Swede Success

My story on Malmo, in Sweden's south, is published in this week's issue of the NZ Woman's Weekly (click here to read).

Tennessee Waltz

My travel piece on Tennessee, which I visited as part of a Trafalgar media famil last year, is published in this month's issue of North & South Magazine (click here to read).

In the Pink

My story on Jaipur, India's 'pink city', from last year's Adventure World media trip, is published in the Flight Centre blog (click here to read).

  

Really? And a cruise line

For the last few weeks we have been melting in the unusually high temperatures (hello Global Warming). It is humid and sticky and hard to sleep.

However, for the last two days a well-known clothing chain has been filling my inbox with such gems as how to keep warm, the best way to wear knits and, this pearler, how to celebrate now that autumn is here. The fact that we've still got a month or so of summer left to run seems of little consequence to these fools.

Along with the rest of NZ, I might be whinging about how hot it is but I'd rather take the heat over the cold any day.

In a totally unrelated piece of news, I spent last night at Te Papa with about 600 passengers from an Azamara Cruise that was in town. We were entertained by Once Were Warriors actor Tem Morrison, listened to the fabulous Modern Maori Quarter  and congratulated ourselves on being in such a gorgeous setting on such a gorgeous summer evening.

Today's images are of, what else, but cute woofers. It's a long weekend in Aotearoa this weekend but wherever in the globe you are, y'all have a good one.

(Pic Credit: Tumblr) 

Need for Speed in Bologna

My story on my visit to the Ferrari and Ducati HQs during the Emirates media trip to Bologna is published in today's Dominion Post (and Monday's Christchurch Press). Click here to read.

A breath of fresh air

You know how some people suck all the oxygen and light out of the room? I must have a 'come and annoy me' sign on my forehead at the moment, because far too many of these draining folk are currently floating around in my orbit.

Which is why my interview with the co-owner of Dragonfly Restaurant, Asian Food Republic and Orient Homestore this morning was so refreshing. Having been a model and worked with Kate Moss and Calvin Klein, the lovely Tania had oodles of juicy stories to share. And she was so bloody nice, which makes a pleasant change.

Plus her store is filled with things I really, really want...

(Pic credit: Orient)

Another Bologna story

From November's Emirates media famil, this time published in the Flight Centre blog (click here to read).