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Arrowtown: golden history
The Australian plate hit the Pacific plate with a bloody great crunch, shoving a bunch of the earth’s crust upward...
Nelson kaimoana: enjoy the catch of the day
Funnily enough, the original European residents of what came to be known as Nelson (after a certain admiral) didn’t want...
Wellington: coffee, beer and food, food, food
Wellingtonians pride themselves on being connoisseurs of all things gastronomical, fancying themselves the equivalent of the residents of New York’s...
Southern Scenic Route: Queenstown to Dunedin
If you get as far south as Te Anau, it’d be rude not to keep going, don’t you reckon, and...
Wellington Waterfront: where writers' words are cast
Wellington waterfront is the envy not only of most other New Zealand cities, but also of many cities around the world.
Loved by the locals: Lower Hutt
Perhaps in honour of its former status as a floodplain, Lower Hutt is extraordinarily well endowed with swimming pools, with...
Loved by the locals: Kāpiti
Quite apart from the other delights of Queen Elizabeth II Park on the Kāpiti Coast – and there are many...
Loved by the locals: Porirua
Situated in the precinct of the New Zealand Police College, the national Police Museum is an absorbing way to...
Loved by the locals: Wellington Central
Wellington is physically defined by the harbour, and its greatest civic amenity is, without doubt, its waterfront precinct.
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