New Zealand- Day 7

Last ride day. Ormlie Lodge did not serve breakfast until 8.30 so we were able to sleep in until 7.30 which was nice. Strange breakfast though with no cereal or fruit or toast - just coffee and eggs fried or poached. Interesting. Hostess Anne-charlotte (French) was lovely though and nothing was too ,such trouble.

Off in the sunny but cool weather again and headed into some very picturesque countryside where again there were lots of Apple's and kiwifruit  being grown. Huge windbreak hedges lined the roads and the bikeway returned to running on the top of the levee banks.

Stopped at the beautiful Mission winery which is centred on an old Catholic training centre for priests - beautiful old building and it has been done up into a very upmarket restaurant and cellar door.

Jenny's  instructions let us down for the first time after that as here was some confusion over cemeteries and we could not find the intended path. Luckily we found some general sighnposting to get us back into Napier but apparently missed seeing a sheep farm - decided we've seen enough sheep anyway.

Back into Napier by 3 and had to do a bit of shopping and banking and finally dropped the bikes back with Jenny by 4. Fabulous ride which had covered over 260km with some fairly challenging climbs in parts so we've both done very well.