On Yer Bike Wine Tour Ep 27
Fabulous bike ride through the beautiful Hawkes Bay wine region with 'On Yer Bike'. Highly recommended tour. We visited 5 vineyards on the day. Beautiful and unique wine on tasting as well as a scrumptious lunch platter at 'The Abbey'.
Check out the Hawkes Bay Farmers Market as well at
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Vivacity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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On My Way Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Marlborough Rowing Champs 2012 D2R14
The Marlborough Rowing Championships this weekend offer a chance to shake off the racing cobwebs.
More than 300 rowers will gather at race headquarters, the Blenheim Rowing Club on the Lower Wairau River.
Wairau, Picton, Blenheim and the Central RPC squad, based at Wairau, have all entered crews for the two-day regatta along with a healthy contingent from Christchurch secondary schools and the Nelson Rowing Club.
Numbers have swelled considerably this season on the back of New Zealand's Olympic Games success, Blenheim and Wairau in particular enjoying significant jumps in rowing numbers.
Blenheim coach Bill Campbell has 48 rowers and 160 boat seats being filled. He's delighted with the enthusiasm and calibre of his new charges.
Blenheim also has an adult novice crew including a women's eight.
Campbell's marquee crew is the under-18 coxed four. This year's crew comprises Troy Gilmore, Tom Wilson, Mitch Avery, Connor Irving and coxswain Trent Burbidge.
Campbell is looking forward to seeing his charges in action.
At this stage of the season they are all performing pretty well, he said.
I'm quite excited about the youngest group, the best I've seen coming through in the last five years. Most of our club are novices this season.
I want to see some good performances, hopefully against good opposition. Basically a bit of early season motivation and the first introduction into regatta rowing for a lot of them.
While novices will form the majority of crews over the weekend, the Central RPC have a couple of headline acts racing including three-time world lightweight single scull champion Duncan Grant as he begins his quest for a New Zealand trial.
Last season's New Zealand elite squad member Ian Seymour is back, plus there are New Zealand under-23 world championship reps Tufe Sele, Joseph Trappitt and Jamie Hunter. Add in world junior fours champion Tom Murray and his squad mate Corey McCaffrey and that should make for some high quality performances.
Central also have crews rowing at the Jury Cup regatta in Whanganui, included among them Olympian Robbie Manson and his brother Karl.
Picton's Olympic champion, Joseph Sullivan, has his first competitive row since the London triumph, contesting the Billy Webb 5km race on the Wanganui on Sunday against fellow Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale.
Wairau head coach Dave Williamson's biggest challenge so far is coping with a squad which has doubled in size from last season, rising from 28 to 56, 20 of them novices.
But he's very pleased with the calibre of the athletes.
It's our biggest squad ever, he said.
This weekend will be a bit of fun. The novices will learn a lot from their first regatta. The Marlborough champs are traditionally a shakedown before the big stuff in January.
Wairau women's crews to watch include the under-16 coxed four of T J Power, Jess Donald, Nadja Hyson, Portia Barcello and coxswain Lauren Honeybone and the under-15 double scull combination of Ruby McManaway and Molly Somerville.
Williamson has a very sharp coaching group with him, comprising former national selector Steve Donaldson in charge of the boys, Luke van Velthooven, Mike McManaway, Dave Hocquard and Kaye Surgenor, plus Williamson, mentoring the girls'
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Picton ferry then FRIED CHICKEN & HALLOUMI BURGER!!|BEST THERMAL HOT SPRINGS - Wairake terraces
Tom and Yen are travelling around New Zealand on the cheap by relocating a rental campervan. Today is day 7!
Today we wake up in Picton the entrance (or in our case the exit) of the South Island. After hanging around for a little while we jump on the Interislander ferry to Wellington for a lighting quick trip to buy a deep fried chicken and haloumi burger from Lucky in Te Aro!
Then it’s off to Wairakei Terraces just north of Taupo for a relaxing natural thermal spa session before heading home to Auckland.
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Wine Time™ with WineGuyMike™ on ABC Fox Montana
This week on Wine Time with WineGuyMike on ABC Fox Montana I discuss the attributes of oaked and unoaked chardonnay. I'm also sharing my wine blog review and two great recipes to pair with the 2010 Balletto Vineyards and Winery Teresa's Unoaked Chardonnay and the Mt. Eden Vineyards 2009 Edna Valley Chardonnay Taste in good health wine friends!
Trench warfare | Wikipedia audio article
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Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. It has become a byword for stalemate, attrition, sieges, and futility in conflict.Trench warfare occurred when a revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility, resulting in a grueling form of warfare in which the defender held the advantage. On the Western Front in 1914–1918, both sides constructed elaborate trench, underground, and dugout systems opposing each other along a front, protected from assault by barbed wire, mines, camouflaged trapping pits, and other obstacles. The area between opposing trench lines (known as no man's land) was fully exposed to artillery fire from both sides. Attacks, even if successful, often sustained severe casualties.
With the development of armoured warfare, emphasis on trench warfare has declined but still occurs wherever battle-lines become static.