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Auckland

Auckland Restaurants

March 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

As usual, we found some interesting restaurants while visiting Auckland New Zealand Harbourside Ocean Grill, located in the city’s Ferry Building, is a seafood-centric restaurant where we had three entrée-sized dishes, all of which were good. Whitebait fritter (with lemon and chive butter sauce and fennel was like a whitebait (baby fish) omelet; not quite […]

Filed Under: Auckland, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, New Zealand, Oceania/Australia, Restaurants, Travel

New Zealand’s Waiheke Island

March 3, 2017 Leave a Comment

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A 40-minute ferry ride from the Auckland Harbor is a beautiful island called Waiheke Island. We packed as much as we could into a Day trip. The ferry ride provided nice views of Auckland as well as providing evidence of the dozens of volcanos that created, and whose underlying faults still shake the region on […]

Filed Under: Activities, Auckland, Destination Type, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, New Zealand, Oceania/Australia, Restaurants, Travel, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Te Matuku oysters, Waiheke Island

Auckland Art Gallery

March 3, 2017 Leave a Comment

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Auckland Art Gallery was the only of the city’s museums that we explored while we were in New Zealand’s North Island. The exhibits were wide ranging. These included a couple galleries of European art from the 16thr through 19th centuries, one of European art from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries that provided a high-level […]

Filed Under: Activities, Auckland, Destinations, Featured-City, Museums, New Zealand, Oceania/Australia, Travel Tagged With: Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland New Zealand

February 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

auckland Viaduct Center

Although we have spent a fair amount of time on New Zealand’s North Island on previous trips, our only stop on the North Island this year was confined to Auckland. Auckland is the country’s largest city and commercial center. It was also the place from which our plane to San Francisco departed (which was the […]

Filed Under: Auckland, Destinations, Featured-City, New Zealand, Oceania/Australia, Travel Tagged With: City of Sails, Mauri