Hi, I thought I would tell you about some of the non-cycling things that we have done recently since there is only so much to say about cycling - although it is amazing. I think that I understand why if you read travel books by cyclists or autobiographies by sports people they don't tend to talk that much about the training and stuff because there are only so many ways to describe beautiful views or difficult hills... We bungee jumped! We were cycling to Hanmer...

Hello, I am now in Christchurch and survived the two hottest days on record (according to two people in a shop in a place called Cheviot ) whilst cycling two 60km days including the vertical hill! I am very happy about this but have found out how exhausting doing stuff in that kind of heat and getting up at 5 am to avoid doing stuff in that kind of heat is! I realised that I have not been telling you about the places that we are staying so I thought I would d...