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Rarotonga and Aitutaki Recommendations and Travel Tips 2019
Read more: Rarotonga and Aitutaki Recommendations and Travel Tips 2019I’ve always wanted to go. I keep seeing everybody else’s travel photos and get Insta FOMO. Sitting by my heater in a bikini sipping a cuppa tea and pretending it was a pina colada wasn’t really cutting it any longer so I had my first ever trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki in March this year…
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My Picks and Tips – Queenstown Holiday With Kids
Read more: My Picks and Tips – Queenstown Holiday With KidsMy top picks and tips for a family holiday in Queenstown with your family with kids in tow, with cheap and fun activities – including a $50 Airbnb credit voucher – and what we got up to that I’d personally recommend. Glenorchy Animal Experiences A sheep almost CLIMBING THE FENCE trying to get our animal feed.…
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I stay at Auckland’s hottest new hotel – Naumi Auckland
Read more: I stay at Auckland’s hottest new hotel – Naumi AucklandThe highlight of the week had to be being invited to stay at Auckland’s hottest new hotel – Naumi Auckland, a five-star boutique hotel with creativity, wit, luxury and location, convenient to Auckland Airport. The stunning refit opening recently as an incredible project by the talented Auckland interior design duo of Toni Brandso and Liv Patience…
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I’m off to Australian Fashion Week: what I’m taking
Read more: I’m off to Australian Fashion Week: what I’m takingI’m normally quite the planner. I love lists. I even make numbered lists – which you don’t have to tick off in order, but bonus points if you do. So it is with great excitement that I’m planning a trip for my very first time, to Australian Fashion Week 2018, and making a list. Luckily…
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My trip aboard Celebrity Cruise liner Celebrity Solstice in Auckland
Read more: My trip aboard Celebrity Cruise liner Celebrity Solstice in AucklandI am starting the school holidays off well, with a trip aboard Celebrity Cruise liner Celebrity Solstice for facials and massages while the luxury liner is in Auckland on Sunday. I met the other media and our hosts for the day, Pauline and Keely of Dock Street Group, on Princes Wharf and we boarded with…
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Travel: My top 5 Things To Do in the Coromandel with kids
Read more: Travel: My top 5 Things To Do in the Coromandel with kidsIf you are considering travelling to the Coromandel peninsula in New Zealand – especially with children in tow- I have a few recommendations of things I personally enjoyed from taking my own family there this month, January 2018. Here are my top five things to do in the Coromandel with kids, with pricing, as I…
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Art and wine meet at Brancott Estate
Read more: Art and wine meet at Brancott EstateI had a lovely day being flown to the South Island for a helicopter tour, and wine tasting and 3 course lunch. Glass is definitely half full. Art amongst the vines I headed down to Marlborough to Brancott Vineyard on October 18 for the launch of New York designer Dror Benshetrit’s 8m high art installation Under/standing…
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The Week On Thread Episode 85
Read more: The Week On Thread Episode 85In The Week On Thread Episode 85, this fifteenth column of 2017, I showcase some pics of what I’ve been doing for the last week in early to mid July around here, plus a birthday trip to Fiji with my family, and my 80s theme birthday party with girlfriends back in Auckland. It’s mostly a collection…
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De-light-ful Sydney: I went to Vivid Sydney and loved it
Read more: De-light-ful Sydney: I went to Vivid Sydney and loved itI went to Vivid Sydney, and, if you excuse the pun, found it completely de-light-ful. It’s been my dream to go to Vivid Sydney, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, so when I was offered the opportunity to see it with Destination NSW I leapt at the chance. The annual festival is held from…
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Travel: Highlights of Queenstown in Autumn 2017
Read more: Travel: Highlights of Queenstown in Autumn 2017In this latest travel post, I share my travel diary in pictures, of highlights of our trip to Queenstown in Autumn 2017. We travelled with young children, and so this might be useful for ideas and tips for other families who are planning to travel to Queenstown, Arrowtown and Lake Hayes in the South Island…