Christchurch must have been a lovely city before the earthquake knocked it down, it is hard to believe it looks the way it does, there is still so much work ahead to get the city back. From Christchurch we headed inland to Mount Cook. We stopped at Lake Tekapo to look at the old stone church, the wind was just incredible and it had made riding so unpleasant, and scary for Julie. We could see lots of cloud in the direction of Mt Cook and we had been told that if y...

Just a quick blog to let you know we are now in New Zealand. Not wanting to brag, but on the way over we used our points to upgrade to Business Class with Emirates, wow, this is the way to travel! As my mother said,"so money can buy comfort", but it can't buy happiness. After this high we were finally let down by our bike, not that we really blame it. We went to pick it up from the shippers and had to jump start it, but when it stopped again we couldn't get it st...