Good weather + good legs + good road = long ride. I was waiting for it and it did not let me down, the sunrise this morning was one to remember. Before I get into the flood of pictures I took of it let me show you some I took last night of the surfing…
Category: New Zealand
New friends and old friends
Great people make time memorable. This is going to be a very long post, if nothing else because there are a lot of pictures to fit in and there are a lot of stories to be told. I spent the last three days in in and around Christchurch and in that time I have made…
Christchurch
It is difficult to get away from the topic in Christchurch. A warm night for a change. The sun in the morning also drying the tent made it a template night out hopefully to be repeated in the coming month. Yea, who am I kidding? The day was promising fast easy riding but it started…
Drought
Water water everywhere … It is funny, isn’t it? You hear people talking about things but you don’t really get them until you see them for yourself. One example is people not knowing grammar and other people not paying attention. How many people do you think handled that sign from production to hanging. This is…
Milestones: 4000 Miles
Four thousand miles, adding another 1000 miles of wonderful New Zealand to the total. So here are the facts and figures for these 1000 miles. Cycling Continents: 1 (Oceania) Countries: 1 (New Zealand) Nations: 1 (New Zealand) Cycled distance: 1000 miles (1609 Km) Climbing so far: 145,020 feet (44,202 m) Cycling Days: 20 Rest days: 5 Longest day: 65.66 miles…
Otago no more
Oh, I really loved the time in Otago Another cold night but the sun is out today so I hope to have a good sunny day in front of me. Got up early and thought that there was no need to wait to Timaru to send the stuff to Auckland, surely the post office would…
Better than seals, penguins and sea lions
When the day starts, you never know what you’re going to find in it. The first order of the day was to get to the boulders. The Moeraki Boulders are a rock formation, they are basically just big balls of rock that sit on the beach. They do so as the sea has eroded the…
Fush’n chup bro?
Need really to make more of a concerted effort to learn New Zillund It is nice to meet nice people and it is great to make connections that might grow into long lasting friendship, only time will tell that but what is sure is that there is a wealth of people that are kind and…
Back to Dunedin
145 miles on the bus, 3 miles on the bike. It was sort of a rest day today but I rested in motion. Considering it is the first day of autumn down here I have to start making my way north if I want to avoid the more rigorous cold that is to come. I…
Invercargill
And now that I’m at the bottom, the only way is up. The last day in the Catlins was truly a multi faceted one. On one hand there was dealing with the recovery from the big freeze, then there was the dealing with the killer gravel, then the big bore and finally to see what…