German couple on a RTW trip with two 20 years old Hondas arriving in Auckland soon...

**Bea & Helle** · 3rd December 2013, 15:32

G´day to all NZ bikers!

We are Bea and Helle, a young couple from Upper Bavaria in Germany and we are probably doing the adventure of our lifetime, a round the world trip with our two more than twenty years old Honda Transalps!

We started in our home town Burghausen at the 18th of June 2011, so we are “On the Road” now since more than 2 years now.
Since then we crossed 14 countries and covered over 60.000 kilometers on our trusted bikes.
We visited the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and from Vladivostok in the far east of Siberia we shipped our bikes to Thailand. From there we did a loop trough Cambodia, Laos and Thailand before we went down to Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and finally East Timor from where we shipped to Australia.

At the moment we are still in Australia – yes, it´s a huge country and it took us over a year to travel around and we also worked a little bit to increase our travel funds again.

So far we really had a great time, met some unbelievable helpful and friendly people, rode our bikes trough amazing landscapes and had some real adventures!

On our blog www.timetoride.de and our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-t...15955945143396 you can find more information about us, our bikes, about our trip preparations and some travel reports about the countries we visited so far. We also posted lots of pictures and videos about our travel. So if you are interested, we would be very happy if you visit our blog and Facebook page!

But now the time has come to say goodbye Australia, hello New Zealand!

We haven´t been in NZ before but we heard a lot of great stories about the fantastic bike ride possibilities so we are really curious about it!

We have 3 month time to travel around and we are very interested in meeting local bikers, having good conversations, of course drinking the one or another beer and spending a great time whilst exploring NZ on our bikes!

So if some of you might have some helpful tips for us what to see, where to go, where to stay and so on... that would be great!

When we arrive in Auckland around Christmas we have to stay there for around one week because we have to wait for the bikes to arrive only at the 5th of January with a RoRo ship from Brisbane, so if someone can recommend a cheap place to stay, that would be great!

We hope to hear from you and looking forward to see some of you guys on the road!

Cheers from the bloody hot Outback of Australia
Bea & Helle

Contact:
Email: info@timetoride.de

**kevfromcoro** · 3rd December 2013, 17:15

Where in ozz are you at the moment?
Iam a kiwi living in QLD

**Grashopper** · 3rd December 2013, 19:55

Sounds amazing what you guys are doing.

: Sent you an email

**Tazz** · 4th December 2013, 15:07

Give us a yell when you shoot through Picton. Always keen to head down the sounds, beer sounds good too. Moa is one of the local drops worth sampling here.

**Bald Eagle** · 4th December 2013, 15:40

Lets us know when you are coming through Wellington, big shed for parking bikes, couches for sleeping and home made alcohol before catching an early ferry to the sourh.

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**Theantidote** · 10th December 2013, 09:24

we're in south auckland at the end of the southern motorway with plenty of room for tents, bikes a hot shower etc...you're more than welcome to stop off at ours before heading out...
son and i are also planning on a trip over to the coromandel on about the 6th...then down the east coast for a bit before heading west and home...lots of photo opportunities and plenty of good roads...
sent you an email...let us know when you're in town...cheers
ride safe

**Arrowolf** · 13th December 2013, 21:07

Hi German riders, if you find the way to Arrowtown/south island, come to Bonjour restaurant. Saturday or sunday, ask for wolfgang and we have a coffee and a chat.

**Bea & Helle** · 24th December 2013, 14:41

@Ozzy: we´re in Brisbane right now. We just dropped our bikes off at the port of Brisbane on Friday. We ourselves will fly to Auckland in 5 days.

@all: Thank you very much for all your replies and kind offers! We´ll let you know when we are close to your area!

Cheers, still from (too hot) Brisabne
Bea & Helle

**Icemaestro** · 24th December 2013, 16:45

we are in west auckland, Glen Eden if you need a place to stay - have a spare room with a king bed and space for bikes :-)

**blue rider** · 24th December 2013, 19:14

Hi Bea und Helle,

Ich habe mich auf euren facebook thread gemelded. Das angebot zur uebernachtung and aufenthalt steht.

Meldet euch ueber FB oder private Message hier.

cheers
Sabine

**Howie** · 24th December 2013, 20:47

Hi, A couple of good websites for interesting back roads are:

http://www.adventureguide.co.nz/index.php Run by ADVGD on this Forum. (mainly south island tracks)

http://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/ Run by Eddieb on this forum. Newer site but has some interesting North island routes on it.

for camping in remote places look up http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-rec...tes-by-region/

One of my Favourite campsites is: http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-rec...u-hot-springs/ with a nice free hot pool to soak in. it is about 1 1/4 hours out of napier and not on a through road.

Only other thing I can think of is that the Bannockburn Bike week is on in the south island between 1st-7th Feb and could be worth looking into if your planning on being that far south by then. http://www.bikeweeknz.com/

**Bea & Helle** · 1st January 2014, 14:43

Hi again!

And thank you very much for all your replies and kind offers!
That´s great!

We just arrived in Auckland three days ago and staying with a biker we´ve got in contact with through some friends of us.

Yesterday we celebrated New Years Eve in a very Kiwi-style Pub

and had lots of fun and lots of beers!

When we´re coming closer to your areas we´ll give you a yell!

Until then, Cheers & safe riding!
Bea & Helle