Planning our return to New Zealand

No its not an April Fools joke! The time is right to start planning our long overdue return trip to New Zealand. 

A wedding invitation from our good friends Matt & Gilly is one we’re not going to turn down, and it’s as good an excuse as any for us to return to the land of the long white cloud since leaving its shores back in 2012.

We’ve often talked about a bicycle touring holiday as an adventure we’d both like a crack at, and here’s hoping this is the opportune time to give it a go! 

Having lived in New Zealand for 12 years, we’re familiar with the country, the culture, the customs, and the climate. We know the geography and the topography (which of course might come back to haunt us when we hit the first big uphill!). We can speak the language (roughly), and read the road signs, and it will be summer (we hope) when we get there.  All up it seems a perfectly logical choice of destination for a first-time bicycle tour…

Except maybe for the fact that it is almost 12,000 miles away, and we’ve never had to organise the logistics of taking two bicycles on an aeroplane before!

Let the planning begin…