Bike Tour in New Zealand

2008-10-30 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> How long are you planning to be touring? 'cause packing > for a two week > tour is very different from packing for 10 months on the > road! > Charlie > Who Has Spent Ten Months On The Road Maru you have me beat by several months. any advice would be greatly appreciated. the first time i di

Re: Bike Tour in New Zealand

2008-10-30 Thread Charlie Bell
On 31/10/2008, at 7:59 AM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > The first time I did a bike tour, in 1987, I decided at the last > minute to go do s bikr tour, so I went to REI, bought their new 21 > speed Novara hybrid, and took it to LAX. Air New Zealand was kind > enough not to charge

Bike Tour in New Zealand

2008-10-30 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Stewart > > Island, and the South Island. > Nice. I'm still thinking about doing NZ on my trike. > What sort of bike would you build? > C. The first time I did a bike tour, in 1987, I decided at the last minute to go do s bikr tour, so I went to REI, bought their new 21 spe

Re: New Zealand

2008-09-22 Thread Euan Ritchie
trade negotiations with the USA. Meanwhile, the rest of us might like to ask how much it will cost and what we will have to give up in order for New Zealand farmers to make a bit more money. Fortunately, the US Trade Representative compiles an annual report on "Foreign Trade Barriers", which is quite

New Zealand

2008-09-21 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> I don't know such detail. New Zealand does have > stricter than typical > bio-security laws because of the influence agriculture and > tourism has > on our economy. Among other reasons past attempts by E.U > countries to > denigrate NZs meat industry (in attempt

Re: New Zealand

2008-09-21 Thread Euan Ritchie
r the impression that there were laws against using chemical > fertilizers > and injecting domestic ruminants with steriods, antibiotics and hormones. > Is that still the case? I don't know such detail. New Zealand does have stricter than typical bio-security laws because of the influen

New Zealand

2008-09-21 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> Coincidentally I happen to be a New Zealander > NZ's population is just over 4 million (in a country > 20% larger than the > U.K), we have more like 60 millions sheep currently and not > many of > their pastures were rain forests (only the very North of NZ > is > sub-tropical, mostly we've a temp

New Zealand students offer reward for Rice arrest

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Louis Mann
I got a huge kick out of this!~) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_re_au_an/rice_student_arrest ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l