Friday, April 14, 2006

Day 309 - Auckland, New Zealand

Day 309 – 13th April 2006 +11:00 GMT Total Miles 60731

We drove to Mount Eden which has a lookout over all of Auckland, it has a huge crater in the middle of it as I presume it was once a volcano. I took several photos and admired the view and walked around the crater.


View of Auckland from Mount Eden


View of One Tree Hill from Mount Eden

I then drove to New Market which is a suburb of Auckland and we stopped for some food and a wonder around the shops. We decided to buy some wine as we were leaving as it was cheap so we stocked up. We stopped on queen street and bought some DVD’s and then headed back to the hostel. We watched some TV on the laptop for a while and then walked to the Kings Arm venue to see Jill’s favourite band The (International) Noise Conspiracy from Sweden who were doing their first New Zealand gig. We arrived at the venue around 8:20pm and had a few drinks, the first band came on at 9:15pm they were The Mint Chicks a kiwi band. The (International) Noise Conspiracy came on about 10:15pm. The gig was fantastic and Jill and I were on the front row.


The (International) Noise Conspiracy


Dennis

They played for around 90 minutes and then after the gig we got chatting for 20 minutes or so with Inge the bass player.


Inge

On our way out we got to met Dennis the frontman of the band and Jill got her photo taken with him. We had a chat with him and then had to leave as the venue shut at midnight.


Jill and Dennis

Everywhere had to shut at Midnight as no one is aloud to open on Good Friday. So we headed back to the hostel, had a nice cup of tea and went to bed.

1 Comments:

Blogger kateyay said...

rock and roll!! or not, as the case may be!

it still winter back here - cold, rainy, rubbish, a\nd good friday, so everythings shut or not working or...aargh easter is pants!!

happy easter guys - its been lovely having a read about what you're up to, dont stop updating it! :)

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