"Scenes of Auckland" a Auckland Travel Page by Kate-Me

A few miscellaneous scenes of the city...this one, a brightly coloured cafe (in a colour I'm really into at the moment) in Kitchener St.

Looking down the hill at the Cafe in Kitchener St.

Kitchener/Wellesley Sts - another view of the Chinese building with the Auckland sky tower in the background.

Another attractive red building on the same corner which caught my attention (seemed to be an Art Gallery).

Just a couple of doors along, I found this semi tropical garden quite attractive. Would have looked much more tropical if the weather hadn't been so grey.

And at the back of the little tropical garden, a surprise. A little mall, very quaint, some shops with old fashioned lanterns and signage outside their shops, and murals painted on the stairs behind the tree.
I think I appreciated it more because it seemed to have been done for decorative purposes, rather than drawing a crowd, as this certainly wasn't a main mall at all. In fact otherwise it was just a cobbled area, quite empty.
If it had been a nice day, I would have found it a nice, quiet, deserted spot to sit and admire the murals and surroundings.

Heading south out of Auckland, we passed the High Court buildings, which were quite interesting to me as they reminded me a little of a castle (and I just love castles)

Queen Street is Auckland's main street, starting at the harbour front and going right up the hill for quite some distance (10 blocks maybe)...and it was at this end (which I dubbed 'the crummy end' where we were staying).
A bit unfortunate really, as the other end is much more interesting.
There were restaurants and a few shops up this end, but a couple at least looked quite grimy. This whole block could do with a decent 'facelift' to bring it into line with the rest of Queen St and the central city.

This row of shops I found interesting because A: they were so run down compared to the rest of the street at the other end, and reminded me a bit of Coronation Street, all identical ( old English TV series popular in NZ)