‘Poverty Bay’ is a serious misnomer for this place of plenty, I thought, as I lugged my trug of technicolour...

Gisborne intrigues me. It’s a mix of tradition, culture and nature.

Christchurch is gorgeous. Its urbane, English-inflected rivers and stone buildings style landscape genteelly masks a southern spirit that has seen...

Centuries ago this alpine pass was traversed by Māori in search of pounamu and moa.

Matakana is an easy escape from Auckland city – a short run up the motorway, through the tunnel, east at Warkworth.

Known as Roto-Vegas for good reason, the Rotorua tourist trail is bright, exciting and loaded with thrills.

There is an adventure capital in New Zealand with a fabulous food and wine scene. It is not Queenstown.

Rotorua announces itself to the nose at quite a distance.