they have something! In saying that, we quite like the city, it feels quite British actually I could probably live here if I had to...and the views from the tower were quite nice I suppose (we'll put on the photos when we can). Roisin got a bit of a fright while taking a photo of grainne at the top of the tower, when a person flew by the window. This seems to be a big thing in Aukland, I think in New Zealand in general actually - all the tourist marketing kindof revolves round bungy jumping and parachutinging and active things like that which is weird. Yeah so we spend last night there basically just taking pictures up on the tower as theres not much else to do. Ro and Grainne are away on a bus tour today , I stayed in cause I was sick last night (ate the hostel food last night im blaming that) ..so I didnt want to be stuck on a bus...turned out I probably could have gone after all but its been quite good as I sneaked off to the shops and bought some clothes (its winter here and being so optimistic I didnt actually bring a pair of long trousers with me so popped out to get a pair. Amazingly- and much to my surprise- I actually managed to haggle down the price!??) Also managed to do a washing today..so all is not lost. Im about to go to see if me and G can change our flights out of singapore so we can spend another day with Ro, we managed to change our last flight so fingers crossed! We're staying in a really nice hostel here called Base Backpackers. We are in an all girls floor called the Sanctuary which provides us with nice fluffy towels and some 'aveda' freebies which kept me and Ro's faces happy. Anyway, the girls might add to this when they get back from their wee trip - im away to get my washing. Thanks to much to the mums and pat for your messages we feel very loved!! Till next time,
Louise :)
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