Seventh day in Auckland , New Zealand

My first days just went in running to travel agencies and Air New Zealand officies
for some formalities plus arranging my coming routes here and partly in Australia too. I also spent a lot of time looking U.S.Open of tennis in my hotel room with some resfresment or in local pubs.
Yesterday I however had a very interesting harbour cruise almost privately because only a young Japanese couple was there with me, and I had a plenty of time to teach the capitan and the bar tender the history of Finland. I also learned a lot . I never knew that at the end of 19th century Russia was a real threat here too.
Afterwards I visited for several hours The Maritime Museum, and it was the best I've ever seen. And I have been in many of those around the world.
Today I spent first the morning hours in the magnificent Sky Tower about 200m over surface and then had a snapper lunch at the beautiful marina of Viaduct harbour.
It also was the first warm day during my visit as long the sun was there, until 3.30pm.
There was yesterday also a nice surprise, when I did check out from my CityLife Hotel. The clerk just said to me, wait a minute and vanished coming soon back with
another pretty lady. I thought that someting is wrong but the new young lady just smiled friendly and asked, if I am from Finland in Finnish.She was the Assitant Manager of the hotel and years away from Finland and from our home town Helsinki.
Her name was Sanna Jurvainen, and it might be possible that she is moving back to Finland some day , her next destination however is Irland, her boy friend's home country.