Ponsonby

After Auckland city centre we’ve moved on to one of its trendiest suburbs, Ponsonby. Ponsonby is about 15 minutes out of town on the bus, and the main street, imaginatively named Ponsonby Road, is lined with supper cool cafes, restaurants where you can eat outside even if its freezing, and bars which look like you need a fistful of cash to get in. Needless to say, on our frugal Yorkshire traveller budget, we’ve avoided the aforementioned establishments and found the café which serves the best pot of tea/black coffee combo.
Not that much to do around here really except chill out, which we’ve become very good at. There’s a couple of parks to wander in, and on one day we went on a massive walk to find a big fruit shop we spied earlier in the week.

Today we got a ferry from downtown Auckland across the water to a lovely little place called Devenport. Robyn was very excited, as it was her first trip on a ferry…ever! She liked it. When we got to Devenport we had a big walk up a big hill which used to be a volcano, and saw some tool trying to do some hand gliding (if that’s how you say/spell it). We politely asked if we could watch and take pictures, and then stood for at least 15 minutes while he stood still holding his parachute up in the wind, and eventually it just fell down, so we left him to it. Have a look at the picture, its probably as exciting to look at as a picture as it was stood there in real life.

On a brighter note, we’ve arranged our first Help Exchange, at a beef farm north of Auckland. Should be a massive change from anything we’ll have done on this trip so far, so we’re both looking forward to it!

Campervan time on Saturday!!! Look out drivers on the North Island!