Keith Bryers

Part of Hauraki Rail Trail. Lots of intensive dairy farming! Very quiet (19 Jan 2025). Stopped at The Cheese Barn, which was not all it's cracked up to be in some blogs but OK. Nice wee room overnight at Pedlar's Rest Motel, Paeroa.

Mixture of signposted cycle routes and "quiter" roads though traffic diversions were in force on the day we cycled it (17 Jan 2025), making the roads busier. Decent B&B with Clair at 273 Paparimu Road.

Hilly to start but quiet roads. No shops/cafe until Milard Farm shop on the coast. All flat (obviously!) on Waitaka Rail Trail. Good accom at Lady Bowen Guest House, Thames (18 Jan 2025).

We had a good breakfast at TT Lodge and they sold us a packed lunch; they also took our luggage on to their depot at Ongarue, which is about 5km past the finish of the TT Trail. It was an easier day than the one before, with some cracking singletrack. The staff at the depot kindly allowed us to hav…