Returning to New Zealand

August 13, 2009

It was close to midnight as the pilot mumbled that we were about to descend. I looked around the cabin, a gallery of oval frames. In a dozen of them, I glanced the burning embers of Wellington. Street lamps flowed in channels off the rumpled hills that shepherd the city to the southern coast New […]

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A Haphazard Birthday

August 4, 2009

Heart thumping. Eyes sweating. Palms clenched. Girlfriend weeping. People staring. Lady smiling. Jaw gripped. Foot shuffling. Mind racing. We were checking in one hour before our scheduled departure, and the lady at the check-in desk was telling us we weren’t getting on the flight. Lady smiling. Palms clenched.

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Thanks. But.

July 23, 2009

As all established travel bloggers will tell you, we receive a lot of awards. Awards for the whitest website. Awards for having the website with the cleanest language. Awards for the most amount of exclamation marks used to tell the world you won an award!!!!!!!

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Flight of the Cockheads

July 21, 2009

Have you ever pre-applied for a visa while on the road? If so, you’ll know they always say “don’t make travel plans until your visa is confirmed”. As always, when I was recently applying for New Zealand’s 23-month working holiday visa, I respectably scoffed at the small print. Six weeks to secure a working holiday […]

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The Antarctic: Travel Photography Scholarship

July 18, 2009

Would a whale pose a while? Should a seal steal the show? Perhaps a penguin pouts? Is it right, an albatross has an air of arrogance? These are all questions you can discover the answers to while shimmying around the Antarctic, escorted by a National Geographic photographer. Yes, Antarctica. You can go there. How? HowcanIgothere? […]

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A Knights Trail: Two Years On

July 15, 2009

And so it was written, that a noble knight would renounce his legacy and set off on a great journey. He would venture through foreign lands, flicking morsels of exotic food into his mouth and drink from foreign goblets. He would sway with the largest forests, duck under rocks and dive under cover. Steeds would […]

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Local Knowledge

July 11, 2009

I say wolf, you say creek. I say Wolfe Creek, you say movie. I say Wolfe Creek the movie, you say backpackers. I say Wolfe Creek the backpacker movie, you say gruesome. I say Wolfe Creek the gruesome backpacker movie, you say murders. I say Wolfe Creek the gruesome backpacker murder movie, you say don’t […]

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