A Maverick Traveller

A rugged region steeped in history: Part two of a two part post

What else can I say about this wonderful region?

Beautiful but deadly, Mount Taranaki is reasonably easy to get up. The hard part is getting down.

‘When death itself is dead, I shall be alive’

A rugged region steeped in history: Part one of a two-part post

A landscape less often travelled

Discovering the ‘Rhine of New Zealand’

Twenty-five years ago, New Zealanders were demanding that some of their monuments be torn down. What can we learn from that experience?

I visit New Zealand’s capital city: a cultured and beautiful town assaulted endlessly by nature’s forces at ‘the head of Māui’s fish’

Central Hawkes Bay and the Wairarapa

What you will see as you leave Gisborne for Hawkes Bay

A slow journey around New Zealand’s East Cape

By Road, in New Zealand

Matchstalk figures amid the snow

From a cosy ski club to costly commercialism, and having to make their own snow

A Heritage Tour of Moscow and St Petersburg

Te Atatū and its living mudflats

New Zealand’s Colonial Time Capsule

A Sacred Pool to the Māori, a Mine to the Pākehā, Instagrammable Today

Auckland’s a city that’s now almost 180 years old, yet which most people don’t think of as having much of a history.

Striking Historical Gold in New Zealand

A trip to Rangitoto, the Harbour Volcano

From Inebriates’ Retreat to a Crèche for Kiwi

The countries that are succeeding and the countries that are failing