A rainy weekend in Auckland - just the excuse we needed to go for a walk up Maungakiekie, one of the 48 volcanoes in our beautiful city. It was a bit of a mistake to go cross-country instead of sticking to the road because even though it was a lot more scenic (and there were sheep) it was really slippery and muddy. I still don’t get the relevance of an Egyptian obelisk being at the top but the views from Mangere to Rangitoto are well worth the climb. One funny thing, Malcolm
read on one of the signs that the volcano’s only 20,000 years old and pointed out that nuclear ‘experts’ say we can safely store nuclear waste for 500,000 years. Go figure.