It was really exciting looking out over the places where we grew up, where our children were born and went to school.  The memories came flooding back. The Auckland Town Hall The Auckland Town Hall was opened in 1911. In 1997 it had a $33 million restoration that kept the elegance of its original Edwardian Baroque design.  The Town Hall Concert Chamber  has the finest acoustics in the Southern Hemisphere. The Marina at the base of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Looking out towards Mission Bay and Orakei Looking Down the Harbour

The Auckland Harbour Bridge The opening of the Auckland harbour bridge in 1959 opened the North Shore area for residential expansion. Prior to the bridge being constructed the only methods of reaching the North Shore was either by vehicular or passenger ferry or by road through West Auckland, River Head and Albany, a distance of over 40 klms. When it was first constructed the bridge only had 4 lanes which catered to 2 lanes of traffic in each direction. During times of congestion the number of lanes open in a given direction could be changed.  It didn’t take long before the bridge…

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Up early and down for breakfast.  At $33.00 I did not feel that the breakfast on offer was value for money so my advice is to go out and eat at one of the nearby cafes for breakfast. Then it was off to the Sky Tower for an impressive 360 degree view of Auckland city. At 328 metres, the Sky Tower is taller than the Eiffel Tower (324 metres) and the Sydney Tower at 304 metres, so it is pretty impressive, we have however been up the Pearl in Shanghai and it measures an impressive 468 metres making it the 3rd highest…

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