Speights...............mummmm, yumyum, we liked the tour and the tasting session afterwards. Apricot beer was a hit for me (Denyze) and Rich liked the carbo light beer. We did have a serious job that night of packing the trailer ready for an early start the next day, its fair to say it was not packed fantastically and there were a few bags left loitering on top of the trailer.
So the time had come to set off again on the next leg of the trip and head inland on the Taieri Gorge railway, this was our first 'cheat' of the trip and saved us two days hard cycling up hill so I see nothing wrong with that.... after some stunning scenery we finally made it to Pukarangi which as far as I can make out is a shed on the side of the railway tracks, no village or anything like that. We finally made it to a town called Middlemarch mid afternoon after doing battle with a headwind.
The start of the Otago central rail trail, it was a good start, sidewinds meaning that at times we had to lean the bike at an angle to stop our selves being blow off the bike or the track, one lady coming the other way was not so fortunate and was walking her bike and got blown off the track down the embankment it was that strong (she was fine if a little shaken up and embarrassed). So from the side wind inevitable came the headwind which was an absolute devil. We finally reached our destination after 8 hours of cycling!! Another day from hell followed with the head wind a constant, so much so that when we finally 'got to the top' and started cycling down hill we had to keep pedaling. But by day three the wind had turned (yippee) and we made good time to Alexandra nearly the last town on the trail..... only to find that the trailer after 4 days had developed a fault or rather it was falling apart! so we are holed up in Alexandra waiting for a replacement!! (yeah, right... we have hired a car and are in Queenstown!!)
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