Day 60 to 63: Zea Land Rocks but is bloody cold

I've hired a car and am now driving around the coast of the north island which is awsome. i've decided that im flying out to Aus on the 9th of august as all my clothes are summer wear and im freezy my nads off and as i dont wont to have to buy a whole new out fit. instead ill come back in the summer time when its nice and worm :) so in till then im quite happily driving around meeting crazy locals and planning my return. Not seen any hobits yet but im looking for them

heres a few pics

Rome Pics

New Zealand update

I'm still  alive, well I'm in new Zealand now in Auckland its cold and wet so not much different than England. Its a well long flight but manged to get bumped up to business class some how for no extra cost plus i did not have to pay for going over my weight limit so good times. After flying business class I'm not sure i will be able to go back to cattle class as being able to stretch out and drink bubbly all they way mad the flight quite enjoyable. Dubai was quite cool was able to buy a xbox 360 mag. After arriving in new Zealand had to send my tent of to the anti bi cops thank fully it passed.

after have a look around on Saturday decided that I'm going to hire a car and drive around the north island then pop down to Christchurch then ride around the south island but that mite all change

at moment I'm have a cooked breakfast in the coffee club and wait around d for my car to be ready there ha s been  a small problem as the bike rake has not turned up but that just a miner set back. it good to be able to talk English and understand what people are saying

Day 46 to 49: i think they are trying to kill me

Day 46: waited around for the feery and read my SAS survail guide ( yes i was bored ) bumped in to two irish guys on holiday manged to in insult them by say they speak english and they where like no we are irish, at which point i pointed out if they where talking irish which galic how would i have understood them thus they must speaking english as dont speak any thing else.... it was a very quick converstion after that. meet another guy on there ferry this time english who was trying to set a new record for number of music festival visted in 30 day which i thought was pretty cool plus he bought me three beers which all ways helps

Day 47: a long hot day not much else happened

Day 48: this was a hard days ride up lots of hill along very narrow road and tunnels. Since starting this trip i've come the point of be at peace with the possablity of death by trific accident, but there are two things that still scare the *%^$ out of me. First being  tunnels as they are normally badly lit and have no hard shoulder and trucks seems to take great delite in almost hit me, which bring me on two the secound point be nocked in to the side of a tunnel but left mutilated but a alive. if your are wonder where this is coming from there where lot of tunnells and i spent most of the trip thinking about this.

Day 49: no tunnels just crazy romen drives. it was when i enter the Rome its self that i became convidesd that every one was out to get me do they even have a trafic code here well if they do i can work it out..... im safe now in my hotel about to go eat so all well that ends well

p.s. happy B-day minkey Ben

Day 43 ,44 & 45 : humm thing change

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Day 43: Well after staying at that hotel of i set the journey was pretty much your bog standered slog until i tried to cross over to rab at which point i found out that not every where has cash points or takes plastic. so i had to go all the way back up the hill and keep on going thankfully the ferry to Pag exsepted plastic. it was just as the island come in to view that i relized my mistake, the east of the island was barren it was like riding across the desert, but when i reach civilsation i found that pag is the party island of crotia with lot of fat russions and girls that look like the strippers normally not a look i mind to much not it had just spent a hour riding in the scorching heat and could all think about have a shower and going to sleep so i pushed on for a another hour or so and found a nice ish camp site (it was nice but very busy, the staff where very helpfull) set up camp eat food and went to sleep.

Day 44:set of quite early trying to get to Zader as quickly as poss as i was planning on getting a ferry back to italy. one thing im constaly think about is the motcycle acctident random i know, but  no one where protective gear out here just normal beach wear which to my mind does provide much protection. Any gor to Zader found a place with internet, and eat out for the first time since latvia all those many moons a go.

Day 45: Manged to book the ferry tic today also done quite bit of thinking about what im going to do next and i've made a small change to my plan im fyling from rome to zealand. There are a number of reason for this, but the main one is i want to be able to talk to people in english. I've booked my flight for the 20th so i've got a few days to get to rome and sort out my bike and packing.

Day 41 & 42: Ups and Down

Well it seems like a while since i last did my blog but it only been 2 days the last 4 days have been some of the hardest riding of done, and my bobdy after the 5 day break is struggling to keep up. My legs and low back are having minor spasms. so I’ve called it day and decided to treat my self ( i have a remarkable talent for doing that i find) im stay in a 4 star hotel with private beach and sea side view only down side is tomorrow i have ride up a massive hill to get back to the road. The country side and areas that i have been riding across have been lovely and I would probable if was not riding be enjoying my self more but i’ve found my self very much effected by weather im going uphill or downhill. I love going downhill I’ve mangled to reach a top speed of 55 which i could probable beat but the road keep going around corners and as my bike is on a par with a brick i don’t thinks thats going happen sadly. On server of the hill my brake fingers have started to go num so im quite surprised that my brakes or my fingers have not yet failed. It surprising what being in a hotel can do for the level of moral for the last three days i’ve gone to bed thinking about quiting, yet now that the last thing i would want to do.  I find it quite funny how quickly my mood changes and how quickly i forget i.e the hate the hill as im riding up it, i then go down it and it was the best hill ever. Only problem being i spent 2 hours riding up it and 5 mins coming down it. It just does not seems fair. Well im going to finish their im going to go swimming then read a book.


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Pics lots of pics

Day 39 & 40: next time im flying

All i can say about to day is im very very tied croatie in the north east is very hilly my legs fell like jelly, its beutifull but hilly hope full it all down hill from here. oh but on a up side i did three country in one day so not bad going got a little lost when entering Slovenia but some how manged to bump in to a english speaking cyclist who was all so going the same way. he was even madder than me he had been riding for 6 hours already and i meet him at 7:30 in the moring madness. im planning on doing some island hoping in the next couple of day which should be fun. sorry to tied to write my phone does not seem to work either here so ill only have contact via email,blog & skype


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Day 37 & 38: just go with the flow

just a bit of catching up first

this is the journey from the wedding to loris parents house, i selpt and read a book for most of it while listening to A tell L to slow down a most funny but you had to be there


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Day 37 had half a beer and cold pizza for breakfast and devleped a cold/ temp which im still suffering from.

Today well this was the plan a nice easy day, after 5 days of eating and drinking it should have taken 4 hours tops.


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7 hours later im here, not quite sure what happened so im going leave at that, the only one interesting thing that happened to day was when i asked a fellowing cyclest me "do you speak english " response " a little " me "where am i" so after that me got talking i explained that i was heading towards greece at which point i was told i must so go down the med instead of going down italy, at which i must ask you to close you eyes and try and imagen a large pear shaped man who looks like he lves the paste a little to much do a shuffle dance on the path way as means of explaning locations and place to while shaking his hips to indicate good loctions while turning over his shoulder and shouting "molto buona" (very good) while try not to laugh or show any fear, but after the demistration i felt i had to follow his adice as he had put so much effort in to it...... so what im doing

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Day 32,33, 34,35 & 36 : "its all i have ever wanted"

Its been a a while and large amounts of alchool have been consomed so it a little hazey but ill give it a go

on day 32 or wen 29th of june i bumped in to a english cyclist a 2nd year student who was all so cycling to istanbull so we exchanged detail just in case after the wedding we happen to be in the some country or with in a couple days ride distance at the point of writting this im in italy and he is in germany so prob not going to happen but we will see. so carried on my ride back to the wedding loction, and set up camp.

Thur every ones finally turned up, but before i could meet up with them i had to ride to the recption place and drop my bike of as i was getting a lift, well in it was up amassive hill and all i can say is im glad that i did not have ride up in a suit as no one would be wanting to sit next to me. thank fully i of the the girls that worked there gave a me a lift to the train staion. After a quick kabab i meet up with the englanders in the irish bar (they are every where crazy) it was a very touching moment

well ater a few drinks went back to there hostel where every one bar me, seemed to fall a sleep. But i was saved from totall bordem by mel and frank ..........(andy hehehehe, i kept forgetting his name and im not even sure his a andy but ha ho), mel and bob finaly arrived and me meet up dinner and cocktails, i order what seemsed to be a very manly cocktail the indiana jones which happened to be perhaps the not so manly as it had half a fruit salad stuck in it but it tasted nice and im man engough to pull it off so what the hell. i got the train back got of at the wrong stop had to walk half hour back to camp site and my sandles broke but i was to tied to care

wedding day: it was only after a had dropped off my bike and all my stuff bar wash kit ,pants, sleeping and tent i found out it was not till 1ish i was being picked up so basically after waking up at 7 i had 6 hours to kill with only a i-pod to keep me company. well 4 cups of coffee later i was bouncing of the walls and all ready packed and dressed in my suit by 10 o'clock i stayed in this state for a further 4 hours as my lift did not arrive till 2ish i was all so starving as all me food was with my bike. i finlly arried at the wedding and while i did not understand what was going for most of it some thing to do with backpacks, whereing wigs ,sword fighting and plates in backpacks not really sure what was going on but the bride was a laughing so that all thats matters. at this point i should probable say that both the bide and groom where looking hot and that i have never seen some on so smily as ina (the bride) her face must have been killing her after wards. The bits a did understand where very touching. after wards we left the church and the bride and groom planted them self in front of a tent of food which meant to had to say some thing nice to them before you could eat. In near staving state this bordering on a seriouse breach of my human rights and down right craulty but manged to draw on my remaning streagth to utter some words before dash to the food where i stuffed my face. It was shortly after this that newly wed couple had to cut a tree down some thing todo with enforcing team work from the very start of the marriage, while trying to be the one to actully cut the tree down, so pretty much like most marriages smiles on the out side while trying to screw the other one over :) joking honest. we then moved to the reciption place where we dressed up as cowboys and waited for the bride and grome to turn up after the photo shoot, we then wrote message on cards wich me attahced heliem bollens i manged to get 3 of them i wanted to make sure ours went the highest not really sure why one would write a message to some then try to ensure that they never see it must a german thing. the couple a arrived we relised our bollens then ruched to the collected our glass of bubly the cardif crew got there first no surprise really ( cardif crew = uni mates, reading crew = school friends( there is a little cross over as some RC joined the CC(but no ones perfect so we will let them off))) we then had dinner then i kept drinking till 4 o'clock when i decided i needed to go to bed as i was leaving at 6 to meet up with A&L to get a lift to itally :) hehehehee

so saturday woke up after 1 and half hours sleep  feeling awfull had shower said good bye and set off, thank fully the hill had to ride up two days ago, all had to do was roll down it manged to hit 50km a hour before i thought if any thing is come the other way my hange mite finish a lot quicker than is natural so i slowed down. maged to find my way with out getting lost to waldorf where i meet up with A&L ( cant remember how to speel there names ill ask them tomorrow :) ) so put mu bike in the there trailer and set off for itally 9 hours latter we arried to some amazing food and wine lots of wine i love it here it one uro for a litre of wine. went to bed well stuffed.

woke up today around 9ish i think cant remember after a quick breakfast popped to the shops and then came back for more food and wine. played some card game went for a walk then had pizza then went for ice cream at 23:00 ( when say ice cream i mean proper ice cream the sort that will kill from a hart attack it thank fully next to hospital so that says it all really). its a hard life this cycling