Sacha Baran Cohen appears to be following us around. First he turns up in Sydney, then Melbourne - same jokes each time of course - and now the c*** holds us up for ages on our flight to Auckland with his lackey's piss poor attempt to get him and his 20 strong entourage VIP treatment. Nice to be on our favoured upper deck of a Jumbo when we finally got going. Iain decided his mission today was to sneak some (gummy) snakes on the m*****f****** plane and past New Zealand's strict food customs police. Success. Good flight but getting slightly annoyed on learning that we've lost two more hours en route (Iain says: Dinner time and I felt I'd just eaten my - admittedly somewhat large - buffet breakfast).
Managed to get a harbour view room by some - justified - moans about the initial room allocated by hotel. Stamford Plaza is in a great location again and it'll be very nice when it's finished. Initial impressions of Auckland are extremely positive, seems like the perfect blend of City and holiday destination we like. Time was getting on a bit so we just investigated the Harbour area and grabbed some dinner at a Mexican cafe. Andie purchased a singing kiwi toy to annoy the cats with on our return. Back in room now planning our activities.
