Heading to the South!

(Picton, New Zealand, 31st of January 2017)

Today’s mission was to travel over to the South Island and to get there you take a ferry from the harbor in Wellington. It works much like an airplane where you check in your bags and get a boarding pass. The bikes we had to transport aboard by ourselves and lock them on special bike racks. We had heard a lot about how beautiful the boat trip over to the South Island would be but I think you get a little spoiled when you have been in New Zealand for a while because everything is so amazingly Beautiful. The view from the boat was certainly beautiful but nothing special compared to other we experienced.

We had booked accommodation in Picton – the city where the boat adds to the South island – a small tourist town consisting of a main street with small tourist shops and restaurants. Our hotel did not want to let us take the bikes in to the room at first but after packing them in plastic bags and showing them to the man at the reception, Johan managed to convince him and we could bring them with us.

/ Christel