Travel

Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me.  When I left my …

The New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …

Women, so I’ve read (and seem to observe), are significantly more likely to take ‘selfies’ than men. It doesn’t seem to matter …

In five years or so  in and out of Mongolia, I’ve criss-crossed thousands of kilometres by 4WD Landcruiser. But I’ve only taken …

The most famous ‘little log cabin in the woods’ is probably the one in which Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky. It …

It happens so often. I chance across a place in a city – then fruitlessly search high and low for it again. …

I noticed Miss Tasha when it opened. But for quite a while I kept walking past – I wasn’t sure what it …

Boring weekends, I’d sometimes head around the block to a little bakery in Danfeng St. I’d pick up a little selection of …

Early on a cool Sunday morning I sipped my latte outside Relishes Cafe, Wanaka, and thought the immediate view could be better. …

When Emperor Constantine woke up on May 28, 1453, it would have been to the depressing thought that it was likely his last …