24 hours in Auckland, New Zealand

When might you need a holiday after a holiday? When you’ve just spent three fabulously full-on weeks in New Zealand with the Kiwi’s family, hanging out with his parents, four sisters, their partners and a gang of seven smallies under seven years.

We had a summery, sunshiny blast, staying just outside the South Island city of Nelson, making the most of the sea, the lakes and the rivers that are so much part of New Zealand life.