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Akaroa Harbour: Drama, Grace & Glory

Cast your eye over a New Zealand map and Banks Peninsula is a curious geographic feature, a big bulbous blob

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Holiday breeze in Timaru

Pocket-sized Timaru lives and breathes the seaside. Salt spray seasons the air in this South Canterbury city, with an unmistakeable

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Big city culture this summer

As we gear up to the turn the page on the write-off year of 2020, here’s a round-up of some

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Off the grid in South Australia

With a Tasman-bubble on the horizon, Kiwis are dreaming about the destinations they will visit and the experiences they will

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Nature’s balm in Hanmer Springs

Nature is an unbeatable balm to reinvigorate your spirits and sooth the soul.  Few places in New Zealand exemplify that

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Toasting the Hurunui Heartland

Wedged between Kaikoura and the Waimakariri like a jigsaw puzzle piece, the Hurunui District embodies the best of the New

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Into the Mist of Te Urewera

Remote, rugged, immense and wreathed in mist and mysticism, Te Urewera is the home of the  Tūhoe people. Revered for

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Tripping the delights of Eastern Bay of Plenty

After gorging on the waterside temptations of Tauranga, I pointed the car south and east to stake out some of

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Temptations galore in Tauranga

Green-eyed pangs of envy wash over me whenever I’m watching televised cricket from Tauranga’s Bay Oval. The camera pans across

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Japan’s Seto Inland Sea and it’s magnificent encounters
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Japan’s Seto Inland Sea and it’s magnificent encounters

Seto Inland Sea of Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture is not a top item that you’d see on a Japanese Itinerary at

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Discovering paradise in the Seychelles
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Discovering paradise in the Seychelles

Whether the Garden of Eden was located here or not, there is no denying the fact that the Seychelles are

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Galapagos wildlife encounters
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Galapagos wildlife encounters

Nicholas Gill sails across Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands in search of some unique wildlife. I was in Puerto Rico not long

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