“Be careful out there, it’s very addictive,” warned our hut ranger Grace, as she bade us farewell from Clinton Hut with a twinkle in her eye. We already knew that, of course. Afterall, this had been our third try at booking the Department of Conservation (DOC) huts on the Milford Track. Armed with learnings from […]
The Great Barrier Island adventure begins even before you arrive. Located in the Hauraki Gulf about 100km north-east of Auckland CBD, visitors have two options to get there: a four-and-a-half-hour ferry ride or 35-minute flight from Auckland. Given our limited time on the island (an extended long weekend of four days), we opted for the […]
As avid seafood fans, we’ve always dreamt of having fresh oysters right off the seabed. Last weekend, our dreams came true onboard the Shuckle Ferry when we went on NZ’s only oyster farm tour. Steering our little boat through the Mahurangi Harbour was Phil, with 13 years of experience working on a superyacht around the […]
After confirming our trip to New Zealand, at the top of our list was to experience one of its Great Walks in the Southern Alps – either the Milford, Kepler or Routeburn Track. All three are incredibly popular and even though we had been 6 months ahead, the huts for Milford were full and almost […]
If you were to win a pair of tickets to anywhere in the world, where would you go? That was the million-dollar question (okay, more like three-thousand-dollar question) after winning the Amex Travel Hacks contest in June 2016. Just by simply submitting my ‘top 3 travel hacks’ on a Facebook contest page, I had won […]