E-bikes have my gold-card credit for age-related adventurists In ticking off a marathon bike ride from the alpine remoteness of Aoraki Mt Cook to Oamaru’s coastal beauty, I have a raft of photographic evidence - and the coffee mug - to prove I didn’t cheat. I ignore the …
Travels
Farewell Spit – The Tip of South Island
Mystery and history surrounds Farewell Spit With several New Zealand places on the ‘must-do’ list, I discovered there’s much more to the South Island’s fish hook and a simple life in Collingwood. While doing some research prior to ticking Farewell Spit off my bucket-list of …
Redwoods and Rotorua – a Weekend Retreat
When friends from Gisborne, Napier and Tauranga looked to catch up for their annual get together, Rotorua came up trumps. For several reasons. Living less than an hour from Rotorua for some years now, you’d think a jaunt to this tourist mecca every so often would be in …