today i tried out a few potential bus routes to and from work. Auckland’s bus services are a riddle to understand as they are run by a number of different bus companies making weekly season tickets tricky to comprehend. Anyway, i think i’ve found my ideal bus (!) which goes from the local village bus station. This being NZ the only real way to get to the bus station is by car. d’oh. although i may chose to walk to it anyway (30 minutes) if the weather looks ok.
i know you all like roads, so here is a photo taken from a bridge just outside my new office.
you can just about make out the harbour bridge middle left in the picture above which connects North Shore to Auckland across the harbour. It’s quite a car bottleneck which is another reason to look at public transport options.
i had a quick mooch round auckland town whilst i was down there. i like how this gift shop didn’t try to overhype its products. and there’s a number of home-from-home type places for visiting tourists.
meanwhile jane set about making new friends at the school gate and has got herself a few new coffee chums lined up. she met one of them around the lost property bin (kez’s items are stil awol) so that was nice. And she also had a lovely morning with our lovely NZ friend Wendy.
and the girls had another fun day at school.
after school the girls went swimming in the outside pool in the holiday cottage complex, and after tea we did some excellent Skyping to Jane’s sister’s family. there was something about today’s Skype conversations which just worked better than previously – i think the novelty factor has worn off, and it’s now just about staying in touch. and that’s jolly good.
we’ve now got a long weekend ahead of us as monday is a bank holiday ‘labour day’. tomorrow we’ve decided to go to the Labour weekend horse races so we’ll have to see how that goes ! rain is forecast for monday’s bank holiday which is one tradition i’d hoped we’d left behind. oh well.
toodle pip
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If you commuted in that nice black trimaran, I reckon your commute time would be down to single digits 🙂
ah yes, i forgot to mention that i saw that boat down at the harbour. i’m not sure if i could drive to work – even if i got it in to the creek, which is tidal, so must be connected to the sea, i suspect it’s not going to make it up the hilly streets from downtown auckland up to K-Road
Talking of boats, I see your container has made it to the Suez canal. By the way what is a ‘K-road’? Do you have a link to a map so that we can see we can get an idea of how all these places relate to each other?
thanks dad – here’s a map of the route from the bus station to work: http://tinyurl.com/yhq7skl