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Return to Paradise: The Coast Northwest of Nelson

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May 9, 2025

Another beautiful holiday playground, in New Zealand's South Island but safe from southern winds.

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May 14, 2019

The Catlins: An overlooked corner of New Zealand

April 24, 2019

Kars and Ani

April 10, 2019

Climbing Mount Ararat: Borders, bears and rockets

March 20, 2019

The Enduring Lure of Egypt (Part 2)

March 12, 2019

The Enduring Lure of Egypt (Part 1)

February 26, 2019

New Zealand's Post-Colonial Housing Crisis (a second post on housing)

February 19, 2019

Why don't we have affordable barn houses in New Zealand? A plan to beat the housing emergency

February 3, 2019

From Heritage, to Glass and Girders? Notes on Invercargill’s Downtown Renewal Scheme

February 1, 2019

City of Museums: Invercargill, and its port of Bluff

January 24, 2019

Sounding out Dunedin

January 16, 2019

Dunedin and the Taieri Gorge Railway

January 8, 2019

No Doubts about Doubtful Sound

January 6, 2019

Very Viking Shetlands

January 1, 2019

Cromwell and the Paradise Valley: or, Xmas in New Zealand

December 23, 2018

Floating to Fingal’s Cave: The Three Isles Tour of Iona, Mull and Staffa

December 19, 2018

Raasay, and Calum's Road

December 12, 2018

A Trip to the Orkneys

November 20, 2018

Cyprus, the island that copper's named after

October 22, 2018

From Brexit to Break-Up? Mrs May's Ulster Fry

October 10, 2018

Edinburgh's Festivals

September 27, 2018

Israel, through a Kiwi Lens

September 15, 2018

On Tour with David, the Horse Rescuer

September 11, 2018

Out into the Palestinian Territory

September 5, 2018

From Jordan to Jerusalem

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