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The weather can play such an integral part to how much we enjoy a destination. If your first glimpse at a new city is with the sun bouncing light off buildings, and sparkling reflections in the water, you are bound to think that the city is fabulous. Sunshine is just an automatic mood enhancer. This…
Discover the best of Mt Maunganui – not to miss activities, and the best cafes, restaurants and bars for delicious food and drinks. Mount Maunganui has always been an extremely popular beach town for kiwis’ summer holidays. But its popularity and exposure worldwide has grown since it was added as a destination and stop for…
Isn’t getting ‘personal’ mail always so exciting?! Let me tell you, it’s even more exciting when you’ve been anticipating its arrival and it’s finally here!! These are the beautiful pages from our Canada trip. You can view them in full by clicking here, there’s an arrow on the first image so you can scroll through them…
Hamilton Gardens is a fabulous day trip from Auckland, that will surprise, inspire and delight you. If you were to mention to an Aucklander that you were heading to Hamilton as a tourist, they’d probably give you a bit of a sideways glance followed by a little giggle under their breath. It’s not that Hamilton…
The Trail of 10 Falls lives up to its name, and is one of Portland’s best day hikes, especially if you’re chasing waterfalls! Oregon, like it’s neighbor Washington, is blessed with an abundance of nature, that you can explore on any one of its many trails. This makes it even more difficult to choose which…
Are you in, or visiting Washington State? Lucky you! Washington is blessed with charming towns. I had to visit a lot to come up with this shortlist of my Top 5 Most Charming Small Towns in Washington. What’s even better, is that these towns are all do-able as a day trip from Seattle. So if…
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Indulge your chocoholic self on the Theo Chocolate Factory tour … As a fully fledged, and certified chocoholic, there could be no better tourist activity for me than a chocolate factory tour. Well actually, only because it did say you’d be consuming lots of chocolate! I mean, if we’re going to be honest – that…
So at the beginning of April we rode the Otago Central Rail Trail from Clyde to Middlemarch – 150kms through awe inspiring country. Before I share my story, here’s a little history on the trail. History of the Central Otago Rail Trail Goldrush Way back in 1861, gold was discovered in Central Otago. The area…
Sculptureum – an Auckland day trip that will impress you on an ‘international scale’. That’s a statement you could easily make about scenery in NZ, but perhaps not so before about a sculpture park. Set in the beautiful countryside of Matakana, the sculpture park Sculptureum is about an hours drive north from Auckland city. Matakana…
