My bedroom at The Cove with the door opened to the spa pool. Taupo’s always been a place I’ve thought of fondly, mainly for historic reasons: first time table-top dancing, first time playing pool on a round pool table, first time waking up in a room choked with second-hand smoke, and the first time landing…
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My South India Intrepid Adventure – Top 50 Images
Hampi, Karnataka. A few days after returning from India, here’s a little sample of what’s to come with my three New Zealand Herald travel articles and Flight Centre video blogs about my Intrepid adventure in India’s south. India was mayhem. At no point boring, we had incidents involving jumping out of moving trains, rushing friends…
3 Weeks In The South Of India – My Latest Intrepid Adventure
Kerala backwaters. On Wednesday I fly out to India for the very first time, with one night in Singapore on the way. I will have three weeks exploring the south of the country thanks to Intrepid Travel, Flight Centre and the New Zealand Herald. Look out for a trio of articles about the trip in…
Posing On The Central Coast & The Blue Mountains – Australia 2011
A couple of days ago, talk turned with Aussie friends of mine about a 2015 reunion. I met Swanny and Rach (now because of marriage, Swanny and Swanny?) in Vietnam in 2008 and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. A highlight was undoubtedly being asked to MC their wedding in March of 2013. While we…
Waikato – Wai Not? Maungatautari & Hamilton Zoo 2014
An inquisitive chap / meerkat, Hamilton Zoo. This time a week ago I was relaxing in the living room of my B&B in Cambridge, New Zealand after a big day’s driving and walking. Cambridge is an affluent, extremely photogenic little town in New Zealand’s Waikato region. While it was primarily a visit to the hilly forest…
My Top 50 Vancouver Photos, 2010
From the Vancouver Rowing Club with CBD skyscrapers the backdrop. Four years ago today I boarded a 14-hour Auckland-Vancouver flight as part of my year and a half long OE (Kiwi-speak for “overseas experience”). There’s been plenty of travel before and since the 2010-2011 OE, but that period was the only time I’ve had completely…
LA 2014: Top 50 Photos, Including Disneyland, Universal Studios, Hollywood, Downtown, Beverly Hills, The Getty Center And Santa Monica
From behind the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills. Hard to believe it’s already a week since me and my ankles arrived back from LA. Lesson learned, just because as a Kiwi you can save a bit of money flying via Australia instead of direct to California and back doesn’t mean you should. Am I…
The Most Fun Job Ever – My Top 30 Whitsunday Islands Photos 2010-2011
On Friday’s episode of The Two (Pam Corkery / Tim Roxborogh – Newstalk ZB) amidst the usual mix of politics and general topicality, we were talking about the most fun job you’d ever had. A list had just been published by the New Zealand Herald of the most fun jobs in the world – including…
Auckland Top 30 – My Favourite Photos 2012-2014
With me normally posting photos from overseas adventures, I thought it was time to showcase the place I’ve called home for 23 of my 32 years. Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city with a greater metropolitan population of 1.5 million, though the way some Kiwis talk you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a fumbling…
My Top 50 Cambodia Photos From 2008 and 2010 – Why To Be Optimistic About This Country
Angkor Wat at sunrise, 2010. Four years since I was last in Cambodia and six years on from my first visit, I thought it was time to compile my favourite photos from those two adventures. Cambodia gets under your skin. A country with so much tragedy, so much darkness and even today, so much corruption….
Happy Easter With A Guatemalan Jesus Chair!
Happy Easter everyone, from me, my Sheryl Crow T-shirt and a Guatemalan Jesus Chair – Antigua, Guatemala, August 2009. My word!
Cutters Cove At New Zealand’s Mini Gold Coast – Mount Maunganui, Autumn 2014
The beach at Mount Maunganui in front of Cutters Cove. A couple of weeks ago I had a wedding to attend at New Zealand’s mini-version of Australia’s Gold Coast – Mount Maunganui – and as is traditionally the case with me, I thought, “Let’s stay somewhere awesome!” The Mount (as it’s known by Kiwis) is…
