It’s a good thing this was the last day of cycling and camping for a while. Snap, this is the sound which froze me while I was disassembling the tent. The shorter of the two aluminium tubes that form the structure of the tent finally gave up the ghost. You can see from the large…

All the best things in life are free The time on the road in New Zealand is slowly coming to an end, today is the last of the long runs. The plan was always to leave a light last day to see if I could shoehorn in some of the stuff I have to do…

The privilege of not wanting much. It’s another slow news day, one of the transfer day where the only exciting thing is at the destination rather than on route. This normally means that I get lost in al sort of thoughts and the subject today is something that I’ve been mulling over for a while….

Come closer and see, see into the trees … Today is one of those days that starts with some expectations and finishes in a whole different way. It was going to be a 21 miles ride to the Waipoua Visitor Centre in the middle of the Waipoua Forest and to start with it was a…

The world of the have not and the one of the have yachts. Today has been a day full of reflections. The route was easy and the weather was manageable so there was nothing to do but to think. I met a nice couple of Austrian people last night in the campsite, I had met them…

Cycling 19 miles of 90 Miles Beach I must have got too used to sleeping in the tent as I did not sleep all that well in the hostel, the bed was so so and the beddings a bit too heavy. I was sharing the room with half of the European Union (a boy from Spain,…

I did not blow away Now that was a night to remember, I knew there was a big front coming my way but I did not quite expect it to be this big. I turns out that Auckland had it a bit worse than me. I was amazed that I went to sleep quite well…

Good things come to those who wait To say that I was in two mind about today is really an understatement. I had initially not even scheduled a leg toCape Reinga and only changed my plan shaded by Shirley and Andrew. The reason I was not sold on the idea was that I very much…

Least we forget Without really trying to I have started going faster. I seem to put in the same milage and the same elevations but get to the destination earlier in the day. The thing does not bother me, I am getting to the point where, apart from some notable exceptions, I feel I have…

Walking between the raindrops As per usual it started to rain at approximately 6 in the morning. I thought it was only going to be the nuisance rain that forces me to pack the tent wet, but this time it was not. The weather has obviously changed and the autumn is shoehorning its way in…