Day 20 – Rutherford Country and a Few Wrong Turns
In my eyes, one of New Zealand’s most famous exports is Ernest Rutherford , Nobel laureate and 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson . And today, we rode through his backyard. We passed his first school in Foxhill , his birthplace at Brightwater , and rolled along Rutherford Road in Nelson . In the coming days we’ll also head toward Havelock , where his father once ran a flax mill. Not a bad bit of history to ride through.