New day new challenges. I did not really know what to do today, When I woke up my legs were as good as when went to bed. My original thought was to repeat yesterday’s approach, come down to Rotorua, have a nice internet brunch and then speed up in Taupo’s direction. This proved to be…
Category: Day report
Up up and away
I am knackered, what a day. Woke up a few times during the night but on the whole I’m getting the hang of tent living, I still think I have too many things with me that I do not use, but I guess this is a problem for the next trip. Got up quite early…
Of fruit and berries
Day one went pretty much to plan other than it started raining as soon as I got into bed, it was not hard rain and it lasted only for an hour or so but it was sufficient to remind me that my raincloud is always with me, no matter the season, no matter the continent….
Out of Auckland
And here we go. Sorry for the silence but i was extremely busy on three fronts. First I had to get over the jet lag, for the first time in my life I had a strange case of swelling feet, I wonder what other lovely surprises raging will bring. Second I had to completely get…
Getting to Rabat
Kenitra is another of those places I seem to collect that people will not even know they existed before I mentioned them. I think the only thing it has going for it is that it’s close to Rabat. I went out for some food last night and it was nice, there even was a musician…
The longest day
I did not sleep well last night, demons caught up with me, and that was all I needed before getting on the bike again. In the lobby I met the first and only non Moroccan people I have seen this side of the sea. It was a couple of French librarians who are down here…
First day in Africa
Wow, I think it will take some time for me to get used to this. I had vastly underestimated the cultural shock I would have got by changing continent. It’s not the terrain or even the landscape, the difference from southern Spain is not so great, it’s the people and their attitude. I suspect the…
From the bottom to the top.
It’s finally here, I have travelled from the top to the bottom of Europe and in a few hours I’ll be crossing the straight and reset the trip by getting to the top of Africa only to head towards the bottom of it.. I started the day as every day should start, coffe, cake, spare…
Andalucía’s big sky
Funny how things never turn out the way you expect. After yesterday tyre fiasco I had to change my plans and instead of heading straight for Tarifa I had to add an intermediary step in Vejer de la Frontera to visit a bike shop for spares. This in my mind meant easy going today and…