I had time for not one but two tours today, with and evening stroll around the Rocks, the earliest settlement […]
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Day 144: A quirky look at Sydney
I did another free walking tour today – how does that work? You pay tips at the end of the […]
Day 137: Tassie Explorer Part 4 – Port Arthur and Prison History
Another day, another pick up, with another guide and a different group of people joining us. We were back up […]
Day 132: Illustrated History
Federation Square, which created a public square for Melbourne finally in 2002 is the home to a number of art […]
Day 123: A museum that really makes you think
New Year’s celebrations overseas and alone can be hit and miss. Solo for New Year in Iceland was amazing. I […]
Day 112: Boom, Bust and Beyond…
I think we’ve had the best of the weather today. The mountains behind our hotel are shrouded in cloud and […]
Day 110: Is there anywhere else quite like this? The Coromandel Coastal Walkway
I joined a motley crew of walkers to head up the Coromandel Peninsula to talk the Coastal Walk from Stony […]
Day 103: Living on a volcano – geothermal village
Before leaving Rotorua, we headed to Whakarewarewa… which is actually a shortened version of the village’s full name: Te Whakarewarewatanga […]
Day 100: A taste of the 1930s in Napier
Napier was destroyed by an earthquake in 1931. The collapse of buildings and the fires that followed killed 256 people. […]
Day 90: An awesome day out at an Auckland Museum
The museum in question is the Auckland War Memorial Museum and if anyone was here yesterday, you may remember that […]
The Adventures of Phileas Fiona 
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