Cycling to ‘Siberia’, wheels to wine

‘So just a kilometre from here is the spot they call Siberia,’ Stuart tells me.  ‘It gets so windy there that in September a train was blown off the track and ended up suspended, carriages hanging off like a piece of string.’ I am significantly smaller than a train, balancing on a bicycle, and thereContinue reading “Cycling to ‘Siberia’, wheels to wine”

The Rimutaka Trail

So just a kilometre from here is the spot they call Siberia,’ Stuart tells me. ‘It gets so windy there that in September a train was blown off the track and ended up suspended, carriages hanging off like a piece of string.’ I’m significantly smaller than a train, balancing on a bicycle, and there isContinue reading “The Rimutaka Trail”

Up With People, down in the Wairarapa

‘In any town there’s a kid with a guitar.’ we both say, gulping down coffee in the early morning sun. As well as both being convinced of this fact, Mark Rogers and I both believe that this, and a bit of ‘get up and go’, is  all that is  needed to start gigs in anyContinue reading “Up With People, down in the Wairarapa”