1000 kilometres!

Well! Yesterday, as we were crossing Blenheim, we clocked 1000 km, not bad!
We are very near the next change in our our adventure, but as always I will just tell you about past events...

(edit from Josele) I wanted to take a picture exactly when the counter showed 1000 km. but it reset itself to 0 as I have been using the trip counter and not the total counter! So I only have the photo taken 10 meters before.


It was a pity to leave Kaikoura, it really is a beautiful place and we had great times there, but time ran out and we had to move on. We took road number 1 to the north and after a pretty nice stretch of seaside road, we finished our day in a lonely farm in the middle of the Ure valley. Total population: 2 and a dog... as usual.

We were able to buy products from the farm and cook for dinner a very, very excellent barbecue together with the wine made out of the farmer's grapes. All of it in a sunny afternoon overlooking the rows of vines. Yes, we were clearly entering grape country!

The next day we did our easiest distance so far, just 56 km and we came through Blenheim to sleep in the middle of the very, very famous Malborough Valley. It is the biggest wine producing region in NZ and we intended to visit some wineries.

So between today and yesterday we have been able to have some much more fancy food and taste some good wine. We also have tasted a lot of normal wine, I have decided that with exceptions, NZ wine is not my favourite. We visited famous places, Clouby Bay, Seresin, Isabel and Wairau River and had lots of fun.
And still, even after all this poshers, we are having barbecue for dinner again!

(edit from Josele) I added to our latest entry one picture and two videos of our swim with the seals. Please check again that post to watch the videos as they are worth it. Also, the computer at the hostel does not read my Canon SD card, so I posted some photos I take with my IPhone while on the bike (the 999.99 km one I took standing).