More Traveller Stories

Art Deco Napier
Summer Issue: November 2008
Napier is purported to be the Art Deco capital of the world...

Otago Aquarium
Summer Issue: November 2008
The New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Aquarium in Dunedin is home to...

Burt Munro Challenge, Southland
Summer Issue: November 2008
The Burt Munro Challenge has only been running for a few years, but already it smells like a deeply engrained Kiwi ritual...

Thyme Festival, Alexandra
Summer Issue: November 2008
The sharp scent caught me off guard, and my eyes watered. Scents are amazin memory triggers...

Mount Ollivier, Mackenzie Country
Summer Issue: November 2008
In 1939, a 19-year-old Ed Hillary climbed what he described as 'his first real mountain...'

Feilding Farmers Market
Spring Issue: August 2008
It may be a grey day, but John the plant man is doing his best to brighten things up. His potted hyacinths grow like gems...

Whitebaiting in Haast
Spring Issue: August 2008
On a riverbank in Haast, a man in green chest waders looked up from above his net, roused by my greeting. "Any good?" I asked him. He took his time to answer.

Gisborne's History
Spring Issue: August 2008
Five minutes in the car with Tipuna Tours' Anne McGuire tells me this day is not going to be long enough. Her knowledge of Gisborne's history is phenomenal...

The Taieri Train
Spring Issue: August 2008
Dunedin's tailored stone railway station is the perfect gateway to a train ride through Taieri Gorge and its rugged rocks.

Gore Art Gallery
Winter Issue: June 2008
There are five Guggenheim museums worldwide. In New Zealand we have the Goreggenheim...

Lyttleton, Canterbury
Winter Issue: June 2008
Port Lyttelton is undergoing a sea change with café conversions, a main street makeover and a growing number of performance venues and award-winning restaurants.

Sailing the Bay of Islands
Winter Issue: June 2008
We stand on Opua wharf in the Bay of Islands, as the bustle of preparation carries on around us. Purposeful people check lists, and boxes of stores are stowed on board.

Taupo Escape
Winter Issue: June 2008
I've been thinking my weekends are on 'Repeat' - that I've been doing the same things, over and over again. So I've decided to take a break and go to Taupo.

Taupo Skydiving
Winter Issue: June 2008
I know I want Freddy as soon as I spot him. He has the confident swagger of a man crazy enough to jump out of planes for a living - the perfect person to put my trust in.


International Travel:

Sweet and Sour Singapore
Autumn Issue: March 2009
We enjoy a sensory bombardment in the heady cultural mix of Singapore's street markets...

Ludlow Castle, England
Autumn Issue: March 2009
Tourist apartments are built into the walls of the 1000 year old Ludlow Castle...

Amiens, France
Autumn Issue: March 2009
The river Somme once flowed through some dark history in Northern France...

Greyhound Bus, USA
Summer Issue: November 2008
Route 66 on the Greyhound bus begins in New York City...

Victoria, Australia
Spring Issue: August 2008
"If you come across road-kill when you're driving, please, stop and drag the carcass off to the side, so native raptors don't get hit when they come to feed."

Indian Retreat
Spring Issue: August 2008
Fact and fiction have a strange way of overlaying each other. In the Taj Garden Retreat, the story created by Arundhati Roy, in the God of Small Things, seems utterly real.

Exploring Paris
Spring Issue: August 2008
"Going to Paris? Take good walking shoes." I ignored this advice. I wasn't about to walk around the city of fashion in ugly shoes! I would wear my stylish, low-heeled boots.

Sapporo, Japan
Winter Issue: June 2008
Snowflakes were falling thick and silent on the night I arrived in Hokkaido with fellow New Zealand snow sculptors Minhal al Halibi and Luke Calder.

Venice In Winter
Winter Issue: June 2008
When the sirens woke me up at 5.30 in the morning, it felt like the Battle of Britain - but I was in Venice rather than London and it was the 21st century rather than 1940.