{"id":643,"date":"2007-12-27T22:42:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/12\/27\/mount-maunganui-and-auckland-again\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T22:42:19","slug":"mount-maunganui-and-auckland-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/12\/27\/mount-maunganui-and-auckland-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Maunganui and Auckland again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Magic bus picked me up again we only had a short journey up to the coast at Mount Maunganui.  This is a popular beach resort and, with the Christmas holiday coming up, it was absolutely heaving.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice long beach, a hill at one end and not much else to be said about the place.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Rotorua\/MountMaunganui_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Rotorua\/MountMaunganui_t.jpg\" title=\"Mount Maunganui.\" alt=\"A hill (silhouetted against the sky) rises behind some tall apartment buildings, below is a sandy beach.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Rotorua\/IslandsFromMountMaunganui_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/Rotorua\/IslandsFromMountMaunganui_t.jpg\" title=\"Mount Maunganui beach and islands seen from the hill.\" alt=\"The ocean surrounds a couple of small islands to the left of a sandy beach.  On the right is a town.  Low sun casts shadows of the town across the beach.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following day was my last on the Magic bus, the usual stops for coffee and scenery and finally arriving in Auckland around 2pm.  I&#8217;d booked into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stayatbase.com\/base-auckland-central-backpackers\/\">Base ACB hostel<\/a>, in an office block right in the centre of Auckland.  Like the other big backpackers I&#8217;ve stayed in it wasn&#8217;t great: creaky bunks, impersonal and the feeling that they&#8217;re trying to extract money out of you every way they can (NZD4 for the washing machine and expensive internet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Magic bus picked me up again we only had a short journey up to the coast at Mount Maunganui. This is a popular beach resort and, with the Christmas holiday coming up, it was absolutely heaving. There&#8217;s a nice long beach, a hill at one end and not much else to be said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}