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Alaska: Dancing with the stars
Paul Rush steps out for a late night rendezvous with the cosmos.
Top 5 cities in Europe by rail
I’m a big fan of whizzing around Europe by rail. Six cities in eight days I did once and it was a lot more efficient than…
Winston Aldworth: Think you've got it bad? Try Ryanair
In last week's Travel editorial , I made a passing reference to budget airlines. It opened a torrent of bitter responses…
Winston Aldworth: Wake-up call an airport eye-opener
Last week, I was the clown who kept the plane waiting. I've muttered darkly about such people before - how could you be…
Winston Aldworth: 100% behind event promotion
The trouble with running a tourism industry that offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience is that, well, people tend to do…
Winston Aldworth: Smith's chance for a sound decision
Conservation Minister Nick Smith's decision to take control of the plans for tourist access from Queenstown to Milford Sound…
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Jill Worrall: Sri Lanka
Wilbert Wattegedara has been a guard on Sri Lanka railways for 34 years, he tells me as I lurch around his guard's wagon as the Colombo to Badulla train as it winds its way fitfully through the hills. After only an hour…
Jill Worrall: Volcanic terrains
It's been a week of filling in gaps - exploring a few highways around the North Island that, as a South Islander, I'd never driven before. There were a couple of other new experiences too: first swim in Lake Taupo, first…
Jill Worrall: Art deco Napier
There's a rather bizarre side-effect of Napier's hugely popular Art Deco Festival, which took place over the weekend of February 15-17. Multi-coloured feathers, escapees from hundreds of feather boas were everywhere. They…
Jill Worrall: The 12 Apostles
You could say the 12 Apostles are the Great Ocean Road's poster boys - even though they are simply pillars of resistant rock and that at last count there were only eight of them. The Apostles, on the state of Victoria's…
Winston Aldworth: The shame of being a simple tourist
Are you a traveller or a tourist? For many Westerners making their way around the world, "getting off the tourist trail" is a priority. In fact, the "off-the-tourist-trail" trail has become an often well-beaten path. You…
Jill Worrall: Cape Otway
The first time I drove in Australia and came across one of those yellow signs warning me that I would be encountering kangaroos for the next X number of kilometres I was thrilled. How exciting it would be to see a roo in…
Winston Aldworth: Luxury market is where the really big money lies
Ah, looxury. That's us. Another tourism trophy landed on the Kiwi mantelpiece last week with New Zealand named the World's Best Luxury Destination for 2013. This accolade comes our way courtesy of the Chinese Luxury Travel…
Winston Aldworth: Looking at the flipside of your wishlist
Sometimes it's nice to hear a destination which you've always had on your bucketlist get a bit of a bad-mouthing. A dose of realism puts things in perspective and dims the potential disappointment of leaving an item unticked…
Winston Aldworth: Sit back and enjoy the ride
The bean-counters at Boeing might be having some sleepless nights about the Dreamliner, but should we, the humble travellers, be worried? In truth, many of us have probably flown on aircraft with shonkier safety records…
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The Exotic Booze Club: Drinking across the globe
Seat-of-the-pants expedition filmmaker Brian Armstrong has an eye for weird and wonderful alcoholic concoctions.
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London cabbies develop a different part of the brain
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Scientific research shows that black taxi drivers develop a particular part of the brain known as the…
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Some Kiwis, it seems, fancy a summer holiday period that better reflects the realities of our climate. A survey by Tourism Bay of Plenty found almost a quarter of New Zealand adults would support a move to ditch December…