• Auckland NZ Feb 4th

    February 4, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F

    Our last day in Auckland. Up early for a trip to the gym then out for our excursion for a walking tour and taste of Auckland.
    First stop was at a hotel for coffee paired with various cheese, a date jam and crackers. I know, coffee and cheese sounds nasty but it worked! Then to a local chocolate store. We had bon bons and also a really tasty chocolate tea that tasted just like hot chocolate (but it did not have any milk and was zero calories, the flavor was from the tea). Then we finished at a marina side restaurant where we sat outside and had a seafood sampler. The seafood was mussels, oysters, shrimp and was all wonderful to taste the local foods here.
    Afterwards we took an Uber went to another local pub (Galbraiths ale house) that Scott really wanted to go to since they had cask ale. They had a really nice outside beer garden area where we sat. While we were there we heard 2 Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac songs on the music they were playing and then a guy set up and played live music and his 3rd song was a great acoustic Rhiannon......what are the odds !!! It really is nice and cool, windy and sunny here today, perfect weather!
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