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Category Archives: Cycling

Xtracycle update

It’s been ages since I’ve updated you guys on the Xtracycle - perhaps you’d like to know how it’s going?
It has been getting a bit of use lately - the picture above is from a few months ago just after we moved house - In the racks there is;

Hoover (upright)
Bin (full size kirchen bin)
A crapload [...]

Funky Kingston

Just to make up for the downer that was yesterday’s post - here’s another youtube finding.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTG_iTUWnvw]
Go Toots GO!

Geocaching

Been meaning to start geocaching for years and recently I started. The
cliche’d quote is still the best “I use billions of dollars of
military technology, to find tupperware in the woods”
It’s essentially a hide & seek for geeks with ammo-boxes and tupperware.
So far however it has taken me back to old haunts and on to find
places [...]

Manapouri lakes and Doubtful sound!

Hi all
Don’t know where to start!
I think we left you after the Kepler track, we’ve done a bit since then!
As soon as Wendy and I had recovered and stretched off the legs we cruised down the road to Manapouri, a bit south of Te Anau, for some stomping through the bush. After a bus trip [...]

Te Anau!

Hi all
Well today we are sitting in another internet cafe this time in te Anau promounced Teayarnow, Joe thinks its a good piratey name.
Well from invercargil we came here where we went for a 67km tramp, by the way a tramp in nz isnt a grubby man on the streets its a hike, well the [...]