I see the Viking Star  is now safely in port in Norway after its engine failure and the dramatic helicopter rescue of its passengers...

Oops. At this moment, an identical sister ship of Viking Sun (on which regular readers 😃 wiil recall I briefly sailed a couple of weeks a...

It's been a rough week, so it was a gift to wake up to a glorious sunny autumn morning and head out on the biennial Waiheke Sculptur...

I grew up in Christchurch. I’m old, so it was through the 1960s and ‘70s. It was a very white, monocultural city then. I remember, when...

Both have been selling fast over the weekend. Florists have run out of stock as people have poured in wanting flowers to place at the variou...

I really believe that's not an exaggeration. Yesterday was New Zealand's 9/11 - the same scale (somebody has calculated that 49 out ...

Shit. I never wanted to be right about this.  This afternoon a scumbag armed himself up with an illegal semi-automatic rifle and shot dead...