Auckland Anniversary Day today and the harbour was full of 10,000 yachts in and watching the Regatta, while the waterfront was full of peopl...

In another  new thing for me, I'm featuring in a series of advertisements for Australia - or at least my words are. The urgent but nic...

In a new move for me, I've written a guest post on another blog: Blogger At Large , which is a proper travel blog full of information a...

My goodness, that scurrilous Schettino, captain of the liner Costa Concordia, is such a cliché Italian coward that he's single-handedl...

I've been MIA all week because of a new laptop and the unconscionable effort it's taken to get it set up and transfer all my files...

So the back half of the Rena finally slipped beneath the waves today, three months after it ran aground on a reef off Tauranga, spilling ...

Oh dear, shocking news today: the first disaster of the new year, only one week in. In the Wairarapa, a hot-air balloon hit power lines, c...