Kepler Track Day Walk to Luxmore Hut
One of New Zealand’s ‘Great Walks’, the Kepler Track makes for a wonderful winter day 28km return walk up to Luxmore Hut to soak in the views over lunch, before…
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Whakaari / White Island
There are so many amazing places in New Zealand, but Whakaari / White Island is pretty close to the top of the list for me. How often do you get to…
Hamilton Gardens
One of the finest gardens in New Zealand, and probably the best thing to do in New Zealand’s fourth largest city, Hamilton Gardens are both varied and beautiful. There are…
Australian rocks!
Quite literally, being home to so many spectacular rock formations. Here are some of the best I’ve seen so far from my travels across this vast continent. The Bungle Bungle…
New Zealand tramps (multi-day walks) ranked
In the past four and a half years since starting with the Routeburn Track, I’ve done 22 multi-day walks (known as tramps in New Zealand), including all of the Great…
Vancouver
Vancouver was a place I expected to love, and thankfully it lived up to expectations, not often the case. With a beautiful natural setting and cool architecture, plus the buzz…
Old St. Paul’s and St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington
Home to one of the most beautiful church interiors in New Zealand, Old St. Paul’s is an icon of the capital. Only taking nine months to build, it opened in…
National Library of New Zealand and He Tohu, Wellington
He Tohu is a wonderfully designed ‘treasure box’ designed to display three of the most important constitutional documents in New Zealand’s history. Inside this beautiful wooden space are the 1835…
Wellington Cable Car and Cable Car Museum
Originally dating from 1902, the cable car offers a short (five minutes) but atmospheric (and less sweaty) trip up the hill from Lambton Quay to the Wellington Botanic Gardens. Other…
Echuca
The longest river in Australia, the 2,500km Murray River forms much of the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria. Never particularly wide or deep it was…