Monday 12th, day 14

So, that is more or less it, or so it seemed. Today is dank and miserable. We go for a spin around Auckland but give the ferry a miss due to the rain and wedi blino. We go up to active volcano Mt Eden. You can see a bit- the city is a huge sprawl (largest city in terms of area in Southern hemi) and the crater looks good! but it was horribly wet n windy. Shed and marshy strick a cracking deal on the Adidas 50/50 Lions/AB shirt. Instead of 240-280 NZ$ we pay $100 minus airport tax, brilliant. We get one each.
In the evening Gappa leads us over the top of Queens St, an area of 'ill repute' for a looksee. However there are no dubious ladies about, no doubt just having had the biggest week/weekend since the last lions tour. The sex shops and strip joints are all closed as well (thank goodness) and after much trudging through the rain we stop at a bikers pub that has a few ex pat tendencies and sells Tetleys amongst other stuff. Theres some e**lish boys from Hong Kong just on their way home. They agree about it being woodys fault so theres no arguments. Apart from a couple of stoned kids the pub is empty but Louie pulls a right dog (see picture) kissing and kanoodoling away. we head back through the rain to the Queens head. Gappa has a go in the casino where the jackpot accross the machines has to go before it reaches $NZ1000. It's up to 900 'it'll go tonight!" gappa tells us but we head for bed before it does. Last night in NZ is over, all thoughts turned to home.