Trail blazers

Am well and truly back in the writing trenches so no time for the blog today.

Instead, you shall have my story on NZ's cycle trails which appears in this month's Cathay Pacific inflight magazine, Discovery (click here to read).

Hong Kong

Remember back in March, I spent a week running around Honkers interviewing amazing architects, photographers and creatives for Urbis Mag?

Well the June/July issue is out - and my 17 page spread (that is not a typo, it is indeed 17 pages long) on the magical Special Administrative Region of China looks fabulous, if I do say so myself. Click here to read. 

Thanks to the amazing creatives for being involved and to the ever fabulous Hong Kong Tourism Board and Cathay Pacific for helping to make it happen.

   

Is a picture worth more than 900 words?

It would appear so.

News just in that the Animator is getting paid more for the pix for this story for Cathay Pacific's inflight magazine about the Seoul fish market than I am for the words (click here to read).

He, of course, thinks it's hilarious.

Notes from the pointy end of the plane

Oh Business Class, you seductress. You sucked me in, pampered me with your airport lounge, priority boarding (which pretty much earns you the scorn of those queuing for cattle class), fully reclining seats and the cutest goody bag.

The 11 hour flight from Honkers zipped by in no time at all. Thank you Cathay Pacific for the free flights and the even better upgrade. Of course that makes it hard to turn right at the door of the plane from now on...
    
Waiting for me was this gorgeous wee boy.The Animator had to rush back to work so I took Bristol into the Town Belt where we met up with some of his doggie mates. A few of the other dog walkers even asked where I'd been and said they'd missed me in the last week. I cannot tell you how good it is to be home.

    

Hong Kong and UK, here I come!

Eight hundred and seventy three emails later (I can, it seems, never pass up an opportunity to exaggerate), and my media trip to HK and Europe seems to be coming together.

Well at least my comped flights with the marvellous Cathay Pacific are sorted, anyway. Baby steps.

Missives are currently flying across the world to set up lunches, dinners and sleep-overs with mates in HK, London and Bristol. I especially CANNOT wait to see my besties Anita, Frenchie and Yoma in Bristol.

In the meantime, there is a stupidly long list of stuff to tick off. But at least I finally have some kind of traction...

     
(Pic credit: Vivienne Westwood)