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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...
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Street food and markets: around the world in New Zealand
It’s a frosty morning in the deep South and I’m staying at a central B&B in Dunedin.
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...
The Great Alpine Highway: Christchurch to Greymouth
This is a transcendent, transformational traverse whether travelled by train or by road.
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...
Inland Scenic Route 72: Christchurch loop
Round trips are immensely satisfying. There’s a pleasing symmetry in ending up back where you started, a closing of the...
Classic New Zealand Wine Trail: Napier to Blenheim
How about a peaches-and-cream chardonnay in the Bay or a silky, cherry-drenched pinot under the oak tree in Martinborough?
Thermal Explorer Highway: Auckland to Napier
How about an epic roadie straight down the guts, as they say, to the land where the languid meandering of...
Twin Coast Discovery Highway: Auckland to Cape Rēinga
This epic roadie connects the little coves, beaches and bays of the east and the immense dunes, wild coastline and...
Our isolated marine reserves
New Zealand has four marine reserves in the Subantarctic Islands, one in the Kermadecs and one at Volkner Rocks in...
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