8 March, 2004

Holiday might be a dubious term for what we did last week but we have, at last, visited Auckland with a vengeance…and left again with even greater vengeance. This has been a goal for a while now but never seemed to happen so last week we finally got there for a decent look around and decided it was lovely to visit but we wouldn’t want to live there.

The good bits revolved around shopping and a particularly good punk gig with Missing Teeth, The Bleeders and Sommerset. Despite feeling old (and deaf) by the end of the show a good time was had by all and Missing Teeth’s Serial had us all singing “Hey ho hey huh ho hee hey” all the way home (can’t sing, don’t care). Being a larger city Auckland had some neat little shops and bigger versions of all the same naff ones – Bigger seems to simply mean more of the same crap. Transport was a bitch…though a relatively cheap bitch so can’t really complain. Lots of cars seems to make for lots of traffic congestion…go figure.

I managed to pick up one of those dribbly not-quite-a-flu thing which I am now trying to beat into submission…with limited success. All a bit gross really.