OK , long time without writing here , I was too busy cycling and sometimes you need to wait for the right time before you write something.
The north island of new zealand is not as “famous” as his southern brother, less tourists and more locals and maybe because of that we were enjoying so much from this part of the country. The locals are really friendly (even more then the southern brothers) and every day we asked to camp in farms and we had the chance to see how this farmers live: one is having cattle of ships and the other making cheese from water buffalo, they like to be self suffusion as much as they can they making there own meat and there own beer(much more important for some people…).
even the pigs here like beer!!!
There is more traffic then in the south island but we took side roads and we felt alone with the amazing nature, the weather is unstable and we got days with a lot of rain like an old women told me after she looked at the sky : “it seems like you going to have a wet pans today!” sometimes we took shelters in barns and make a hot and strong coffee while we were waiting for the rain from the sky to stop.
wet and ugly feet
One road took as to a villages name Athens and after that to London but we were surprised to see even a village called Jerusalem! 20Km from this village and out of it we had dirt road with many climbs so its funny to think that even the new zealand Jerusalem will taste your limits and nothing come easy …
even in the end of the world-jerusalem
to enter to Auckland city was pretty “interesting”,its the biggest city in new zealand with trucks and heavy traffic and like everywhere in the world there is many road signs of the “new best thing in life” or “what kind of cream you need to take to look as good as the model on the sign” and of course I got to have the I phone 4 to have much better life then before. Searching for the imposicle
Every where in the world people think that they need to wait in a Que for there dream.
Sad but true and I will wait to the I phone 10.
thats the way to wake up!
one of the tools that I got in the journey is a bigger perspective of life and I could understand that the people that told me that entering to Auckland city will be hell never enter Istanbul or Nairobi on a bicycle…
with josh and billy
in Auckland we meet David, a young cyclist that we meet in the south island and it was nice to see the city with him ,Auckland is nice city very green and they even have a mountain with the name of Eden (like my sponsors) and the sunset from this hill was great with good colors with the skyline of the city was magic moment.
mount Eden
David wrote an article about me in the local paper with a lot of passion for the dream and for the road that only guys that have been on the road can understand .
keep on keep on paddling
I sorted out my visa back to Australia and payed my way to my last visa in this journey and me and etamat were happy to be again on the road and to earn our rice with meet (different sauce every day), believe me that after a long day of cycling everything is much taster and we had amazing dinner together.
We started out last leg of the journey in new zealand and worked our way up on the beautiful Bay of Island a place with great beaches and small islands everywhere but again even in this gorgeous place you can see that the locals will be prettier then the landscape.
bay of island
The next chapter will be getting to the top of new zealand to cape brienga where the Tasmanian sea meets the pacific ocean and where we will finish our journey in this country .
It will be a magic time.
Love you all
roei “jinji” sadan
close to the top of far north
new zealand
The world
