Transported by Porto

If you've ever tasted a warm, crumbly pasteis de nata in Portugal, you'll know why it's not madness to fly 19,720 for a baked good.

I wrote about it in the Aug/Sept issue of Nadia Magazine (click here to read).

  

Cruise by numbers

My first story from the March Portugal river cruise media trip is in today's Sunday Star Times and Stuff NZ (click here to read).

  

Rock the Casbah

The first story from my recent Morocco media trip is published in today's Sunday Star Times (here's a link to the online version).

And yes, you're probably going to have that Clash song velcroed to your brain stem for the rest of the day too. You're welcome.

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Visual evidence I was in Morocco

No need to send out a search party, here I am!

Yes it's been more than a week since I got back from the Emirates/On the Go/CroisiEurope media trip to Morocco and Portugal, but as well as battling jet-lag (even though Emirates is kind to journos and put me in Business Class, the time zone changes still mess with your head), I've been literally running from one deadline to the next since I got home.

But here's some of what I did and saw in Morocco...and once I get around to writing the stories, I will publish/link to them here so you can read all about this fabulous trip.

   

Morocco and Portugal, here I come!

In a few hours I will get on a big silver bird to fly to Auckland and then after a few hours of fannying about at Auckland Airport, will do the first 17 hour leg to Dubai where I'll have a shower (thank you, god of airport lounges) and then a couple of hours later do the 8.5 hour schlep to Casablanca

I'll be doing a seven night tour of Morocco for a story and then flying to Porto for a five night river cruise, also for a story. Thank you Emirates Airlines for taking pity on a poor journalist and bumping me up to business class. I truly heart you.

See you on the other side.

(Images of Morocco and Porto c/o Google Images)