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The bouquet I got for Julia; protea are the fuzzy red things at the bottom.
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(800x546, 61.9KB)		 Also, orchids, all sorts of pretty stuff.
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(800x550, 55.6KB)		 More flowers.
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(800x557, 47.8KB)		 The motorway is surprisingly surrounded by green space, given it runs through the middle of town.
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A kitchenware shop that has no qualms about advertising its religious affiliations. Somehow, it seems like this would make more sense on carpenter's or something, not somewhere selling knives.
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(800x550, 71.3KB)		 The hostel we stayed in for our first few days in Auckland.
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(800x548, 100.5KB)		 Lion Rock, I think, by the beach where they filmed The Piano; we stopped here after going canyoning. (the shots of canyoning itself are in a different folder).
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(800x549, 37.0KB)		 One of the many Mowers And Cycles shops in Auckland. When I asked how this combination happened to come about, everyone said
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A large inflatable dog advertising used cars -- now, large inflatable roadside things aren't so strange, but what I want to know is what happened to its eyes?
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(408x600, 36.0KB)		 Another Mowers and Cycles shop.
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(800x547, 57.7KB)		 View from our balcony.
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(800x551, 74.4KB)		 View down from our balcony.
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View round the corner from our balcony; Aotea Square is the treed area right in the center of the picture.
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(800x550, 63.3KB)		 The best easter egg I could find the day after Easter. That'll teach me to try and beat the system to get a bargain..
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(702x600, 65.0KB)		 Julia's tin of Anzac Biscuits.
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(651x600, 56.5KB)		 The Grafton Gully Project, an attempt to rationalise the on/offramps to the motorway through Auckland. It's pretty much completed now, but it was impressive to see how much they did while it was going on.
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There's quite a lot of stairs that go, well, nowhere in Auckland; this is one of them.
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(800x508, 31.6KB)		 Random houses somewhere in Auckland.
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Misc. shots from around Auckland.
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