My Mid-Winter Molesworth Ride
Last year on my ride around the South Island I ran out of time to cycle the Molesworth. So this remote high country station road was on the top of my list for this year. […]
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A Zig and A Zag
Napier is different. Not only because the whole town has been re-build in Art Deco style after a big earthquake flattened most of the city in 1931.
Familiar Faces in New Places
How lucky was I to run into Tony & Margaret last year (twice!) on some South Island backtracks, not only did they give me some useful pointers down that way, we also parted with the […]
A Wonderful World of Water and Wind
It now seems ages ago I shot down the rail trail. The original railway was completed in 1921. As it turned out the line was uneconomic. Lucky for cyclist young and old, the Department of […]
About Climbing, Crossing Creeks and Camera’s
It was a bit of a climb out of Cromwell. It was only the next morning, when I reached the top of Dufflers Saddle, that I realized I’d just cycled up the highest public […]
Cycling Dutch Girl 