Apparantly the bad weather of the first 3 days is taking its toll. From thursday to friday I really had a bad night of sleep. Which resulted in a nice sinusitis. Yesterday I looked at all the options of continuing my journey. And continuing by bike is not the best option for the next few days.
Appart from the sinusitis, I also have to reconsider the travelling by bike in general. I honestly underestimated the New Zealand weather and countryside (steeper then expected). My travelling speed by bike is less then 60 km a day. During the cycling the main focus is to reach the nearest backpackers. Usually by the time i arrived at the backpackers I am exhausted. Now i know that this will improve over time. However my time in New Zealand is limited.
And when reviewing my priorities, then discovering New Zealand is the top one and travelling by bike is secondary to that. So taking the weather and the countryside into the equasion as well then the end result is that travellling by car is more suitable for discovering New Zealand.
Yesterday I could join Sue the owner of the Opononi backpackers for her grocery shopping trip to Kaihohe and Keri Keri. And while doing so i decided to rent a car for the next few days. Just to check out how the left hand driving is.
In all travelling by car will allow me to cover larger distances and save more time to see and do things.
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So much for the Cycling Dutchman! It's now gonna be the Driving Dutchman :)
ReplyDeleteI think its just the start which is hard, you might get used to it, as well as grow some muscles :)
De fiets aan de wilgen gehangen? Dit is niet de update die ik verwacht had ;-)
ReplyDeleteIk ben benieuwd naar de foto's:
F5 ... F5 ... F5 ... F5 ... F5 ... F5 ;-)
Well what can I say yes i quit cycling, and it was a decision largly influenced by the combination of sinusitis (which i really hate) and common sense. You have a nice interesting theory called plan,do,check,act. While checking it became obvious to act and choosing the car was my action.
ReplyDeleteSo now lets do again and this time by car. I have rented this car untill sunday. Maybe the next challenge will be buying a car in NZ.