WhoseGeneration wrote:Horse wrote:I spent almost 3 months last summer (albeit their winter!) driving in New Zealand, where the highest speed limit is 100kph, even on motorways. It's not the end of the world. Nor is NZ
We're in NZ often and that limit is little problem because of the so easy uncongested roads outside of the few major connurbations.
Fun is keeping up to the limit on many of the roads, then, there's always the remaining metalled ones.
Their problem is, as usual, local drivers not using AD techniques and piling into unsighted bends and not considering the possibility of a fully laden logging truck towards that might need to use extra space.
Most of my time was in the northern side of Auckland, North Shore/Takapuna/Albany, but I had a couple of weeks touring around, down as fas Taupo and up to the Bay of Islands. We travelled to the bay via Tane Mahuta and on that road probably saw in one hour no more than a dozen vehicles (but with some first-gear corners!).
Also did the Coromandel Loop on a motorcycle, there are some fairly hairy bends there - with, as you say, the ever present threat of becoming a hood ornament on a logging truck should you get it wrong