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The North of the North Island - Let's go ....

Avaldatud: 13.02.2018

7.2. (64 km / 770 to Wharekawa)

first day - I feel sick ..

Ferry to Beachlands then along the coast... very idyllic.... green meadows with sheep, cows and horses

We are allowed to sleep at Hamish's friends' beach house garden...


8.2 (71 km to Tapu)

In the morning we pick peaches from the garden before we start...
Luckily it's relatively flat, because there's a strong wind HEADWIND

On the way we stop and pick blackberries...

great campsite

Wow
Wow



9 and 10. 2. (37 km to Coromandel)

It's raining and I'm sick.

We decide to stay in Coromandel for 2 nights.

First at Vic's and then at Sue and Wally's.

They are all Warmshowers and spontaneously agreed.

At Wally and Sue's we get delicious rhubarb crumble that Wally made especially for us and we learn a new dice game '10,000'

Dear family, you will like it :)


11.2. (80 km )

We're allowed to sleep at acquaintances of Hamish's mom...

Still raining


12.2. (92 km  / 1000hm to Katikati)

-Hamish is cycling back

-Warmshowers Ian

-there are 2 French women there who have to end their bike tour because of an operation

-evening meal together with tomato cake and pasta

Host Ian and 2 French Claire and Aline - Katikati
Host Ian and 2 French Claire and Aline - Katikati

-We are allowed to sleep in an old bus

- Ian builds 'Tiny Houses' - Patrick thinks that's a great idea...


13. + 14.2. 50 km to Mount Manganui

-Warmshowers Dave and Jody

-invite us for risotto

-want us to stay an extra night

-Patrick rides with Dave and his friend in the morning and completes his 10,000!

-we climb the mountain on the 2nd day and watch the surfers

In the evening we cook in the small apartment... until Patrick has a little mishap... hehe

sauces explosion
sauces explosion

15.2. (100 km to Ohope)

-we eat the best ice cream in a long time... at a stand where the farmers sell their berries, you can buy fruit ice cream.

They mix their frozen berries with vanilla ice cream.... YUMMY

-Warmshowers Corinna and Garry, who raised the German flag just for us....

Extra for the German guests
Extra for the German guests

-swimming in the sea and delicious dinner by Corinna


16. + 17.2. (84 km / 1200hm and 105 km / 1200hm) MOTUTRAIL

-we cycle the Motutrail

- very beautiful but all steep

-very exhausting

- 1 night wild camping


We ask at a tangerine farm if we can pitch our tent for the 2nd night.

The lady is a bit confused, she wants to cancel but then she thinks again and brings us to her garden.

She shows us a Nashi pear tree and says we can take some. Also there are delicious figs and the best tangerines in the world.

The next morning we find this note.

Very nice....


18.2. (102 km /1000 hm) to Wairoa

Here we accidentally meet 2 French people... Manuelle and Olivier.... We decide to sleep on the beach together. As we are on our way, a man waves to us who has been waiting for us by the roadside.

he tells us to come to him and sleep on his property.

He brings us beer, bread and butter and lights up his grill for us...

our nice gas donors - Wairoa
our nice gas donors - Wairoa


We have a nice evening with him, his family (whom he called to come) and his 2 pigs....










Vastus (2)

Gabi
Ich freu mich schon rießig auf den Spieleabend.

MaFJoL
bei den Bildern kann man ja echt neidisch werden..sieht auf jedenfall malerisch aus..Gruß aus dem kalten Deutschland..ick freu mir schon auf das Würfelspiel und ne Partie Schach

Uus-Meremaa
Reisiaruanded Uus-Meremaa
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