Distance: 24.11 km Ride time: 1:29:53 Average: 17.2 km/h Total: 20634 km As I was taking my tent down I thought of all the nights I have spent in it since entering Australia a year ago. Now it would be a while before I would be camping again. Just as I had started to cycle [ Read More ]
Distance: 129.88 km Ride time: 6:19:02 Average: 20.50 km/h Total: 20610 km The morning started by navigating some very small back roads in the outskirts of Auckland. I really didn’t want to cycle the direct way into this metropolis. Instead I wanted to follow the Firth of Thames. Another beautiful cycling day in this beautiful [ Read More ]
Distance: 101.22 km Ride time: 5:10:46 Average: 20.24 km/h Total: 20479 km Sleeping at the football field had worked great – no surprise visits encountered during the night and even a toilet building next door. All that for 0$. I had my morning coffee at the harbour next to the big cruise ships before I [ Read More ]
Distance: 107.05 km Ride time: 4:45:41 Average: 22.48 km/h Total: 20378 km I had slept very well in my bed at Annas farm. I bed for the night is pure luxury these days. So was the breakfast that I enjoyed before taking off. Anna’s mom even made me some delicious sandwiches from the roasted lamb [ Read More ]
Distance: 46.04 km Ride time: 2:04:30 Average: 23.62 km/h Total: 20272 km It was another cold New Zealand morning, but the beautiful sunrise over Lake Taupo more than made up for the cold weather as I was looking for a place to enjoy my morning coffee. Later in the day I was going to visit [ Read More ]
Distance: 66.90 km Ride time: 3:13:32 Average: 21.72 km/h Total: 20219 km After the disappointment with the closed hiking trail yesterday I was happy to discover that my cyclingroute was taking me through some very scenic places today. I was cycling along the shore of Lake Taupo almost all the day. The small towns I’m passing through these [ Read More ]
Distance: 141.22 km Ride time: 6:18:59 Average: 22.51 km/h Total: 20152 km The mornings in this part of New Zealand are cold and foggy. I had found a camp spot a few kilometers out of Taihape. With the first light I was cycling back into town looking for a cup of coffee to warm up. An hour [ Read More ]
Distance: 106.57 km Ride time: 4:52:45 Average: 21.74 km/h Total: 20011 km When I visited Tony in Wellington I didn’t just get given a mountain of food to put in my bags, but also the book “Mood of Future Joys” by Alastair Humphreys – a mesmerizing book about a round the worldcycling trip that I’m now [ Read More ]
Distance: 109.57 km Ride time: 4:58:45 Average: 22.13 km/h Total: 19904 km I do much of my route planning “on the go”. There are several ways to go from Wellington to Auckland. I had kind of decided to head towards the East Cape, but today I saw a sign for Palmerston and rather spontaneously decided [ Read More ]
Distance: 86.92 km Ride time: 3:51:35 Average: 18.9 km/h Total: 19795 km Apart from being a former Olympic cyclist, my host Tony is also a talented photographer. Today was Tony’s day off, and he offered to join me for the first part of the day cycling out of Wellington. Tony brought his camera and fired away. The climbing [ Read More ]
