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• events, sport

  Dust off your boat shoes

  03.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Auckland. It’s great, but it’s not all noodle bars and car-fes. No, we live in the city of sails, team, and the Auckland International Boat Show is on this weekend. It’s all happening in and around the Viaduct basin, with a fine array of boats and yachts in all shapes, sizes and budgets, as well [...]

• anecdotal, sport

  The lanes, they are a’changing

  03.02.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Auckland is not a cycling town. Turn up to work on a bike, and people assume you ‘flat’ with your parents, and aren’t moving out anytime soon. Auckland’s city councils are trying to push cycling with a network of new cycle ways, but come on – this is Auckland, it’s all Beemers, drive through hairdressers [...]

• sport

  Aucklandista guide to watching international Cricket this summer

  01.31.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Cricket’s a summer bat and ball game invented by England but perfected by the West Indies, India, Pakistan and Australia (boo!). Being English, there’s a whole bunch of complicated rules, but they won’t concern you when you’re deciding if you can still eat a hot dog dropped in a beer. Keen to get involved? There’s [...]

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