On our way to The Forgotten World Highway

(Taumanauri, New Zealand, 20th of January 2017)

Today, cycling to Taumanauri was on schedule and today’s strains resulted in 986 altimeter and 108 km after some slight misalignments. Once in the little sleepy city we found accommodation at Kellys motel. We got the charma hotel owner for a while before we were allowed to bring the bikes in the room – it was our bicycle bags that made her approve of it.

In Taumanauri we provided food and other necessities for the cycling we planned to do along “The Forgotten World Highway” and then we had a huge plate of fish and chips each for dinner. When you see the portion sizes you get when you buy takeaway food in New Zealand you can be really surprised that people are not fatter than they actually are.

/Christel