travel
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Book Review: Real – Living a balanced life by Victoria Alexander
Read more: Book Review: Real – Living a balanced life by Victoria AlexanderThere’s such a huge trend to be ‘real’ these days; away from the phoniness of and keeping up with the Joneses or social media and conspicuous consumption and fast fashion, back to a more genuine time of authenticity. I’m loving this book,’Real – Living a balanced life’ by Victoria Alexander with its stunning images of…
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Top of the world in Rotorua
Read more: Top of the world in RotoruaDespite being only three and a half hours south of Auckland, a trip to Rotorua is something of the level of an “overseas holiday” for us, in terms of the excitement that the children hold. We went there last year closer to springtime and this year went in mid-June in the depths of New Zealand…
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Historic Kyoto – highlights in photos
Read more: Historic Kyoto – highlights in photos“Nippon, here we come!” read my itinerary for ten days in Japan from New Zealand life in May last month. I arrived at Kansai Airport on Air New Zealand – they used to fly direct from Auckland to Osaka but stopped doing that – so we had to change to another airline which was lengthy…
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Highlights of Hokkaido in pictures – May 2015
Read more: Highlights of Hokkaido in pictures – May 2015I headed over to Japan earlier this month for ten days from New Zealand and I thought readers might like to take a peek at some of my highlights in photos. In this post, see my top picks from Hokkaido in May 2015. We flew from Osaka’s Kansai airport to Shinchitose airport in Sapporo, where…
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Highlights around Tokyo in pictures
Read more: Highlights around Tokyo in picturesSo in May of this year, I packed – very lightly, I might add, as, surprisingly for someone with four wardrobes and a predilection for hoarding, I only take one pair of shoes extra to what I wear on the plane, and a tiny toiletries bag of sample-sized skincare and two pairs of trousers –…
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JAPAN in May 2015 – highlights from my Instagram
Read more: JAPAN in May 2015 – highlights from my InstagramJAPAN in May 2015 – highlights in photos from my Instagram feed as I travelled the country in their Spring from New Zealand, over to Kyoto up to Hokkaido and back down by bullet train to Tokyo. Intro image: making tea in Hakodate ryokan inn. My Japanese breakfast this morning! Oishii. Beautiful dolls on display…
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Travel Journal: Theo Sangster in France
Read more: Travel Journal: Theo Sangster in FranceCHAPTER 1: THE SOUTH I had heard of the “three month slump” – where your average traveller falls into a pit of despair, yearning for home; looking up cheap flights on whichever cheap flight aggregator website is on trend. For me it took four months. I had woken up in an international student dorm room…
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Highlights of my Melbourne trip in Spring 2014
Read more: Highlights of my Melbourne trip in Spring 2014Melbourne is an incredible city and by far my favourite I’ve visited in Australia, so when I had the opportunity to tag along on the boy’s business trip and do some shoppercise and culture touring of my own, I leaped at the chance. Here are some highlights of my Melbourne trip in the Spring of…
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Road Trip to Rotorua
Read more: Road Trip to RotoruaThere’s something about the great tradition of taking your family on the road; – throwing everything you need and a couple of spares you probably don’t – into the boot and setting off into the great pre-booked. I, however, face TWC (Travelling With Children) with some degree of trepidation. I can barely get them to…
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Flying stay at JetPark Hotel in Auckland
Read more: Flying stay at JetPark Hotel in AucklandAirport hotels are for popping into in the dead of night and crashing out on cheap sheets with itchy blankets in rooms that feel like chicken coops, right? Wrong, when it comes to our flying stay at JetPark Hotel in Auckland … Far from being a soul-less holiday hotel, Jet Park hotel has really tried to…