Remembering “Higher Trails”, a great Kiwi song
e Hill played “Higher Trails”, by John Hanlon today
Adventure South
The empty Otago Rail Trail is pretty busy!
I think it's great that the New Zealand Cycleway Project is going ahead with National and the Greens support. What amazed me, although have probably read it elsewhere & forgotten, is that 80,000 rode the Central Otago Rail Trail last year. I thought it was a pretty
Take a Look Bike Mirror | It's like cycling naked without it...
Take a Look Bike Mirror If anyone looked at the current banner , or full image below, they may wonder about the strange looking fellow with even stranger attire. I call the white thing by my glasses "The Bas" as purchased it...
A Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet in the Catlins?
I was reading CAR U.K. and thought this Porsche advert looked familiar. Could it be the Catlins, Southland, New Zealand as seen in this photo I took in 2005. Compare the hills and fore shore, seems fa...
Top Gear in Vietnam?
Having recently been there , this episode looks like it will be fascinating. Come on Prime, don't make me wait forever or find an alternate source to view it! AUSmotive.com » More on Top Gear in...
A sky, a jet
As I write someone is being interviewed on TV, a British show, and the sky above is crisscrossed with contrails. I noticed them in the US when there, especially Florida. In New Zealand they are a rare sight, a good one enough to justify a photo. The flight from Queenstown?
Vox Hunt: Together Forever
Show us two things that belong together. West Coast Escape Cycle Tour South Island 2004 A bicycle, and this country, on a sunny day.
Vox Hunt: I'd Rather Be...
Show us what you wish you were doing right now. Doubtful Sound Exploring New Zealand, again!
ANZAC Day 2008, in Vietnam
Although ANZAC Day is always significant, I will remember 25 April 2008. I was on a cycle tour of Vietnam with a neat bunch of people from New Zealand, Australia, Holland and Japan. It was was a non-riding day, a bus ride from Hue to Hoi An. Over the trip
Hanoi to Huế | Day 12 Vietnam Cycle Tour
The itinerary: We transfer you to the airport & your flight to Hue. We will take an afternoon city tour around the Imperial citadel. Views from the plane Another domestic flight, not great weather (so much of it was in/above cloud) but still a decent look at the countryside
Hạ Long Bay to Hanoi | Day 11 Vietnam Cycle Tour
The itinerary: Awake to the sunrise over Halong Bay and breakfast on the cruise back to Halong. The afternoon and evening is at leisure in Hanoi. The trading boasts approach in the early morning light. It was still overcast, but warm and calm. A floating convenience store. Majestic Junks Golden
Adventure South
Hanoi to Hạ Long Bay | Day 10 Vietnam Cycle Tour
The itinerary: (Deferred from yesterday: You’ll visit Ho Chi Minh’s house where he preferred to live simply, there are splendid reminders of the great man who led the country and the Temple of Literature which was originally built in 1070.) Departing Hanoi, we travel through rolling fields and