If you’re a traveller who doesn’t fancy the self-catering option, preferring instead to let the experts do the cooking – you’ll love Auckland! New Zealand’s biggest city is blessed with a huge variety of fabulous restaurants, from laid-back cafés to fine dining, scattered across the city. You’ll find rich concentrations of excellent eateries in a [...]
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Do you like good coffee? Do you like fantastic food? What if I said you could have both of these and the feel-good factor that comes from eating organic vegetarian fare? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a full-time vegetarian, but I happily forgo bacon and steak whenever I visit my favourite little café at [...]
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Paihia is hot, hot, hot! Literally. Here in the Bay of Islands it is bikini weather, quite frankly, and I’m a little envious of the girls toting their beach bags and flip-flopping in their jandals down the footpath, heading for the sands of Te Ti Beach (just a quick walk around the headland from Paihia [...]
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This morning I headed north to Orewa, crossing the Auckland Harbour Bridge as the sun hauled itself up in the east and cast an apricot light over the boats moored off Devonport. By the time I’d driven the length of Auckland’s Northern Motorway the tint had burnt off, leaving behind a hot clear day – [...]
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