by Anne Betts | Jun 19, 2021 | New Zealand, Cycling Trips
Opened in 2000, New Zealand’s Original Great Ride is the 152-kilometre Otago Central Rail Trail. The pioneering ride follows the route of the former Otago Central branch railway from Clyde to Middlemarch in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island. The classic...
by Anne Betts | May 23, 2021 | New Zealand, Cycling Trips
The Clutha Gold Trail connects with the Roxburgh Gorge Trail, two of New Zealand’s newer off-road trails for hikers and cyclists. Both follow the historic trails of Otago’s gold-mining past. Because one trail ends where the other begins, they can be combined to create...
by Anne Betts | Apr 22, 2021 | New Zealand, Cycling Trips
Two of New Zealand’s more recent additions to the country’s vast network of off-road cycling trails, the Roxburgh Gorge and Clutha Gold, follow the historic trails of Otago’s gold-mining past. Because one trail ends where the other begins, they can be combined...
by Anne Betts | Jul 31, 2016 | Cambodia, Cycling Trips
I’ve never waffled so much about a trip as I did with cycling in Cambodia. This type of indecisiveness was a stark contrast to other adventures where I’m usually the first one out the gate. Source of my hesitation It wasn’t the cycling, and it wasn’t Cambodia. It was...