Auckland

 Holiday time! Well a time to visit good friends in Auckland and I enjoyed Monday and Tuesday with Shelley and Paul. Rather than a couple of days off the bike it was a good opportunity to get out on our bikes and I was taken on a personal tour of the city and we also had a walk around Ponsonby - All very informative for a Christchurch boy who has very poor knowledge of our largest City.

On Wednesday before leaving Paul and Shelley it was my turn to take Paul on a ride. I'd designed a route using my favourite navigation tool "cycle.travel" and it was my turn to take Paul on bike trails he'd never ridden on but I'm sure he will going forward. Paul had the benefit of an E Bike and at one point after he took off up the road I was much slower getting up the hill. I must have looked down and then when I looked up again he was nowhere to be seen! I carried on straight up the hill but un beknown to me Paul had taken a left turn! All was solved with a phone call - Paul had stopped waiting for me and I'd carried on! We kept better tabs on each other after that...