Riding through a calendar

I've just been to a family wedding. It was at the other end of the South Island, in Queenstown, a place I've been going to since I was a small child. It's a very different place from the early 60s, but the magic is still there!

The trip was like riding through a calendar - the Lewis Pass full of yellow flowering broom. And on a bike, you get the full deal - fragrance and all! The tussock landscape of the Mackenzie\Lindis, coloured with turqoise jewel lakes of Tekapo and Ohau. The trip home was just as spectacular - over the Crwon Range, with snow falling, and through the rain to Haast, with hundreds of waterfalls through to the West Coast.

It's easy to get busy, head down, forget what we've got around us. We live in paradise - but you only to get to see it by going there.

Summer's coming up. If there are places you want to see, go. Plan. Do. Enjoy.