A long day of cycling in the sun. Set off rather late because I needed sunglasses and there was a fascinating art gallery with some odd but impressive clay heads taken from pictures by Magritte and others. So Magritte's pic of someone with a bird flying passed his face (what's the picture's name...?) had been turned into an appropriately dream like 3d head. Oh, and there was a pleasant bakery - blueberry and custard thingies. Finally we hit the road and set off at speed. The snows of Mt Taganaki grew more and more evident as we travelled, standing high in the sky above the surrounding agricultural landscape. We had lunch around Waverley - lazing in the bit of green thst stretches alongside the road. The on to Patea, paralleling the road was a railway line. In the whole day we only heard one train go past.Don't think they're heavily used. Very undulating roads with some nice downhills and moderate ups. The wind was mostly either cross or cross-off, pushing us along a little. We found a New World Supermarket easily enough but floundered trying to find the King Edward's Park Campground which turned out to be within a few hundred yards of the supermarket we'd just shopped in. drank some Macs brewery Sassy Red Bitter and then showers and bed. The photo is of Mt Taranaki, or Mt Egmont as it can be called, at a distance across agricultural plains.
A long day of cycling in the sun. Set off rather late because I needed sunglasses and there was a fascinating art gallery with some odd but impressive clay heads taken from pictures by Magritte and others. So Magritte's pic of someone with a bird flying passed his face (what's the picture's name...?) had been turned into an appropriately dream like 3d head. Oh, and there was a pleasant bakery - blueberry and custard thingies. Finally we hit the road and set off at speed. The snows of Mt Taganaki grew more and more evident as we travelled, standing high in the sky above the surrounding agricultural landscape. We had lunch around Waverley - lazing in the bit of green thst stretches alongside the road. The on to Patea, paralleling the road was a railway line. In the whole day we only heard one train go past.Don't think they're heavily used. Very undulating roads with some nice downhills and moderate ups. The wind was mostly either cross or cross-off, pushing us along a little. We found a New World Supermarket easily enough but floundered trying to find the King Edward's Park Campground which turned out to be within a few hundred yards of the supermarket we'd just shopped in. drank some Macs brewery Sassy Red Bitter and then showers and bed. The photo is of Mt Taranaki, or Mt Egmont as it can be called, at a distance across agricultural plains.