It’s not that long ago that Matakana was just a bend in the road between Warkworth and Leigh.

Nearly a century after the goldminers, and decades after the bushmen who extracted kauri from the rainforest blanketing the rugged...

Travelling north or south along State Highway 1, it's easy to pass through Taihape, Mangaweka, Marton or Bulls unthinkingly, missing...

Would you believe me if I told you there is a place in New Zealand where you can sleep under...

This epic roadie connects the little coves, beaches and bays of the east and the immense dunes, wild coastline and...

How about an epic roadie straight down the guts, as they say, to the land where the languid meandering of...

How about a peaches-and-cream chardonnay in the Bay or a silky, cherry-drenched pinot under the oak tree in Martinborough?

Wellingtonians pride themselves on being connoisseurs of all things gastronomical, fancying themselves the equivalent of the residents of New York’s...

It’s a frosty morning in the deep South and I’m staying at a central B&B in Dunedin.

Funnily enough, the original European residents of what came to be known as Nelson (after a certain admiral) didn’t want...