Sunday. Pretty much a day of rest, some housekeeping and playing with the computer with a couple of walks down to the beach thrown in. I've lost track of the number of languages I've heard spoken here, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Dutch and Russian for starters, together with a bit of English. There are language schools in Auckland and the kids descend on Mission Bay in droves in their spare time. We've just come back from the cinema, Mrs Palfrey at the Clairmont, it was very good. I don't remember it being released at home. After the pictures, a walk down to the sea front to check the water between us and Rangitoto for signs of steam, but nothing yet. Tomorrow, we depart early for Northland.