Steve Carr

In 1998, movie director extraordinaire Sir Peter Jackson sent a trusted scout around the Waikato region of New Zealand to

After Wellington Gardens, we should have known it had to go downhill, and I’m not talking about the road or

About an hour south of Auckland sits the city of Hamilton. Located on the banks of the Waikato River, it

After our lovely stay in a converted barn at the Lupton Lodge, a farm that appeared to have been transported

The bucket list spot on the North Island of New Zealand is the Bay of Islands. Every person you encounter,

I got up early and watched the morning light play cloud tag with the ocean and sand dunes. A prettier

We rented a car from Europcar in downtown Auckland with the return set up for the airport at the end

Catching the ferry from Auckland to Waiheke Island proved to be a bit more difficult than we had first imagined.

What’s with all the Sky Tower/Space Needles in towns along the Pacific Ocean? There’s one in Seattle, Tokyo, Shanghai, Guangzhou,

The first thing I noticed after seeing the heavenly sailing boats lining Viaduct Harbour was just how friggin cool Auckland, the