So this is it: Ruth and Mark's travel blog for our amazing trip around the world. Thanks for visiting! Come back soon to see where we are in Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Auckland: our last few days in New Zealand and a meeting with my brother

It's amazing how things work out sometimes: there we are travelling through New Zealand, and my brother gets invited by the New Zealand Tourism Board to travel NZ at the same time! So for the third time this year, I got to see my brother! We last saw him at the beginning of August, during the first few weeks of our trip, when we spent a weekend together in Hamburg and Sylt. And now we got to spend some time together at the end of our trip...how cool is that?

Reunited in Auckland, at a small restaurant in the neighbourhood of Mt. Eden, near our hostel "The Bamber House". We were trying to have a last NZ lamb feast - but they were out of lamb!?!















In the park:
















Downtown Auckland:


After Patrick left, Mark and I still had a day to explore Auckland, so we took a ferry to Rangitoto, a relatively new volcanic island.



View of Auckland Harbor from the ferry:














Rangitoto Island:

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