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Light Way To Travel: It seems the Kiwi tradition of a two-year OE or sabbatical in the UK will be continued. Time for us travellers, of all ages, to grab our bags and take off - leave our never-arrived summer, spend some time in the Asian heat and get to the UK for their summer.
What bag will you take - small wheeled case, top-loading backpack, suitcase backpack, a large suitcase or a daypack? It seems the longer people travel, or the more they have travelled, the smaller the container for their gear.
What do I recommend? As always it depends on the destination, your lifestyle and the activities you will indulge in...
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Egypt - Land of Heat and Memories
"Go down to the river and turn left," I tell myself. I'm in a new city, looking for the museum. I'm halfway there before I realise what I've said. The river, so casually dismissed as a place on the map, is the Nile.
This is Cairo, the ancient city of Babylon, and I'm on a brief stopover, much to the disbelief of the staff at the low-budget hotel...
Family Fun in Christchurch
"For both visitors and locals, Christchurch can be a fun place for children, and now, halfway through the holidays is exactly when you may need ideas about what to do or where to go. Here are just a few.
How about all the free places? The art galleries and the museum are great, jst remember to do them in small portions and visit often..."
A Healthy Look At Heritage
Herbal medicines and family history combine to provide one of the newest tourist ventures in Kaikoura. Maori Tours, which began in January 2002, takes guests on a tour that traces Kaikoura's history then on for a bush walk to explore the medicinal properties of our native trees and bush..
Punting in Christchurch
With the school holidays nearing the end, you may have almost exhausted the activity options around the city, but have you included boating on the Avon - one of the time-honoured ways of enjoying the warmer weather in the Garden City?
Spending Time In Greenwich
GREENWICH Park, surrounded by a fence in the 15th century to protect the Duke of Gloucester's hunting ground, is the oldest of London's royal parks.
Popular with visitors since 1838, when the railway allowed people to get there easily, it still attracts visitors from all over the world...
Different View Of Athens
"Staff Wanted" the sign said and on a whim I enquired. I'd arrived in Athens two hours earlier - a city I'd vowed to never return to because of the heat, dirt and noise - yet there I was job-hunting.
"Come in the morning," I was told, and at 8am I was asked if I could cook, to which I replied "yes".
Five minutes later with six long loaves of bread under my arm...
Land Of Plenty... For Tourists
"Psst! Change Money? Opium? Marijuana?" Women mutter the offer from behind hands as I walk into the market. The black-market thrives in Laos and, here in Luang Prabang, a World Heritage site, I succumb to temptation.
"How Much?" I ask, and, with that sign of encouragement, I'm whisked into the walkways of the market and negotiations begin...
A Visitor's Story - When is a kiwi not a kiwi?
In a hidden, almost secret valley, kiwis are breeding only 3km from Parliament - in the heart of our capital city; a slice of New Zealand is reverting to its former glory with the help of a predator-free mainland island.
When early settlers wrote about this area they reported rich and diverse forests filled with deafening bird-song...