Never o.d. on great, after that, good will just not do. What a strange day, I cycled for 45 miles and really saw nothing terribly memorable. The photo count was incredibly low but the advantage is that I have spent very little time editing and I’ll get extra time for reading and resting. Route 2,986,342 –…

Intelligence from great people I am on the move again. After four days in Browns Bay I have today started the last leg of the New Zealand Tour. I will ride all the way to Cape Reinga, the northmost  point of the north island and then go back to Browns Bay for a a few…

We’ll build a bridge across the sea and land Rain again, as soon as I was awake, it sometimes feel like it waits for me to have to pack up and then it pours down. It was short though and it did not trouble me too much. As I was packing up I felt somehow…

Another wet morning, followed by a sunny day. I must have got more relaxed about the weather during this trip, or perhaps I’m more comfortable with my capabilities. This morning I had to stay in bed past 8:00 and then wait till 9:00 in the kitchen before I could decamp due to continuous rain. I was…

Water water everywhere If there is a day with an overriding theme that has to be today and the theme is water. The weather forecast for today in Puketui (campsite) was for rain from 8:00. For that reason I set the alarm for 6:30 so that, I thought, I could get all the stuff away…

Lasciate ogni speranza o voi ch’entrate It’s time to leave Coromandel. It was a good place to come to and riding up the coast from Thame and beyond Coromandel is something I’d really recommend to anybody interested in coming to New Zealand. It rained first thing in the morning and that made the preparations to…

Feeling light as a feather, without all that ballast Short day today, half biking, half resting. I was not too sure about the weather so I got up with ease and eventually decided to go for  short ride (20 miles) up the coast, rather than spending the whole day glued to the screen. I had…

When it rains it pours. It was dry when I got out of the hotel this morning, that surprised me, the sight of the clouds on the horizon though did not. The weather forecast was right and just 17 miles into the ride it started to rain. It was not bad to start with but…

A little revolution every now and then is a healthy thing. When I got on the bicycle this morning I was going to ride 46 miles to Waihi Beach and camp there, I am writing this from the balcony of the hotel I’m sleeping at in Paeroa. This is how a day can turn around….

Another day another sea. I left Napier relatively early this morning and, after 240 miles I got into the Camping site around 16:00 in the afternoon. Not bad. Yes I did not pedal 240 miles, I got on the bus in Napier and after a change in Taupo I arived in Rotorua around lunch time….