Katherine Kearsley
Born a Kiwi but raised as a Brit, Katherine sure knows how to put ‘intrepid’ into travel. She’s lost count of the number of countries she’s travelled to, but she vividly remembers being thrown into a Korean jail for the day (a bottle of whiskey secured her release), breaking her leg doing the luge in Rotorua, and having a close encounter with a conger eel named Boris. We can’t wait to see what adventure she gets up to next.Author Results
A Heliflight adventure over Franz Josef Glacier
Friday, February 26th, 2010When visiting Fox Glacier recently, I decided that I wanted to get a bird’s eye view of the glacier and booked a helicopter scenic flight with Fox and Franz Josef Heliservice.
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Jade Carving at Bonz ‘n Stonz in Hokitika
Friday, February 26th, 2010I have always wanted to try my hand at either bone or jade carving, and was excited to be able to do it with Bonz ‘n Stonz whilst in Hokitika.
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Billy Connolly
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Friday night 13 February saw Billy Connolly on stage at Christchurch’s Westpac Arena. I have for a long time now been a huge fan and Billy did not disappoint. The mix of completely un-PC comments, stories from long ago and jokes was perfect and had me laughing so hard that my sides still hurt three [...]
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Big Night Out
Monday, February 16th, 2009Five nights a week in Queenstown, the boys and girls of the Big Night Out will take you on a bar crawl around six of Queenstown’s liveliest bars. Mix into this six free drinks, $5 jagerbombs, 2-4-1 drinks, cheap food, a raffle with big prizes to be won, some very friendly staff and about 40 [...]
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A.R.E.A 9
Monday, February 9th, 2009I love music festivals. To look at me you wouldn’t think so, the main reason being that I’m not a camping girl – I just don’t do it. The idea of waking up in a tiny tent that has become your own personal oven with the sunrise is not appealing in the slightest. Yet there [...]
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Taieri Gorge Railway – quite an experience!
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008For some time now, people have been recommending the Taieri Gorge Railway to me, so when I found out I was heading down to Dunedin in Otago for the week on business, I decided to go down a day early and try it out.
We were booked in to depart on Sunday afternoon at 12:30pm on [...]
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