Finding a good breakfast café near our hotel seems difficult, but we managed to get enough to eat and on the way home stopped at a department store and found Bob a nice merino wool jumper (sweater) on sale.
We walked down to the harbor to get tickets for a harbor cruise, found they were fully booked, but we could get tickets to the suburb of Devonport, an eleven minute ferry ride away as they run every half hour. So we set off at one and shortly arrived at this very pretty town built in the late 1800s by shipping captains who wanted to be able to watch their ships sail into Auckland on their way home from Europe.
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| Esplanade Hotel |
We stopped in at the Esplanade Hotel, an Edwardian hotel with a French restaurant, so we were able to order sliders made of really good beef with just a little cheese and grilled onions on a delicious little bun - no beet root or fried eggs on them!!
We took the walking tour of the town passing many beautiful ornate Victorian cottages and larger houses, most surrounded by typical Santa Barbara plants in full bloom. We returned to Auckland and walked back to our hotel and took naps. Good dinner and drinks at the Aria Restaurant in the hotel - sometimes those hotel restaurants can be surprise you and be really good!.
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| Devonport cottage |
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Gelato break |
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