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NZ inland scenic route
Cyclone Lusi Tour on hold
WEEKEND OF WEATHER
Well call me a cowardly or unadventurous person if you wish but I am not riding this week:-(
Cyclone-Lusi-lashing New Zealand
MetService has increased rainfall predictions for some areas and extended severe weather warnings to include South Canterbury and North Otago.
Heavy rain warnings remain in place for much of the northern and eastern parts of the North Island and extend to the South Island to include Nelson, Marlborough, much of Canterbury and North Otago.
Strong wind warnings gusting to 120kmh would continue for most of the day for Northland, Auckland and parts of Waikato before hitting Wairarapa, Wellington and Marlborough tonight.
Rakaia Gorge
Going in to a gorge when it tells you 2 km down at 8% the wize can assume that 2 km of up at 8 % will follow
I also got caught up in terrible traffic
Mrs Tiki winkle and the Chain Saw’s diggers
Well an interesting night the pub across from the camp site went quiet about 11. It was then the motion started just as I was about to sleep, switched on my torch to find a Hedgehog had joined me in the Tent it was trying to get in my bag of porridge quick move and Mrs tiki Winkle was gone and peace returned.
7 am and all hell broke lose I should have noticed the the road works on my way in and all the trees that were on the ground. There was too be no sleep after 7 am today
Peanut butter and chocolate spread
Life tastes real good and a super pump for Jon 😉
Day 15 Rhinau somewhere in France not on my map
Had fun getting out of Strasbourg but eventually crossed in to Germany having cycled 15 km to do it there I met a German cyclist called Claus Pongs from Baden Baden, who told me that the German side of the Rhine is not good for cycling and I would be better off taking another route through France, and if I would let him he would be my guide and take me to the place where it was easy to follow the route, so after a total of 37 km I finally left Strasbourg on a much nicer path and 10 km later it ended with a deviation through the woods. Have had 2 very good days in France.
One highlight for me was I was able to visit the Magiot Line, it has interested me since I was a small boy and I got to visit it was great. For those of you that don’t know what it is, it got to be the biggest waste of tax payers money ever, after the first world war the French defence minister Magiot had an impenetrable defensive line from Switzerland all the way to the Belgian boarder, to keep the Germans out, the rest is history the Germans did not attack the line they just came through neutral Belgium and thus the keys to the impenetrable defensive line were handed over to the Germans having never been used, and most of the French army in static positions far from where they were need to fight the invading Germans.
Going Slowly 