A new year dawns …
woollypigs … and what are your plans for 2011 ? Last year saw us in Wales in April for a three day sunny mini tour. Then in September on our warm…
Cycle Touring
Camping in New Zealand
We spent nearly five weeks cycle touring in New Zealand on the south island and most nights we camped in our Blacks Octane 3 tent. As we found in Australia,…
Post-tour ponderings
A cycle tourer or traveller is easy to spot, you know when you have spotted a kindred spirit. They walk in a more relaxed, unrushed way and carry themselves without…
Staying charged while touring
With more and more gadget you have, it is getting somewhat harder to keep them all charged while touring or on holiday. We have a camera, GPS, mobile phone, lights…
Sandflies the BB über lords
As you might know I do have a love hate thing with any flying blood sucker that is around. To sum it up I’m everyone else’s replant, as I have…
Pedallers’ Paradise by Nigel Rushton
We’ve just come back from a trip to New Zealand where we cycle toured for five weeks. I had crawled the internet for information, reading other people’s blogs and write-ups…
Thank you
This is a special thank you post. You could call it our ‘Oscars’ though there is no order or ranking in this list. I’m sure I will forget someone, so…
Aller retour (Christchurch – Akaroa)
Bonus days and very hard, hilly roads with views that I lack words to describe and a bit of ‘je ne sais quoi’ French-style make this last week one to…
Back inland (Omarama – Lake Tekapo)
Tired legs, flat country with very hilly views and great weather. Splashing out on a helicopter ride up and over and around Mt. Cook, absolutely fantastic. Day one : 09/11/10…
All on board! (Clyde – Dunedin)
New wheel, meeting new friends for a guided tour on less-travelled tracks. Being gob-smacked by the service from bus companies down here. Warming up from frozen in a B&B next…