Travel

I am definitely an Aucklander, through and through, but I love a visit to the nation’s capital to check out what’s new and get a natural blow wave from that wild wind. Here are the top spots I saw, and the best advice I got for a Jafa visiting Wellington…

Hong Kong was your ‘A’ class drug for any shopping addict from high-end sparkly department stores to quirky boutiques. But before I hit the narrow streets of Hong Kong, it was off to the wide squeaky clean streets of Orchard Road in Singapore…

I have always loved science fiction – and I am very happy to put my hand up to being a card-carrying fan of Star Trek and all its various guises. So along with the geeks, gamers and sci-fi fans of Auckland we attended Armageddon…

It’s been going for 14 years, and to be honest with you, I think that was probably around the time when I last went to the Women’s Lifestyle Expo in Wellington. My male photographer thought it would be only about tampons and hair ties…

I go mad at the Bicester Outlet Village in England, where dozens of designer fashion and lifestyle shops nestle on cobble lanes in a new-yet-old-fashioned village of cheap and discounted shopping…

We drive around the coastline of Devon in Southwest England for a Devonshire Tea and find secluded villages full of charm – not to mention lots of tourist tat in the shops – and plenty of natural beauty too…

Ghost Forest is an impacting statement of deforestation from the idea one woman had to transport the roots and trunks of ten trees from the rainforest of Ghana to London, Copenhagen and Oxford…

The 10th annual Brackley Beer Festival saw hundreds of locals converge on the town square to catch up with old mates and watch bands play on a truck stage and sell the festival out of beer…

With a combination of up-to-the-minute designer fashion and olde world charm, my favourite shop in the world is Liberty of London, with its stunning displays of beautiful fashion set in a historic wood-panelled building on Regent Street…