There’s a version of experiencing New Zealand’s Southern Lakes that involves booking a guided walk, staying in huts for a few nights and arriving at the other end with abundant photos of spectacular vistas and…
Cairns punches above its weight for a city its size. Harbourside boardwalks are lined with fine dining, the marina is thick with seafood, and the Esplanade alone covers everything from a French bistro to a…
️Flight time~3 hours (clock shows 4)Direct airlinesJetstar, Qantas, Virgin AustraliaTime difference+1hr Sydney, Oct-Apr onlyFive nights in Cairns, and I’d stopped noticing how quiet the streets went after dark, how the mountains sat right behind the…
I heard the jet a full second before the trees opened up enough to see it. I hadn’t gone looking for a plane-spotting trail. I’d searched for an easy hike in Cairns with good views,…
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New Zealand’s food story is worth travelling for. People often ask me what New Zealand food actually is, and I never have a tidy answer. France has a cuisine. So does Italy, so does Japan.…
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Cape Tribulation is the one place on this whole Australia trip, Sydney to Tasmania to Melbourne to Cairns and back, where two World Heritage sites meet: the Daintree, widely considered the world’s oldest rainforest at…
I’d already seen this beach before I ever set foot on it. A jetty reaching out into a bay, recognisable enough from 30,000 feet that I named it in a caption weeks before I could…
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