New place w/ a view!

Today I'm enjoying a beautiful view of the city from our new apartment in Devonport! We've been here just over a week and we're loving it. Since we were tired of the construction noise in the city and were hoping for a more scenic (beach friendly) spot, we looked around at several suburbs of Auckland. After days of searching online we finally found a place worth looking at... we looked, discussed over lunch, and called back to take it!

It's a cute flat that's actually part of our landlord's house (yet totally separate as far as living space) with corner windows that look out over the harbor and city skyline. It's even got a tiny porch and flowerbed/lawn outside... which we'd been dying for after being cooped up in our downtown apartment. Just down the hill is the main street of Devonport as well as Andy's office and we can easily hop on the ferry to go into the city and don't feel like driving. It was fully furnished and incredibly clean and our landlords are great! They're really nice and have make this move a breeze... even had us over for drinks.

I've got a much better working space here, Andy can come home for lunch, we're even closer to the gym, grocery store, etc. and several beaches are a short walk away. It's also really exciting to see all the activity in the harbor... yachts racing, barges coming and goes and even the occasional navy ship coming in. Anyway, enough talking about that... take a look: (you can click them to see more or go to my Picasa album)