Two hours from home to destination, mostly spent on two separate boat trips - that counts as travel, doesn’t it? It does for me these days...

  This is a kiwi, New Zealand’s national bird, emblem and citizen nickname (with a capital K). Today ten of them were brought to Waiheke fro...

This is Rosie. She is, her owner told me with a touch of resignation, stingray-spotting. “She doesn’t realise the season has ended.” Well, I...

Oh dear, poor Myanmar. That was a massive earthquake for Mandalay on Friday, 7.7 - our 2011 one in Christchurch was 6.2 and that was a forev...

Today it’s been five whole years since everybody’s phone beeped at 6.30pm, and all the awfulness that we’d just been watching on the news ca...

This is good news for everybody in, or visiting, Wellington. It’s a - literally - big display at the national museum, Te Papa , that’s focus...

No disaster links today. (That’s a choice, of course, not an actual state of affairs, as we all know.) Anyway, the background in the screens...