So your father sends through some BBC focus magazines for you to read, and while you are browsing through the magazine you find that the steepest street in the world happens to be in New Zealand and more precisely the town of Dunedin right on the south eastern tip of the South Island.
I was not planning to get this far down the South Island but as its there and I am unlikely ever to go back cycling in New Zealand I think I am going to have to re plan my route on the island.