New Plymouth started life as the port servicing the mellow, fertile dairying country surrounding Mount Taranaki.

Ask anyone with salt-draggled hair and the odd piercing where the best surf break in New Zealand is and there’s...

Of all the names for the area that contains our country’s biggest river, I like The Mighty Waikato best.

New Zealand’s longest river charges through the Waikato for 425 kilometres and for 16 of those, it makes its way...

I’m often asked by visitors if they should bother to visit Christchurch. I’m always a bit gobsmacked by this.

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

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...

Hawke’s Bay isn’t on the way to anywhere – it takes a deliberate choice to discover its delights.

In the 1950s, JC Reid wrote of Auckland: 'Its people work hard and play hard.