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Marlborough Sounds: unspoilt wilderness
Marlborough must have been an amazing place to visit in the last Ice Age, when a fair chunk of the...
Marlborough Wine Trail
You don’t have to go too far back– a matter of 30 years or so – to find yourself contemplating...
Loved by the locals: Upper Hutt
One of the best things about the Hutt Valley, in general, is that a river runs through it, and quite...
Central Otago: good curling to ye
No one really knows where the peculiar sport of curling originated, but there’s no doubt it was the Scots who...
Auckland Sky Tower
Fun fact: took 28,000 tonnes of concrete to build Auckland’s Sky Tower.
The Forgotten World Highway
Here’s a word to the wise: if your fuel gauge is anywhere below halfway by the time you reach Stratford,...
Queenstown: aboard the TSS Earnslaw
Lake Wakatipu was once home to a number of steam-driven watercraft, in the days before road-building in the Lakes District...
Wainui Beach: sunrises without peer
Because he came from the west, Cook encountered the eastern side of the North Island of New Zealand’s North Island first.
Ulva Island: birdwatchers’ paradise
There’s something disturbingly anatomical about Ulva Island’s name, so it probably comes as something of a relief to learn it...
Waitomo Caves: one of the wonders of the world
Crawling through holes in rock with mere inches of wriggle room on either side, the only illumination cast by your...
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