Well, we all survived another winter without going to Tuscany. Yay us! Who needs hilltop towns and 16th-century churches anyway? Personally, I found New Zealand had more than enoug ...

As with many an Aotearoa gem, if you fail to take a crucial turn as you swoop into Ōamaru, an hour and a half north of Dunedin, you’ll miss the staggering genius of this stunnin ...

Before Covid, some years I’d spend more of my time overseas than I would in Wellington – in the last few years I’ve worked in Israel, Italy, Romania, London, New York and Los ...

I wake to the sound of a howling gale and rain hitting the window and look at my watch. It is 6am Chatham Islands time – or 5.15am back in “New Zealand”, as the locals here c ...

My family are from Rotorua – the grandparents started up a department store there, Mathias Drapery, and I spent my Auckland childhood visiting the cousins every year, mostly at C ...

When Scout invited Whangārei artist Olivia Garelja to create an artwork for this issue, she knew straight away which New Zealand landscape she wanted to paint: Taratara Mountain i ...

Road trip! So much to organise ahead of time before leaving the big city. Oversized map showing all the essentials, including petrol stations open 24/7? Tick. List of the cleanest ...

If there’s one thing TV show Schitt’s Creek has taught me, it’s that small towns are full of serendipity. So when I was flown down to Queenstown to have a “celebrity cameo ...

Thursday 11.30AM A morning ferry and a coffee is a great combo, and in Sydney, San Francisco and Istanbul, I’ve found it’s an excellent way to start the day. Today’s journey ...

Eat your greens, sit up straight and avoid alleyways that look as though they’ll do you mischief. Who wasn’t taught that as a child? But while our mothers might have been right ...