Chris Martin & Barry Gibb, Glastonbury 2016. Here’s the video footage of Bee Gees legend Barry Gibb onstage with Coldplay at Glastonbury just a few hours ago. There had been rumours Barry would be performing, but these had been quashed in the last couple of weeks. With Barry reportedly pulling out due to the ill-health…
Whatever Happened To The Bee Gees In The 80s?
Bee Gees ESP album cover, 1987 For people in the Southern Hemisphere, last night was the longest night of the year. Never afraid of a slightly tenuous link if it means I can talk about the Bee Gees, I couldn’t resist sharing this beautiful song of the same name, The Longest Night. Where I live…
RIP Muhammad Ali – How Joe Frazier Finally Forgave Him
Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier For many years of the previous century, it is highly likely there was no more famous person on earth than Muhammad Ali. With his death today at the age 74 due to respiratory problems and decades of suffering from Parkinson’s, I wanted to reprint this piece from 2011. As a…
Why Waitomo’s About So Much More Than Glow Worms – Let’s Travel Article + My Top 50 Waitomo Photos
The ravine near the Mangapohue land-bridge. In the April-May issue of Let’s Travel (New Zealand’s #1 travel magazine) is my feature on Waitomo in the central North Island. Visit letstravelmag.com to subscribe and find out about all the things to do here beyond the seeing the glow worms that first established Waitomo as a tourist…
My NZ Herald Room Check Article: Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Rural Victoria
Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria* Almost a year ago I stayed in a town in rural Victoria so small that the hotel is essentially the entire town. With only 461 people calling Dunkeld home, a substantial chunk of that number have some connection to the historic Royal Mail Hotel. If you click here you can…
Malaysia’s Tioman Island – My Herald On Sunday Article + My Top 50 Tioman Photos
A couple of weeks ago the Herald On Sunday published my feature article on Tioman Island in Malaysia. In case you missed it, here’s the link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11639305 In the article you’ll hopefully get a sense of why I love this island so much and keep finding myself going back. There’s also an incident involving monkeys,…
Dog-Sled Riding & Other Adventures – My Top 40 Central Oregon Photos
Dog-sled riding on the snowy slopes of a volcano, hiking through a rock-climbers Mecca, driving a brand new Chevy Impala through a snow storm, visiting the American city sometimes referred to as “Beer Disneyland” – all these adventures plus a few more are in my trio of Oregon articles in next month’s Let’s Travel…
Bee Gees Way Favourite Photos – Redcliffe, Queensland 2016
Here are my favourite photos from Bee Gees Way in Redcliffe, about 30-minutes drive north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. I was there on Saturday night as part of travel writing trip for the New Zealand Herald, promoting tourism to southern Queensland and in particular, “Queensland Big Sky Country” self-drive adventures. You can see more…
Newstalk ZB’s ‘The Two’ Soar To Their Highest Ever Ratings
The first lot of New Zealand radio ratings for 2016 were released a few days ago and we are thrilled and very thankful to say that Newtalk ZB’s The Two is not only still the nation’s number one show on a Sunday evening, but has increased its audience share. There’s a bit of an in-joke…
Oregon Top 50 Photos: Exploring America’s Hippest City + 1 Of Its Greatest Ski Resorts
Skiing at Timberline, Mt Hood, Oregon. Driving in falling snow, dog-sled riding, skiing the mountain with longest season in all of North America, staying in the hotel made famous by the film The Shining and hiking a valley almost as breathtaking as the Grand Canyon, last month’s Oregon road trip for Let’s Travel magazine was…
1 Year On From The Execution Of The Bali 9 Ringleaders – Amazing Grace & Their Final Redemptive Song
The pastor and the painter, Bali Nine ringleaders Chan and Sukumaran. Written April 29th, 2015 – Reprinted again today for the first anniversary. Several times over the past few days I had listeners challenge me as to why I don’t believe in the death penalty. I fumbled my way more than I wished through explaining…
First Time In Hawaii! My Top 50 Oahu Photos
Waikiki Beach. A couple of weeks ago I jetted into Hawaii for a quick trip enroute to Oregon. Having never been to Hawaii and with three nights on the island of Oahu, I tried to pack in as much as I could. Keep an eye out for an upcoming issue of New Zealand’s #1 travel…
