{"id":747,"date":"2010-03-19T21:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T08:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=747"},"modified":"2010-07-25T21:57:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:57:57","slug":"fri-19-mar-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Fri 19 Mar 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up and out of the house by 6am today – off up to Auckland….<\/p>\n

We stopped at the Flat Hills cafe for some breakfast after a leisurely trip up country – nice “rustic” spot for a break. It has a maze and a few farm animals to look at, but it had started spitting rain so we didn’t bother having too much of a looksee.<\/p>\n

As we left, we passed Mangaweka International airport. A DC3 had obviously over-run the runway and they decided to set up the airport around it! Not quite sure how international “International” is, as a grass strip seems a bit limiting!<\/p>\n

\"Mangaweka<\/a><\/p>\n

We arrived at Auckland airport just after 2pm, in good time to meet Louise’s parents arriving at just gone 3pm, so we parked up at the airport and went for a coffee.<\/p>\n

We popped up to the viewing area after coffee and saw their aircraft pulling off the runway into the pans – trouble was we didn’t know it was theirs at the time Big Frown<\/p>\n

Once the aircraft had been advertised as landed, we rushed down to arrivals to meet Margaret and John as they came through the Arrivals door…….<\/p>\n

A bit of an emotional reunion – but nothing we weren’t expecting! A fair number of hugs and tears followed….<\/p>\n

We packed everything into the hire car and joined the rest of North Island traffic making its way into Auckland in the late afternoon – note to selves, we REALLY don’t like Auckland still. So many people, so many cars!<\/p>\n

After finding the hotel (Note to self – must get road maps of the major cities!), the Barrycourt Quality Hotel<\/a>, and unpacking the luggage quickly, we went out in the car to visit …… Torbay! We got an Indian on the way back, a takeaway meal one, which proved a little difficult as parking isn’t quite as easy as Wellington. However, it was gorgeous, and a lovely accompaniment to the evening views of the harbour from our very spacious hotel room!!<\/p>\n

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