My partner and I didn’t know what to expect. I mean, of course we’d seen photos of them (which always look amazing) but seeing them for yourself paints a different picture all together. Despite the bush fires in Lorne being blown not far from us it was a pretty chilly summers day and the wind … Continue reading Sea giants

Well, I’m officially on holidays until January 5 and it feels like I’ve been living in Auckland for way longer than six months. I moved here on July 19, 2015, just one day before I started work as a full-time journalist at Fairfax Media. In my short time here so far, I have learnt that this … Continue reading The City of Sails

The sunrise while hiking up Mt Maunganui made the early start to the weekend worthwhile. It was my first weekend exploring New Zealand’s beautiful landscape in the Bay of Plenty, a peninsula north of Tauranga. The drive to “The Mount” with my partner was almost three hours from Auckland and took us through karangahake gorge, a sharply … Continue reading A hike to remember