Auckland Uni Students....

[Gremlin]

I'm bored... when are you doing the dummy run? I can meet you outside the clocktower if you wish... and watch your progress

[crashe]

Disco Dan - Good luck.

Now take a few deep breathes and breathe out....
Do that a few times.........

Ok feeling a tad better now..... good.....

Ok the guys are helping you out.... print out their instructions and take that with you.

You will be fine....... soon you will be a pro at finding rooms etc at the uni....
and will be helping others to find the places as well.

Do NOT panic.........

[Disco Dan]

take a bag of bread crumbs.

Those of you going into Uni tomorrow... look out for a long line of string.. one end attached to my bike.. the other end.. me.

[crashe]

take a bag of bread crumbs.

The pidgeons will eat them...... so then he will get LOST trying to find his way back to his bike.....

[Chisanga]

Those of you going into Uni tomorrow... look out for a long line of string.. one end attached to my bike.. the other end.. me.

My bike is being serviced tommorrow (And I have to work in the morning)otherwise I would come in and help you.

[Ixion]

yeee gads man.

1. Park on Alfred Street.
2. Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street (according to your map, to Commerce C)
3. Once across, there will be a little paved section, walk to that, and go to the left, and you will find stairs going down.
4. Take them, and at the bottom, go left.
5. You will walk under a walkway. Stop.
6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)
7. Take the small door, it only has a set of stairs behind it.
8. This will put you on level 2, from there, you need to locate room 6. All rooms have numbers on them, and funnily enough, numbered consecutively.

Hows that?

edit...there is hidden bike parking off wynard street, which can be only accessed from the north end, via Alten Rd
edit2 there is no official bike parking right outside clocktower, unless that has changed

Whatever you do , do NOT accidentally turn left. If you are so ill omened as to do so, you will find another door, similar to the one you would have found had you turned right. DO NOT GO THROUGH THAT DOOR. AND DO NOT ASK WHY. JUST DON'T DO IT. (But, if you do, can I have your bike, since you won't be using it any more?)

So is that clear? Don't turn right, and make sure you go through the right door.

(EDIT: There may be no bike parking nowdays outside the clock tower. But the challenge still stands, to start outside the clock tower in Princes St, ride UP the steps, DOWN the internal stairs, out the lower back doors, into the cloisters, down the stairs and across to Alfred St, and back up to Princes St. It has been done. )

[Disco Dan]

6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)

Whatever you do , do NOT accidentally turn left. So is that clear? Don't turn right, and make sure you go through the right door.

umm ok folks i think i got it...

Well off to leather up and go try out the directions

First stop, clocktower...

then left? or right? or something......

[Gremlin]

don't listen to the ol coot... There isn't a door the same to the left...

To the left, it be the looong tunnel to the light... (read underpass)

hmmmm pity I don't think I could ride through the clocktower on the 7... someone got something a bit lighter, with more steering?

[Ixion]

You are quite right, I should not have spoken of THAT. Let us all take note, there IS NO door to the left, none at all. Nope, none. Just as said, a tunnel to the light, no door to the darkness.

Just remember not to turn right.

By the way, you must bear in mind that all the left, right etc instructions are on the assumption that you are approaching FROM THE NORTH. If that be not so, obviously you must reverse left and right.

[crashe]

Ok at 7.21pm Disco Dan was about to head out the door......

It is now just gone 9pm and Disco Dan hasn't returned.




OMG he is LOST again.......




Someone send out a search party to find the lad......

Did he take his compass and the written instructions with him?

[Gremlin]

OMG he is LOST again.......

and to think I even offered to meet him at the clocktower, and he said he would be fine...

Ixion... with directions like yours... even I would get lost... and the directions assumed an approach from the south...

[Ixion]

Oh, shit. I guess maybe he went through that door. The one we don't speak of. D'y' know if he made any arrangements regarding dispositon of his bike, in the event of his not returning?

I suppose it is POSSIBLE he is merely lost. But really, how likely is that?

[Ixion]

and to think I even offered to meet him at the clocktower, and he said he would be fine...

Ixion... with directions like yours... even I would get lost... and the directions assumed an approach from the south...

You cannot

Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street

approaching from the south. This might explain things, though I suspect "that of which none speak" myself.

[crashe]

Oh, shit. I guess maybe he went through that door. The one we don't speak of. D'y' know if he made any arrangements regarding dispositon of his bike, in the event of his not returning?

I suppose it is POSSIBLE he is merely lost. But really, how likely is that?

Tis very possible for Disco Dan....... to get LOST.

[Disco Dan]

I HAVE RETURNED!

...well after taking a wrong turn off the motorway I turned back, turned right after I passed the police operations carpark (on my left) and ended up in broadway (saw a gpx250 on the side of the road, and some yellow thing in broadway too). Turned back, went all the way back to where i got off the mway, saw a sign saying University (despite pointing opposite direction to what my map was telling me). Somehow (sheer luck) ended up on Princes street, turned left onto Alfred street then right onto symonds. Stopped again to check map. Lost still. Some passer-by approached me and offered to help... turned my map around the other way and sent me back down the road. Turn right onto Alten Road, and ended up at mway again. Turned back and found Wynyard Street, and despite being a construction zone and very very pot hole ridden gravely stuff I braved it to the end. Found the building, although no doors, just a small sign saying "arts". Hmmpf. found a small walkway down the side of the building, went up it. Ended up on Symonds street again. This time I parked up and continued on foot to find the entrance. Found a stair well with a "arts" sign affixed. Triumphant, I returned to my bike. Trying to think of the fastest way back to the mway, I decided to turn right onto Wellesley Street, then right again onto Princes, down to Bowen on my left and over the ridge to queen street. Followed that too the end and turn right onto K-Road, and then left at the gas station to see the mway on my right.

Tomorrow is going to be bloody entertaining....