Now, we appreciate us and our time here.

It is with sadness in our hearts as we leave this beautiful country and all of these helpful and nice people. It's been a pleasure to be allowed to travel around in a country so easily with so many diverse environments that are breathtaking one after each turn.

We've also got to know some amazing people that we now have to leave. But we are lucky, they'll come and see us at some time in Sweden. We also have a ticket back to New Zealand in October so when we have time to visit some of these goa friends again.

Here are the bikes now, out at sea ...

Motorcycles are packed and sent, and we sit in the dining room at YHA Auckland International and eat up the last remnants. It's nice weather and we are waiting for the bus to pick us up at the airport. We have said goodbye to the staff here at the hostel as we come to know a bit because this is the fourth time we live here.

So PLEASE, New Zealand, we will again ...

Now we've arranged everything.

We have been talking with Carotrans o, a company that belongs to Mainfreght and can receive our bikes when they come to Australia.

We have been two times in customs and arrange all the paperwork for the customs out our bikes from New Zealand, that is, carnets are filled out and stamped and we received a special export documents show that motorcycles are exported to Australia.

We have also been on the Australian Consulate and orderly so that we have received 12-month tourist visa to Australia, but how many enter and exit, we want during this period.

Then we went to Wilhelmsen shipping two times. First, we were picked up and all documents to be filled in order to take bikes on board the MV Mignon who sail from the port of Auckland on the 23rd of April. Then we left and all the paperwork filled out and was told that the bikes can be loaded at the earliest as of April 19 and the last on 21 th April.

Then we got a call and book with a transport company that can take on our bikes as ordinary individuals are not allowed to stay in port. We got some time booked with him on the 21st April at 09:00 at the main entrance to Auckland's port.

Then we go up to the Emirates airline office and asking us if we really needed a ticket from Australia again. Their rules say they can not let anyone on board to Australia if they have not booked a ticket from there again. We explained that, since we know neither the time or where we should go after Australia, it could be difficult to book a ticket for five or six months before we even arranged to transport bikes. It does not matter, we must have a ticket from Australia, period.

So we went down to a travel company in Auckland and booked a ticket back to New Zealand in late October because that is around the dates we are going from Australia and hopefully then to Chile, but we'll see what we can arrange to in transportation time. But in any case it seemed cheaper to travel to Chile via New Zealand so when it is approaching that we shall proceed to South America, we already have a ticket to New Zealand and so we only book one to South America somewhere. She told us that when it is just as well to book a return ticket or else we face the same problem again that we do not have a ticket from South America, also appeared that a round trip ticket was cheaper than a simple ticket ...

We have booked accommodation in a youth home in Sydney because without a "permanent address" can not get into Australia.

Kjell has been plugged in was the master switch on our bikes so that you can break away battery. This is because if they are to stay on a boat in a week the computer on motorcycles to pull so much power that the batteries will be empty when they come to Australia. It's easier to just turn a key than to unscrew the wires from the battery.

Kersti, Karin's sister had arranged for more medical Kjell, sent it with DHL, hit a friend in Auckland. But because he was not home when the news came just took the back pack and then we have to chase it all over Auckland. For a while they did not really know where it was located but now anyway Joel, o been downloaded it and put it in his fridge and we get it on Wednesday when we meet again.

We also washed the bikes again and made sure that they are clinically clean, otherwise they will not receive them in the port and loading them onto the boat. Then we went out on a motorcycle company and was replaced Kjell solvisir in the helmet because it has sat in his newly purchased helmet was not working as it should. They changed it without problems on the guarantee.

Between all this we managed to push the food shopping, cooking and dinner break and then we decided to write a bit in the blog too. We launched a washing machine and then managed to get up and hang the wet clothes before we went to work. Clean clothes must have.

After all this, we amused ourselves. We took a moment's break from work and everything went up the Sky Tower. As I said before, I'm not happy about heights but you do not have to stand and look down through the glass pane in the bottom of the lift, which makes it easier.

Here is nedaför Wilhelm's office, Australian consulate office and Emirates ...

We were richly rewarded up there where we stood and watched as the sun went down in Auckland and the horizon became darker and darker. Before we come down again had the lights tonight in Auckland had time to light up. As we walked home we were both pleased and excited that we managed to arrange everything and that everything slowly but surely coming together.

Another day in a traveling motorcyclist is living out.

The tower from the outside, high ...

Since we have not had time to take some pictures earlier today so it was just some pictures from the view of Auckland from SkyTower included.

Sunset over Auckland ...

Auckland

Auckland is a small city, but if you compare big cities in other countries. Here it is huge, with its one million inhabitants. Auckland and the surrounding area has about 1.5 million inhabitants, which means that about 33% of its population living in this region. The capital of New Zealand Wellington thought but in reality Auckland functioning more as such. Here are all the main ...

There is also the most crime of course. A Friday or Saturday night you can hear sirens all the time. When we drove through the center on Friday was largely cordoned off the center and one of the banks was probably the victim of a robbery. There were police everywhere and we were slowly but steadily conducted from the traffic police.

Cordoned off ...

For us it's not a big city. We ran with our bikes through cities such as Bangkok, Tokyo and St. Petersburg, Auckland so it feels a bit like a small town to us. The city itself can be compared with Helsingborg, both in appearance and size. It is also a lot of hills and has a port in the center.

The port in the center ...

New Zealand as a country is fantaskiskt. It would be easy to move here and feel at home here. Running around as a tourist is no problem and found himself immediately corrected. It's like Europe in many ways so it's easy to find both living and shopping. Skylting along the road looks and acts much like in Europe and the roads are really nice. Traffic is not a problem for most is the speed and regularity, and this is not much traffic for more than a day and in the cities.

These roads will of course have no ...

Where did the time go?

Now it starts to go against our last time in New Zeealand. Soon two months have flown away. But ... we've seen a lot, hit a lot of nice roads, met wonderful people, had a great time and seen nature so different from our natural home.

Sausages Break with spectators ...

There is everything from mountains to the finest beaches. We have fished, sailed, traveled by ferry, camp, lived in small cabins and hotels, helicopter and cable car gone and thrown snowballs at one another on a glacier, bathed in hot springs and drinking ice-cold water directly from the waterfall.

There is so much beauty along the roadside to watch ...

We've been on the northern tip of North Island and the southern tip of South Island and in between, we have tried to run in as many ways as we possibly could, back and forth through this amazing country.

Culture Break the Tui Brewery. ...

We also have our usual, met new friends here. Among others, Brian and Jocelyn who we live with right now in Papamoa in the North Island's east coast. They let us stay with them and we can borrow their washing machine and garage to prepare us for our continuing journey.

Scrub on Brian o Jocelyn driveway ...

Right now we are preparing ourselves to pack up bikes and send them to Australia. Kjell has been broken all my (Karin) and motorcycle cleaning filters, changing legislation, and washed the whole bike from the inside out. It may not be the slightest smutsflaga left on them when they enter the final check before they are shipped to Australia. I have emptied out all our belongings and being clean. Sleeping bags, pillows, blankets and all our clothes are in neat piles, clean and nice, and should only be packed down again. Just as well to be careful ...

The last few days we drove from Wellington and come up to Papamoa. We have had good weather but it's getting colder here too in the North Island for the fall is on its way with great strides. When we were on the rise Kjell rear tire began to feel strange. It was as if it was solved ...

After looking very carefully, we found that on the right side around the entire deck had become a hole in the rubber so that you could see cordes (metal) in the deck, and the whole deck seemed completely solved.

Kjell's tires with holes and all ...

What had happened was that when Kjell was punctured, it has probably got into the air between Cordes and rubber, then the entire deck and detached in the curves, it has therefore become a hole straight back rubber. Good thing we ran so quietly that he had a puncture again.

Time to change ...

I had to order new tires and when we were on the move so we ordered all four wheels. New fresh tires for both of us. It was much needed because we have not changed since we ran away from home ...

Beautiful 'terrace' ...

With the new tires were new to motorcycles. We drove the last mile up to Papamoa in two days and we stayed basically just to make us some hot dogs on the beach and sleeping on a camp. Suddenly, it was so great to just run again. New tires do the trick ...

From south to north ...
Right now we are sitting in a small cabin on a camp in Picton. To drizzle outside and there are perhaps 5 degrees hot. It smells like the sea.
We have been and bought tickets for the ferry to go away tomorrow and it cost $ 214 to go over with two pieces of motorcycles to the North Island again. We were out shopping at the supermarket and have just eaten a simple chili stew with meat and beans and a baked potato to it. It's what you can do in as simple a kitchen like this in the camping cabin. Me now, we are full and warm again.

Today's run was pretty cool. When we left Hanmers running this morning the snow along the roadside in some places.

Outside the hotel, together with Anthony.

When we were in Bluff, we met Anthony Edward who owned the hotel, the Bay View Hotel, where we lived. He turned out to be a real motorcycle enthusiast and still compete with their bikes as fast as he has time. We sat and talked with him until some time after at one, then we drove on.

World's Fastest Indian ...

We drove into the Invercargill to watch Burt Munro a motorcycle, the world's fastest Indian, who stands inside at E Hayes & Sons Ltd, which is a hardware store and a museum.

On this beach Munro trained to become the fastest in the world ...

A great business which he uses while screwdrivers and tools can take the opportunity to look at all the motorcycles and old machines that are given throughout the store.

This is what I call hardware ...

There is also an engine built by Norman Hayes pots, wood, a steamer and other gamalt scrap. Originally flask of hard wood but it is now replaced with a metal piston.

Viewing the home-made engine ...

As we stood there and studied for a long while the engine was one of the employees and asked if we wanted to see the engine running, and of course we wanted it. So we got a private tour of this amazing creature that worked great.

Since we began our journey northward. The weather was not exactly perfect all the time but mostly we had a break while we drove over the pass, one finer than the other. We have run over the highest paved pass called Crown Range Summit and that it is 1076 meters above sea level.

High and beautiful ...

We've been running on very straight roads and on very winding roads. At the lakes, and coasts and the mountains so beautiful that it just boggles. I think we mentioned it before but I will say it again, this is so beautiful that you hardly believe their eyes.

At one point, people had built sculptures out of a beach, beautiful ...

When we were in Wanaka, it was also an air show, over Wanaka Warbird. A whole day was Kjell away and looked at the old aircraft and flight times.

Warbird ...
There were Spitfires, Mustangs, Yak in various versions from World War II, Catalina, Hercules, F-16 and lots of other goodies. Here were all south of the Earth aviation enthusiasts gathered so Kjell was in good company all day.

We have also been looked at and Franz Josef glacier.

It took about an hour to walk the walk up to the glacier but it was worth it. It is almost like a living organism that grows and shrinks very slowly and it flows down into the valley.

The water gushed out of a tunnel under the ice. When we walked in the valley you could see the tracks off the ice from long ago when the glacier was greater. Far up the mountain sides, there were scuff marks from the ice.

Here you can watch out for the train ...

New Zealand is a wonderful place. It can run in valleys along rivers with clean water so that you can easily drink the water. There are waterfalls everywhere in the valleys that plunge from the heights and down into a river near the bottom. There are narrow bridges where you can not meet another car, it is even bridges that you share with rail ...

Autumn has come ...
Driving around the South Island, where autumn has its pages. It is very beautiful but the weather can be fickle and sometimes sunny and nice, or so it strikes on a few hours and becomes cloudy, cold and wet.

But of course we knew this before so you have to dress so that you can manage to run in the mountains when there are only seven degrees and raining. When you come out to the coast tend to be better and then you have to stop and take the place of rain, wind jacket and a thick coat that you had to survive.

Welcome to Shanty Town ...

We drove up in a historical little village called Shanty Town (S42 32 100 E171 10 952) A nice little break with the steam train journey, visit sawmills and gold panning. Sometimes you need a little rest from the motorcycling.

Gold Panning Spirit of Japanese people with own guide and all ...

It was a nice museum where you could see what it looked like a typical small town in NZ in the early 1900's.

The main road in Shanty Town ...

Rails in the jungle ...

Rail passengers ...

We drove across the island and over the Arthur Pass It rained on us almost all the time but through the rain drops could see how beautiful this can be a nice day.

When the weather that we took pictures it was such a beautiful ...

Arthur Pass ...

The roads over the pass is so fine ...

Can you park the better ...

A little further up the weather got a bit better but then we ran into a dimmoln and then dropped the temperature down to 7 degrees. Brrr ...

We made our way through this call and to thaw our frozen stiff cells, we took in to a hostel in Springfield (S43 20 283 E171 55 835). Here it was warm and good when we entered the dining room and burned it a go fire which we stayed at for a while. We cooked some grub and then we slept well in warm beds goa ...

Kjell O YHA owner in the kitchen before we went on ...

The following day we drove down to and through the Church Crist. We drove out on the coast and out to Lyttelton where we käkad lunch at a typical tavern. Then we drove on dead straight roads all the way to the Rangitata, where we again drove into the mountains towards Mt Cook. But even today, it was so cold in Fairlie (5853 S44 49 989 E170), we decided to stay at a campsite in a small house that had heat ....

Not much to the elements, but it was hot after a while ....

He is standing on a high rock and blues music flowing slowly out of his guitar. He is tall and big and his long, ruddy, krylliga hair is like a halo around his head in the wind. In his face you can see the joy of play and he grimaces and looks very concentrated when he creates his music.

Now he is not on the mountain longer, but he is at a large parking lot. Trucks and cars drive past him and so obscure that I can not see him anymore. I hear the wind as wines from the hills and his blues music still echoing among the peaks ...

Music and dream makaren ...

I open my eyes and through the dirty little window on the Downtown backpackers hotel in Wellington, I can see that the first morning light finds its way between the tall buildings. Such a strange dream. But ... was it a dream? I can still hear the music. But now, the echoes between the houses in Wellington and flows in through the small window for me.

I have to get up and look out the window but could not see anything but the music in it from the bottom somewhere. Kjell dress and go down to see where the music comes from.

There is a guy sitting outside the station in Wellington and played for the first visitors to the station, early in the morning. All that is passing him smile and throw him a dollar or two, some places to which the notes. Then he was forced to stop playing for a moment, toss a few dollars over the notes so that they do not blow away, then he smiles and thanks and continue to play. A lady passing smiles with his whole face and says to Kjell when she passes. -Every time he plays he makes my day, and so do she has a $ 5 bill in his drawer and disappears into the station building.

Good start on a nice day.

We arrived in Wellington in the nick of time yesterday. When we drove around and looked for somewhere to live began to blow strongly. We decided to stay at the Downtown Backpackers hotel located opposite the Bluebrige ferry that goes to the South Island. It blew so strong as when we were inside at the front desk to inquire if they had room, blew my (Karin) motorcycle overturned in the street. When we loaded the last of the bags from the motorcycles began to storm and rain so we had to hurry into the hotel reception.

We got a room and installed ourselves there. We had some dinner at six o'clock and it had stopped raining and we walked a round in our center, in the wind. Everything was closed. Wellington is not so big but it is New Zealand's capital city, but it did not help, turn it down all the shops and cafés and everything else around 17:30. we went back to the hotel and stayed there and watched a little rugby on TV.

Now we leave Wellington

You have to strap the bikes is thoroughly ...

After waking to the amazing music in the morning. We drove a little round and looked at Wellington and then we went down to the ferry terminal and waiting to come on board the ferry.

We had a nice trip between the islands and bays.

Picton from the best place ...

When we added in Picton on South Island, we decided that we would only drive a short distance and then set up camp. We drove along the northern coast and ended up in Havelock, which is grönmusslans capital. (S41 16 831 E173 46 064) Here we stayed at a charming little backpacker hostels.

The owner of the dining room at the hotel in Havelock ...

The port of Havelock ...

South Island Day 2
After having slept well in Havelock, we drove further out towards the west coast. We drove all day, stopping only to shop in Westport.

Beautiful waterside ...
We drove to a campsite a bit south of Westport, where we stayed with some Germans who emigrated here 20 years ago and drove it asks. They had a small restaurant and pub and you could pitch the tent, where for $ 5 per person. In the evening it started to rain and then it rained and the whole night. But we have a great tent so we slept well in our warm bed ...

Rain ...
First, puncture, and then rain. When we drove in the days we had rain the first few hours. It is fortunate that we have proper rain gear now. We bought new rain gear when we were at Brian and Jocelyn at Papamoa and we had these really benefit from today.

Though it rains, it is fine ...

But when we drove through Te Kuiti where Rob lives, who we visited and where we looked at all the cows. Then we were glad for his sake that it rained for they had been so dry so that they hardly had to feed the cows. So we hope that this cut was good.

A and other road works must be reviewed at times ...

Though it was rainy and wet, we had a nice run today with lots of wonderful mil along the incredibly beautiful roads.

Mil after mil ...

We drove south out now. Right now we are just north of Wellington on a camping in Levin (S40 37 822 E175 17 494)

We have been thinking that we are going to Wellington tomorrow and see if we can find to the Australian Embassy. We must organize so that we can stay there for a while and that we do not have the same trouble again that when we would come to NZ. Then, we were forced to buy a return ticket out of the country again at the airport. And so we look up the best and cheapest travel to South Island.

Out on the road again ...

A freshly painted and nice boat ...
Now we have been up with Bo and Vivi in Whangarei and saluted. They stay in a marina with boat and has painted it so it is fresh in the now when they so slow to sail home via Australia. Vivi spoiled us with incredibly good homemade food.

The reason we drove up there was that we needed to service our bikes. Kjell changed oil, filters and pins on his bike and it became my oil change and filter change and brake pads front. I took the opportunity to cook our cross-shirts with the guards in. Velcro and some stitches were needed to be reviewed in them.
We had two nice days and evenings together and we are lucky maybe we can be seen in Australia again.

Newly serviced ...
We are currently in Otorohanga. O We have been showered and will soon go to bed. We have been busy all night, I cooked some food for us and Kjell have cooked our first puncture. Pretty amazing that we have managed for over seven months without punctures, but today it was time. Kjell felt that his motorcycle was a bit wobbly in the rear, so we drove to a gas station and checked the pressure. He pumped it up to almost 3 kg and then drove us to this camp.

Once there, he observed with the help of water and shampoo that there was a small hole in the deck. We have tubeless tires and had before we left Sweden bought a kit to repair plugs, an awl / drill and another thing that looks like a DARNING NEEDLE with a handle that you must insert the plug into the tire with.

Nypumpat ...
The whole procedure was over in five minutes and then we pumped up the tire again with the help of our little Biltema compressor.

Now it seems tight again ...
Kjell checked with shampoo and water again and it seems that it has become tight. We can see in tomorrow ...

Right now we are sitting at YHA Auckland again and today is Anna o Jeppe go home in. Where did these 10 days go?? Kjell O Jeppe is back and leave their bike and we should pack them in some of our things that we decided that we can be without. One of the cameras and one of our stoves can go home now because we almost never use it.

Brian fillets our dinner ...

During these last few days we have been around in the middle of the North Island. We were out fishing with Brian and Jocelyn and had a really nice day at sea. We got a lot of fish and also some of them we ate for dinner at the home of Jocelyn and Brian.
We drove up and camped on Mt Ruapehu is an active volcano. It was at this volcano, which they recorded "Mordor" the lord of the rings movies. That night was probably not more than a few degrees but we had plenty of clothes for us so we did not feel cold even though we camped.

A dormant volcano ....

Tranquil kiwi ...
We have run through several kiwi bird areas but we have not managed to see a wild kiwi bird ever so finally we went to a park where we could see some Kiwis in a large room where the simulated night for them. Kiwi Birds are most active at night so that's why you do not see them so often in the wild.

Kokarusellen ...
We spent one night at the home of Rob and Elaine, in which Emil Jeppe boy was in a whole year and worked. They are dairy farmers and has about 900 dairy cows. It was fun to see how the cows went into something like a big carousel with a capacity of 60 cows to be milked. Then they went for a walk in the carousel while the milk is lost in a large tank. When they were finished they were backing out of milking carousel, and then they could go out to pasture again.

Here we are outside information centert at Mt Egmont ...

The North Island west coast, there is still a volcano, Mt Egmont as we drove around and up on. We were not supposed to run well on all volcanoes and mountains but here we were at, we have visited to where we drove past on our round.