(Paerora, New Zealand, 14th of January 2017) We started this morning by taking the ferry to the mainland and then continued cycling the longest bike ride hitherto. 120 kilometer and 1341 meters of altitude my Garmin Computer told me by the end of the day. No less than three mountains were climbed and the, Read More
(Whitianga, New Zealand, 13th of January 2017) One of the things we planned during our rest day yesterday was today’s trip to “Hot water beach” and “Cathedral Cave” with a small bus. In the morning we took a small ferry across from Whitianga to the mainland, where we found our little shuttle bus. The, Read More
(Whitianga, New Zealand, 11th of January 2017) We woke up to a gray sad morning with drizzle and gray clouds. We had breakfast consisting of sandwhiches with parmesan cheese, vegetables and nutella (not at the same time) and some cold potato with salt and then decided to wait a little before we started today’s, Read More
(Coromandel Town, New Zealand, 10th of January 2017) Today’s destination was Coromandel – a small town on the west coast of the Peninsula on New Zeeland’s east coast. It was not a very long trip, but we knew that a number of mountains would turn up, and after yesterday’s hardships the planned XNUMX kilometerns, Read More
(Thames, New Zealand, 9th of January 2017) Luckily we stayed in Kawakawa overnight as the next morning’s bike ride started with a 3 km long bike ride up a mountain, Te Motu Hill. For my part, it was a lot of slalom driving up the hill, it’s hard to run with the luggage on, Read More
(Kawakawa Bay, New Zealand, 8th of January 2017) We had decided to leave Half Moon Bay today but we had no idea how far we would cycle, we thought we could consider this along the way and book a hotel room when we started to feel tired. After the first days fairly easy, Read More
(Half Moon Bay, New Zealand, 7th of January 2017) Today we had decided to take our bikes and visit an island off the coast and ride around a bit. The island is called Waiheke, and it is not big but very hilly. The boat departed from the port a few hundred meters from our, Read More
(Half Moon Bay, New Zealand, 6th of January 2017) As we fell asleep very early yesterday after a long and tiring trip from Sweden, we woke up already at 04.30 in the morning. But luckily, the Ibishotel we stayed in was serving breakfast already from 5.30 in the morning so that was no problem., Read More
(Auckland, New Zealand, 5th of January 2017) It’s easy to get confused when you travel east and have to move the time forward many hours on a regular basis. Eating at odd times of the day gets quite normal but it is harder to decide when you should be sleeping (or absolutely not sleeping, Read More