Tiny Tainui

At the Tainui pub

Tainui is a small settlement in the Wairarapa on the road to Castle Point. Goolemaps has missed Tainui, so it you need to hide, that's the place to go. The countryside on the road to Taihui then on to the small seaside settlement of Castle Point is beautiful. It is well worth the trip to non-google-land.

There is a cute pub there with an open fire in the bar, a school and a museum-cum-craft shop that sells all sorts of woollen wares, which I am sure are necessary when the wind blows in from the antarctic.

NZ : The pink dot is Castle Point

Castle Point Lighthouse

Lighthouse day

Today all the lighthouses along the Elbe River were open to the public. I rode down the rather steep hill to the Rissener Lighthouse to have a look.There was still a queue at 5pm (the official closing time) so I didn't wait to see the view from the top. Instead, to gather my strength for the ride back home, I had an 'Alsterwasser' (shandy) at a nearby Kneipe called Cafe Buchfink.
I took one sip of the Alsterwasser and thought what a pity to ruin a good beer with lemonade. Yuck. But I drank it before I pushed my bike back up the hill.

Rissener Lighthouse

This is the Rissener Lighthouse down by the Elbe River. It was a lovely morning, fluffy clouds and the river was silver-blue.
By noon the clouds had turned ominous and there was a cold wind. Perfect though for the sailboats that skimmed across the water.