I learnt a valuable lesson whilst being on this trip. If a hostel offer you rent free bikes.... immediately DECLINE. Fancied ourselves a nice trip up to the huge Redwood Forest in Rotorua. The nice man at the desk offered for us to use their bikes for free... Free bikes? Or pay $40 to hire... Be rude not to. The bikes were there... Ready and waiting... Like a couple of vicious dogs, ready to attack...Sorry, whilst writing this blog, I look down, and there's...

My dear Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots... "PROUDFEET!"Sorry folks, had to be done... And if you don't have a pickle what that is referring to... Well, shame on you! Go back to the shadows of which you came... You're banned from reading anymore of my entries. Not sure that poses as a threat to any of you really... So yeah, we definitely visited the bloody SHIRE didn't we...