Harbour lights…

From Remuera, we headed to the waterfront in the Auckland CBD and stopped by the Harbour Bridge…

…for a few snapshots…

…and then proceeded to where the yachts were berthed…

Auckland…

…is known as “The City of Sails”…

…so you can get to see lots of them all over…

There was even a luxury cruise liner in town that day…

After that, we stopped by the fish market to look around…

It was around lunch hour so the cafes…

…at the market were very packed. I imagined they would be eating stuff like fish and chips and the like at those places…and I certainly liked their catch line: “From our boats to your plate!”

Everything looked very fresh…

…and they provided free cutting and filleting…

I was wondering at the time why they called this fish “grand-daddy”…

…and I did not know that New Zealand had the 4th largest marine fishery in the world…

All I knew was that it had more sheep than people in the country. LOL!!!

Hey!!! If I had been there on the 1st of December, I would have met Peta Mathias…

What? NZ$115.00??? Hmmm…no, thank you. No great loss that I wasn’t there after all. Muahahahaha!!!

There was a shop adjoining the market selling all kinds of products…

…ranging from their version of the ikan salai (smoked fish)…

…to the celebrated caviar…

They also had some cooked stuff on sale too…

…and I thought they all looked pretty good…

…and the prices seemed quite reasonable…

– just don’t convert it to the Malaysian ringgit…

Well, after that tour of the fish market, we went for lunch. Wanna join us, anybody? See you in the next post! Ta-ta!!!

I love Paris…

After our breakfast that morning, we went walking around the shops in Remuera and with Christmas round the corner, the whole place was very gaily decorated. I liked how they had lines from popular Christmas songs going from shop to shop…

I bet everyone knows the title of this one!

Santa was walking around distributing candy to kids but I did not manage to take a photo of him. We were stopped by one of his elves though…

…who was doing some kind of a survey as to how they would be able to improve their town.

This was outside a bakery there…

…and as you can see, the things were quite reasonable priced – NZ$3 for a loaf of bread, for instance, as long as you do not covert it into Malaysian ringgit.

In the meantime, my friend’s hubby had finished what he had to do that morning and was able to join us eventually. He had not had his breakfast so we stopped at this French-themed deli…

Hmmmm…I think the signs looked like they would need a new coat of paint…

…but it really was a very nice place though…

…and they had macarons…

…of many different colours and also the goodies for Christmas…

Hey! Those on the right looked like what we had when we were kids except that ours had different colours, not all green like those – the ones where we would eat the royal icing and leave the biscuits behind.

My friend’s hubby ordered a croissant…

…which was just so-so. The stuffed or flavoured one was a lot nicer…

…and I liked it a lot. I also loved this, whatever it is called…

…and this roll was very good too…

The glazed tarts were all right…

– I guess everyone knows by now that I am more into savoury stuff and things that are not very sweet.

Ooooo….I loved the washroom at this place so much…

– so very different and unique, I would say…and I wonder what they have in the safe beside the toilet bowl…

LOL!!!

My friend loved what we tried and I am sure she would be going back there again…and again.