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Thread ID: 104667	2009-11-04 09:35:00	Back from Auckland	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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827131	2009-11-05 00:09:00	Get in, Get boozed, Go see the Concert, Sleep, Get the hell out of there.... Hehe this guy's living in the fast lane. :p I don't like the CBD either though I go there nearly everyday for uni. I'd much rather live in a suburban or rural place. Preferably with some wide open field/bush. Anything is better than the feet-ridden, monotonous faced city.	qazwsxokmijn (102)
827132	2009-11-05 08:17:00	I have always flew out of Auckland by switching to the international airport terminal . So I spent, 2 nights in AKL, and I used the Overlander which was :thumbs: I was based in AKL CBD . Correct me but I found that the locals tended to stay at their own areas than to travel into the CBD . I found the supermarkets were far away and without my own vehicle nor a rental vehicle I just made do without it and pay high dollars for items . I knew there was one at Quay St and one at College Hill St, requiring a 15min bus ride . Since I was only there for 2 nights or really 1 night since I arrived into AKL in the evening I only wanted to get snack food to take back on the train back with me . Being Asian myself I found that there are more in AKL, I have friends of family who have said they thought they were in overseas when they spent some time in AKL . The ethnic of food was better . I find that Queens Street doesn't have as much corporate workers as Wellington . I presume people work outside the CBD and they have a more share of students, tourists and migrants . There wasn't a big thing of the Waterfront . They have the bars but it is not a afternoon family place for a run or a stroll . At night it was pretty much a alcohol scenery . I didn't put much focus on it but found it lacked of a real civic centre, Aotea Sq was being worked on, the museum and art gallery and public library tended to be not linked . Heaps of convenience stores, souvenir stores, and kebab shops but Queens Street doesn't really have a lot of night life . People tended to concentrate around the cheap areas and internet cafes . The cheapest place I found for a coke was $2 at McDonalds . Here are my questions about AKL . For those who are based in the CBD with no private motor vehicles, could you get a groceries for a fair price in the CBD and go back to your apartment and cook it up? Could you get a nice western lunch meal in the CBD - like a salad with lamb for approx $15 or a brunch for the same price like Eggs Benedict with bacon or salmon and toast . Ex . the coffee . Wellington you could get that for $12 at some places . I saw Pandora Bakery, we in Wellington tend to have tables where you can order a toasted panini and a coffee or a salad lunch with a coffee but in AKL appeared to be takeaways without eat in tables . I guess the bridge isn't a tourist stage as Sydney despite being the same designers I was told, being based in the CBD wasn't really accessible . I did see the Auckland Museum thou, not the Maritime Museum althou I am not a sea person and the $16 entry fee . I took a LINK bus around my $1 . 60 :D stopped at the museum and then walked down Parnell and went into Verne cafe for lunch the one next to Starbucks, the coffee was great but the $16 salad lunch was actually a entree instead with 5 slices of salmon with a sauce over and coriander leaves . Is that a salad? Coming from Wellington we are used to a $16 real salad with salmon as a lunch meal or add $4 with a coffee . Is there much to do in Auckland? On the train back home, I did see some grocery places near the train station, like supermarkets, Fruit World, Tai Ping but they are much further away from the CBD . Hence my thought that locals tended to stay in their own areas . The fellas after work hours in the CBD I found were mostly students or tourists . At the Asian eateries were mostly students I think . Good prices and more selection than Wellington thou :thumbs: I did see the Sky Tower but seen it before, and not into gambling . Did walk up to the the 1st or 2nd floor thou above ground . Cheers . An excellent summary Nomad A few years ago there was a wonderful restaurant with great food and prices called Caravanserai but one day we went to go there and the whole block had been pulled down . However there is a good food court in the building which houses Borders and some cinema theatres . It has both European and Asian food . Additionally some PressF1 people, including myself, enjoyed ourselves at an Asian foodcourt less than a week ago . That was in Albert St, parallel with Queen St . Misty :)	Misty (368)
827133	2009-11-05 08:38:00	..........on second thoughts, where can you buy a panini alfresco in Lambton Quay. You usually have to go off the street and up one floor ! Cuba St you do have them galore, but not Lambton Quay. Also I am forgetting the cafes in Auckland CBD on High St where you can get a panini etc. That is again parallel to Queen St and just a very short distance. Misty :D	Misty (368)
827134	2009-11-05 19:41:00	*sigh* I remember going there as a kid for lunch. Wasn't there a playground there as well? And a tearooms where you could park your parents while wearing out pedal cars on the tar-sealed open air battle zone. The viewing tower went out of fashion with my friends after one got severely molested by some pervert lurking there. Probably around 1948.	R2x1 (4628)
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