by Corinne | Dec 13, 2020 | Trips
After a fab morning in the sunshine at the market talking bikes to the good people of Morrinsville, we swapped bikes and headed for Awakino where we settled into the hotel with “a couple of jugs of Monteith’s black” over a good natter. We got lucky...
by Corinne | Nov 15, 2020 | Trips
We had a fantastic weekend away! It was a great excuse to finish work early on Friday . It was 28°C on the trip down to National Park after work. Good beer, ok food, and an ace group. Saturday breakfast at the Blue Hills Cafe in Owhango was awesome and some lovely,...
by Corinne | Nov 15, 2020 | Trips
Did you see us at the Morrinsville Country Market? We took our Motorcyclist’s Bee Sting Kits and Ventz from our shop down to the Morrinsville Country Market and spent the morning talking about our rides to anyone and everyone! It was so nice to meet lots of...
by Corinne | Aug 4, 2020 | Trips
June 2020 was a month to reset. After our aborted trip in March (thanks Covid!) we arranged 4 weekends away through June. #1 – We went back to Waipu in Northland. Level 2 restrictions saw a reasonably long wait for a table at McLeods for pizza and beer, but well...
by Corinne | Feb 7, 2020 | Trips
There is something about Northland – the combination of farmland and glittering coastal scenery, the flowing roads, the overwhelming peace, the generous and relaxed people… it’s alluring. If it wasn’t for the Auckland blockage between there and here, we’d spent a lot...
by Corinne | Dec 15, 2019 | Trips
The Christmas craziness was looming – on the roads, but more so at work and I had a hankering to go to the East Cape – although this hankering is nothing new! We’d heard that there was some fair accommodation at the Tokomaru Bay pub where I hadn’t stayed for 16 years...
