Travel Tales: Alan Wilcock
Name: Alan G Wilcock Age: 49 Occupation: National Sales Manager in the airline industry Favourite travel destination?: New York City – never ever fails to excite the imagination; a new experience by just walking two blocks! Worst travel experience?: Being deported from Bermuda. Best meal you’ve ever had while travelling?: A little restaurant in the hills over [...]
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Food lover’s guide to NZ
Christchurch to Nelson: The Delicious Alternative to Rugby If you would rather step on a fire ant nest than watch a sporting match, there is plenty for you to do in New Zealand that doesn’t involve rugby. The purity of New Zealand’s environment has some pretty tasty results in the form of raw milk cheeses, [...]
Snow aliens on Mt Owen
Everybody has heard of snow angels but snow aliens? They’re new. A snow alien is what happens when you land on your back in hard, icy snow and your head leaves a giant hole but your arms and legs look spindly. I discovered this new life form when I was on a Lord of the [...]
Christchurch is OK
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived in Christchurch yesterday. Devastation? Rubble? A city destroyed by disaster? Nope. Christchurch is actually OK. Around the perimeters of the city, there is evidence of the quake. Some houses are held up by wooden struts, while others are missing chunks of eaves and roof. The CBD [...]
Queenstown for beginners by Rachel Monk
The land of the long white cloud may be just a quick jaunt across the Tasman, but I’d never experienced what it has to offer. I know New Zealand has plenty for tourists to enjoy, thanks to those perky Kiwi TV commercials. I could have visited Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch, not to mention all of [...]
Lisa’s Travel Deal of the Week
Lisa’s Travel Deal of the Week It’s been a long time between deals for me here at SheGoes. After some time spent tramping the wilds of Victoria, I returned to Sydney and a house move that had me convinced it would have actually just been easier to stay in the wilds of Victoria and construct [...]
When things don’t work out the way you planned
Sometimes the reality of a place doesn’t quite live up to what the travel agent sold you. Maybe you didn’t read the fine print. Maybe you forgot to ask how long it was going to take to get there. That’s what happened on my last trip to New Zealand. In my role as Organizatron, I managed [...]
Travel Tales: Lorraine Elliott aka NotQuiteNigella
Name: Lorraine Elliott Occupation: Food Blogger and publisher of www.notquitenigella.com Favourite travel destination? That’s a tough one. I loved Phuket, Finland and New Zealand but for different reasons. Phuket because we stayed at a fabulous resort that arranged for a lot of fun activities for us, Finland because of the complete novelty of a country [...]
