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Murchison -> Nelson (family acc, campervan!)
Distance (km) : 122
Time on bike : 6h 32m
Brutto time: 08.30 – 17.15
Avg : 16.6 km/h
Max.speed: 65.3
Total (km) : 30.291

Westport -> Murchison (wild camp, memorial park)
Distance (km) : 101
Time on bike : 5h 55m
Brutto time: 09.30 – 17.10
Avg : 17.0 km/h
Max.speed: 56.7
Total (km) : 30.169

Mohammed from Iran

Greymouth -> Westport (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 103
Time on bike : 5h 42m
Brutto time: 09.10 – 17.30
Avg : 18.1 km/h
Max.speed: 54.3
Total (km) : 30.068!

Greymouth (daytrip: 12 km)

Hari Hari -> Greymouth (hostel, world class)
Distance (km) : 116
Time on bike : 6h 25m
Brutto time: 09.30 – 17.00
Avg : 18.0 km/h
Max.speed: 48.7
Total (km) : 29.953

Album of the Day: You Are the Quarry – Morrissey

Franz Josef Glacier -> Hari Hari (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 65
Time on bike : 3h 42m
Brutto time: 13.00 – 17.00
Avg : 17.6 km/h
Max.speed: 52.7
Total (km) : 29.837

Franz Josef Glacier rest / walking day
Day trip: 10 km

Fox Glacier -> Franz Josef Glacier (hostel)
Distance (km) : 33
Time on bike : 2h 10m
Brutto time: 07.55 – 14.00
Avg : 15.3 km/h
Max.speed: 57.6
Total (km) : 29.762

Lake Paringa -> Fox Glacier (wild camp, rugby field)
Distance (km) : 80
Time on bike : 4h 17m
Brutto time: 09.45 – 16.00
Avg : 18.8 km/h
Max.speed: ?
Total (km) : 29.730

Thought of the Day: (it ain’t much, I know…)

This whole experience gives me an immense belief and trust in humanity. A trust that comes from countless social encounters around the world rather than from the clever lines of a book.

Pleasant Flat -> Lake Paringa (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 98
Time on bike : 5h 10m
Brutto time: 09.00 – 16.45
Avg : 18.8 km/h
Max.speed: 58.4
Total (km) : 29.649

To be free is to be capable of thinking one’s own thoughts – not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one’s deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one’s individuality – Rudolf Steiner

Wanaka -> Pleasant Flat (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 99
Time on bike : 6h 0m
Brutto time: 09.00 – 17.30
Avg : 16.5 km/h
Max.speed: 66.3
Total (km) : 29.551

Queenstown -> Wanaka (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 82
Time on bike : 5h 20m
Brutto time: 10.25 – 17.00
Avg : 15.6 km/h
Max.speed: 63.1
Total (km) : 29.452

Tune of the Day: Now At Last – Feist

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A lovely and – dare I say – welldeserved restday in Queenstown. Apart from a pre-noon walk through the autumn colours in the Botanic Garden, and a long wander in the supermarket while “offer scanning” all the alleys and shelves (‘cos nothing escapes me in the world of bargains, as you’d know by now), I don’t really do an awful lot today. The poplars are beautiful this time of the year. Golden and healthy to look at.

I hang out most of the evening at the hostel, eating, talking to random travellers who are doing exactly the same, eating, drinking tea, wathching some dumb movie, eating. That sort of stuff…And all this while mentally enjoying not being on the move today, enjoying less input than the normal nomadic bicycle life offers.

The bed’s soft. The sounds of my room mate’s loud snoring, well, different from the one-man silence that I’m used to in my own polyester world, that is my tent. Kind of cosy, those sounds of dreams…

Garston -> Queenstown (hostel)
Distance (km) : 66
Time on bike : 3h 20m
Brutto time: 09.10 – 14.00
Avg : 20.0 km/h
Max.speed: 57.6
Total (km) : 29.371

Te Anau -> Garston (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 109
Time on bike : 5h 15m
Brutto time: 10.15 – 17.00
Avg : 20.7 km/h
Max.speed: 49.2
Total (km) : 29.304

The village of Garston finds pride in the title “New Zealand’s most inland village”…

Upper Eglinton -> Te Anau (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 76
Time on bike : 3h 45m
Brutto time: 11.00 – 16.00
Avg : 20.0 km/h
Max.speed: 49.2
Total (km) : 29.194

Tune of the Day: Uri Geller – The Wannadies (It rocks too. Sweden made!)

Milford Sound -> Upper Eglinton (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 33
Time on bike : 1h 44m
Brutto time: 15.00 – 17.15
Avg : 19.1 km/h
Max.speed: 67.6
Total (km) : 29.118

Words of Doubtful Wisdom…

Drying your wet tent in the misty, Kiwi morning is like everlasting love – you just can’t hurry it!

– WT Philosophy in Milford Sound

Tune of the Night: Rocket Brothers – Kashmir (It rocks. DK made)

Te Anau -> Milford Sound (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 123
Time on bike : 7h 40m
Brutto time: 08.35 – 19.00
Avg : 16.1 km/h
Max.speed: 74.8 !
Total (km) : 29.085

Some people say you oughtta do one thing every day that scares you. Deciding to leave Lake Gunn and head up the mountains – a vertical climb of 600m followed by a 900m drop – and into Milford Sound at 4.30 pm, after 80 km and 5½ hours on the bike already, with the sun setting and the temperature dropping quickly, well, that was my scare of the day.

Tune of the Day: Inverno – Adriana Calcanhotto

Tuatapere -> Te Anau (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 103
Time on bike : 6h 05m
Brutto time: 11.00 – 18.00
Avg : 17.0 km/h
Max.speed: 57.6
Total (km) : 28.962

Tune of the Day: Straight Up – Paula Abdul

Days 715 – 721 are now equipped with photos from my first leg of this NZ journey.

You know where to find them, I suppose…

Sun’s shining – gotta go. The bike’s getting impatient.

All good…

Nicolai

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Another rest day…This time in tiny Tuatapere…

Invercargill -> Tuatapere (hostel)
Distance (km) : 86
Time on bike : 4h 46m
Brutto time: 10.25 – 16.00
Avg : 18.0 km/h
Max.speed: 43.8
Total (km) : 28.858

Waikawa Bay -> Invercargill (hostel)
Distance (km) : 88
Time on bike : 5h 33m
Brutto time: 11.00 – 17.30
Avg : 15.8 km/h
Max.speed: 50.0
Total (km) : 28.772

Nugget Point -> Waikawa Bay (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 88
Time on bike : 5h 30m
Brutto time: 10.00 – 18.30
Avg : 15.9 km/h
Max.speed: 66.5
Total (km) : 28.684

Dunedin -> Nugget Point (wild camp)
Distance (km) : 122
Time on bike : 7h 26m
Brutto time: 10.30 – 20.00
Avg : 16.3 km/h
Max.speed: 78.3 (yihaa!)
Total (km) : 28.596

Palmerston -> Dunedin (backpacker’s)
Distance (km) : 60
Time on bike : 4h 20m
Brutto time: 09.55 – 16.30
Avg : 13.8 km/h
Max.speed: 51.3
Total (km) : 28.475

Oamaru -> Palmerston (camper van, free)
Distance (km) : 70
Time on bike : 4h 48m
Brutto time: 11.30 – 18.00
Avg : 14.6 km/h
Max.speed: 61.7
Total (km) : 28.414