Road trips are not often leisurely or spontaneous when you have kids on board.

They say there are two kinds of Aucklanders: those who live on the North Shore and those who want to.

The warm and sheltered waters of the Hauraki Gulf have been home to humans for up to a thousand years,...

Where the city runs out, Rodney begins.

The Hokianga (which means ‘the circumstance of returning’) is named in commemoration of the legendary Polynesian navigator, Kupe, who ended...

The local iwi, Ngāti Whātua, were the first to scope Takapuna, Takarunga and Takaroro – the three volcanic cones at...

‘Dunedin’ is an ancient name for Edinburgh and the resemblance doesn’t stop at the names.

When you consider how hard it must have been to make the transition from their tropical homeland to the decidedly...

The joys of Waitomo will begin to appear when you stop just out of the township.

As the probable landing place of the first waka ever to visit New Zealand, Marlborough is the home of the...