Category: New Zealand South-North 2012

• Arrowtown – with probably the world’s most expensive phone booth

  Read on to the end to find out about the phone box, but here at the top, let me put my cards straight on the table today. Long-distance cycling has to be the happiest-making activity on the planet. I remember a Guardian chap (Mike Carter, written about before on this blog) describing an anti-clockwise trip […]

  mbrayne

  December 8, 2012

  Cycling, New Zealand, New Zealand South-North 2012

  Arrowtown, bike trip, Cycling, long-distance cycling, mark brayne, Thorn Cycles

• Tornado-delayed, finally in Queenstown

  Well, that was a bit of a journey. But I’m here, as are bike and luggage, and the stunningly lovely NZ Adventure Capital of Queenstown even arranged a rainbow of welcome for us all. But not before, first, my Primus fuel bottle was halted and turned back at UK check-in security; then my pedal spanner […]

  mbrayne

  December 7, 2012

  Cycling, New Zealand South-North 2012

  bike trip, climate change, long-distance cycling, prostate, Queenstown, TURP

• Right, NZ ahoy. This bike trip’s for real…

  So, after the disappointment and nerve dramas of the RTW bike ride that wasn’t last Easter, Raven and I (doesn’t it irritate when cyclists anthropomorphise their bikes!) are on our way to cycle the South Island in New Zealand. And this is also my first attempt at blogging with WordPress direct from my mobile. Hope […]

  mbrayne

  December 4, 2012

  Climate Change, Cycling, New Zealand South-North 2012

  climate change, long-distance cycling, New Zealand West Coast