cycling to north cape

Assembled my bike and took off around midday for a 32 km trip to the North Cape visitor centre.
This is situated at 71 o 10 o 21 o degrees which does not mean a lot to me but it further north than the top of Alaska which I do understand. I left not too heavily dressed but with a lot of extra clothing in the bags and boy did I need them , again that icy wind but the first climb kept me warm. Then as entered this empty plateau it started raining and the wind picked up and my fingers froze up in minutes. I put on my neoprene overshoes, raincoat, gloves and still I froze, then all of a sudden it started clearing and as I entered the north cape the sun came out. As a cyclist they give you a discount, it is only $35 to see the sea !
It actually looked a lot like the area between Port waikato and Kawhia with the difference being that farmers knocked down all the trees there as here there were never any to begin with.
Met a nice german guy who took just 18 days to cycle from Berlin to here, a mere 3400 km, that should give me confidence but it had the opposite result, not sure why.
the video that follows is shaky, I am not in rehab just learning how to handle this little thing.