We drove through the village to the cycle place where we were given a thorough briefing on how to put a helmet on and how the panniers fit on the bikes, the gearing and anything else that we needed to know. Then we were off on the Otago Central Rail Trail 150km. The bikes were great specially built for the trail with suspension and 'comfy' saddles. The first day was apparently the hardest, as it had the steepest gradient of the Trail. We cycled 35km amongst the ...

So this morning we decided to go and visit the Botanical Gardens as we only had a short drive today. We spent all morning there and it was great. As we had managed to acquire lunch whilst having breakfast we had a picnic ready made. We stopped about a hour out of Dunedin by a lake to eat this. When we got to Clyde it was about 3.30 and our friends were due at 4.00, by the time our hostess had showed us every room in the hotel, and then given us one in the gard...