Auckland Skywalk City houses a rotating restaurant with glass elevators so you can watch the ground disappear beneath you and in the basement they pay homage to Peter Jacksons WETA studio (the one that made those little Lord of the Rinky Dinks movies). Not bad for a guy who started with his first feature called Bad Taste (cracking little Alien movie too).

Wandering around we bumped into a fish eating monster with bad breath and hair stood next to Gollum (gonna get a slap for that).

Since we only ate 4 hours ago we decided to have steak and champagne in the Skywalk tower served by a Harry Potter lookilikee (poor kid), whilst watching people free fall off the tower (on a line of course), or for the princely sum of 140NZD (about 75 in UK monopoly money), you can put on a harness and walk around the top of the tower without any handrails, personally think I’d rather use the dosh on the fizzy falling down water.

And now that our room is ready its back to the hotel for a shower and a desperate change of clothes, considering we have been in transit since Saturday and today is Tuesday.

The hotel is not exactly a backpackers place of worship (having seen a few of those this am) however it has seen better days. That said we do have a view of the sea and all the usual amenities.

And now two days to see what Auckland has to offer before we collect the hire car and drive to Thames on Thursday.