November 2022 Another day, another set of squally showers, this time accompanying us to Te Aroha, a small town alongside the trail. Not sure what I expected but it wasn’t a tidy place with well-kept public areas, including a heritage precinct and some lovely parks and gardens. Sculptures made from scrap metal dot the main […]
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Hauraki Rail Trail – Waihi
November 2022 A Supertramp song is my earworm of choice this morning, It’s Raining Again playing round and round in my head. Between the lack of sun and the surrounding trees it’s dark enough to be a midwinter evening rather than a spring morning and I huddle by the heater. By lunchtime the deluge blows […]
Hauraki Rail Trail – Karangahake Gorge
November 2022 I like hills. Both cities I’ve lived in have been on and surrounded by hills. Flat land bores me, both to look at – nothing to see except sky – and to walk on. I even like hills in the sea; crashing stormy waves are much more interesting than calm water. Only time […]
Hauraki Rail Trail – Thames
November 2022 The northern counterpart to the Otago Rail Trail is the Hauraki Rail Trail. You know the type, used to be a railway line but now a safe place to pootle along on your bike without fear of being mashed by a truck or skittled off the road by a car. We planned to […]
Tracy Annenberg 