Wednesday, November 12, 2008

12th November, Auckland (New Zealand)


Flight from Singapore to Auckland lasted for 8-9 hours, flying over Australia itself took half of the time. Was interesting to watch where are we flying, it is sooooo far from home :) But still, if you fly like we do it, stopping for some days in half way, it is not so awful at all and flying seems quite nice. I am even not afraid of turbulence anymore.

We reached Auckland at midday, sun was shining and it was warmer than i had expected, 18 degrees when we landed. The airport was small but lovely, and we could also meet some Maori's in the airport. Seem friendly, as everybody else here.

We took a shuttle and reached our hotel in 15 minutes. At first glance none of us could decide what Auckland looks like: a bit like London, a bit like Cape Town and the grass smelled like in Estonia :) Our hotel is very well located so we have only few steps to downtown. We walk to downtown to have a quick dinner and wow, it was beautiful to walk there. Somehow it seems very safe and quite here, total chilling place.
It still takes time to get use to the time zone where we are right now, at the moment it is 2:41am (13:41pm in Estonia) and i feel that maybe soon i'm gonna get some sleep.

10 comments:

  1. Kallike, tore kuulda, et te lopuks kohal olete. Head välja puhkamist! ;) Ü.

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  2. Mulle meenub mu Austraalia trip. Ma arvan, et kui ma teie tegemisi edasi loen siis suren varsti nostalgiast ja kadedusest maha :D
    Nautige hetke :)
    Signe

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  3. Ave ja Kata! Väga vinged tipsid olete. Kas käite pea alaspidi? Ethel

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  4. Tere kõigile, kes Te meile kaasa elate. Jah, oleme tõepoolest kohal ja nagu ka blogis kirjutasin, on siin erakordselt lahe. Siin on lihtsalt nii smooth, chill ja safe olla, et me oleks justkui Jumala peopesa sees. See, kuidas nad siin oma asja ajavad ja kõige selle juures nii rahulikud ja armsad on, paneb tõsiselt mõtlema, miks meil asjad nii ei ole...

    Tõsiselt, ma ei taha siit üldse ära tulla.

    A.

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  5. mhmh, sweet paik jah, mai mõista kah mix ma sealt ära tulin. ainuke põhjendus, et saaks sinna tagasi minna:D

    enjoy
    p.s fun is the key

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  6. Tervitused kylamst Connecticutist, hetkel on tuul ja november ka'sika'es.
    Tahaks lugeda sooja maa uudiseid.
    Karin

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  7. Halloooo, no juba mitu päeva ei mingeid uudiseid. Kuhu kadusite?
    Signe

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  8. eks nad naudivad loodust.) iga p2ev pole ka internetis vaja olla.)

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