Meeting people

New Zealand is a beautiful country and, despite the not so good weather so far, the trip is very enjoyable. One of the best parts is meeting a lot of new people everyday, locals, tourists and other cyclists. They are all very friendly and helpful and I want to dedicate this post to a few of them:

- a Canadian couple cycling around NZ whom I met the first day in Christchurch a who gave me some invaluable tips,

- admirable Sue from Oregon with her folding bike whom I met a few times on the way pushing hard regardless of the strong wind,

- Graham from Geraldine who let me use his barbeque, gave me lot of tips on places to see and offered to post some stuff for me to Dunedin,

- my biking buddies Matt and Roland for making me such a great company,

- a motel owner on the way to Lake Tekapo who let me for free pitch my tent in the backyard and use the motel’s showers and toilets

- Iain and Jess from Melbourne who checked my injured knee,

- two Kiwi couples in their campervans at Lake Tekapo who helped me fix my bike and were very friendly,

- a Chinese guy Ray who after 10 minutes chatting invited us all to stay with him China,

- the developer who rescued me from the strong wind and gave me a lift in his van to Twizel,

- owners of the hardware store in Twizel who let me use their landline to make overseas calls

and countless other.