A good ride all on sealed roads and not the route that I had tucked away in my mind! Clearly it pays to look more thoroughly at the route when one downloads it to ones Garmin navigation device! I my mind I had us travelling further West before riding up to Ahipara. It was not at all a problem and the end result of course turned out the same.
In new territory like this you are never sure of what lies ahead as far as refreshment stops are concerned and so at our breakfast stop about 15 km in to the journey I bought a muffin and a slice of ruhbarb, stawberry apple crumble for my lunch later. The crumble I had gald wrapped and put in a cardboard takeaway box then promply stuffed both in my front box and the lid closed! Pleased to see that at my lunch stop on the side of the road where for the first time I "boiled" the billy and had a cuppa with my Muffin. The crumble I saved till I was at our accommodation and can report that it too travelled really well and was exceptionally nice with my cuppa out under the shade of the grapevine over the pergola.
We had a stretch on S H Way One and it was noticable how much less traffic there is on it the further North you go.
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