Plan B enacted – 28 January 2021

After much research and consideration we came to the conclusion that if we could rent a car and drive to Nelson we could still do the Great Taste Cycle Trail. It would mean, though that we would have to return to Queenstown to pick up the car. I checked with VW to see where they were with the car and was told that at the earliest I would have the car was on Friday. Given that news, we decided to rent a car for a week or so and travel up to Nelson to do our ride. We found that a Toyota RAV4 would enable us to put the bikes in the back of it and the cost was not too prohibitive even though all my instincts were saying from an environmental point of view it was a bad move. I had worked out that as we were able to take the bikes it meant a significant saving on hiring bikes for the The Great Taste Cycle Trail which more than compensated for the additional rental car cost. VW were somewhat relieved that the pressure had come off them so ...