
Byron Bay: The Aviary, Combi and Swift
You have probably seen it on surf wear, read about it in magazines or heard it in songs. “You going to Aus? Byron Bay?” A common sentence...

Airlie Beach: Taz and his chicks
The M1 continues to flow south, camper vans and surfer trucks all roll at a suitably relaxed pace towards Airlie. The Mecca for school...

Townsiville, Mission and who the hell is Maggie?
The binge drinking, gappie tour continues as we work our way south. Greyhound buses and campers pull in on the hour, dropping off yet...

Cairns: Gappies & Jellies at the Great Barrier Reef
The queue crawled through duty free, edging towards the official boarder of Australia. The sun is shining, temperatures pushing 40...

Osaka: Neon lights meet vintage sights
To some a word scribbled on the front of Superdry T-shirts. To others, Osaka remains one of Japan’s most vibrant urban sprawls....

Kyoto: Unthinkable beauty visiting Japan's cultural epicentre
Sinking into the deep seats, with more leg room than a BA business class flight, we were due our first ride on a Bullet. The pace...

Tokyo: Where toilets, restaurants and trains need instruction manuals of their own
Arrows on the floor lead efficiency to the clinical like immigration. Short men prop up robotic machines, ready to welcome you into their...

Honolulu: Surf, shop and run till you drop
Come with the expectation of a bustling city, fit to be housed in Singapore or Switzerland. This clean, urban sprawl - towering over the...

Maui: A tramps paradise?
Talking to himself and rattling his shopping trolley down the street, another tramp made his way to the beach. The little bench on the...

Bora Bora: A floating bit of paradise somewhere in the Pacific
As the plane bounces down towards another archipelago of atolls, floating somewhere in the Pacific, a tannoy lets you know that the...

Ra'aitera & Taha: Boating through coral gardens and swimming with sharks...yes, yes, yes!
A bit like teasing a dog with a biscuit you never intend on giving him, Ra’aitera lures you in with its pristine lagoons and neighbouring...

Huahine: Scooting around another floating gem in the Pacific
An iPad screen etched with ‘Zoe’ and a loud floral shirt, Vaya was waiting our arrival. A short man, maybe 5ft 6 and with dark, greasy...

Mo'oera: Bikes, scooters and hitching a ride on a school bus!
The plane races into land amidst turquoise blue lagoons and elegant palms. You take the scenic route across the tarmac, from plane to...

French Polynesia- Tahiti: The land of the tattoo and the mother of all waves!
With more flowers resting on ear lobes than in the trees and more chilled surfer blokes than a surf comp, Tahiti certainly could vie for...

New Zealand: The suburban metropolis where a car park became home in Auckland
Suburbia meets downtown in this sprawling metropolitan centre on the North Island. Unlike most cities of this magnitude on the global...

New Zealand: Boiling beaches, hidden coves and the best fish and chips
Jutting out to the east of Auckland, a peninsula rich of sea life, dressed in green vegetation and bordered with white sand beaches - the...

New Zealand: The Geothermal caldron of Rotarua & Taupo
A skiers heaven and any wakeboarders dream, Lake Taupo resides in the heartland of the North Island. With flat waters as wide as the eye...

New Zealand: Windy Welly and the Wines of Napier
It is remarkable how human behaviour mirrors that of sheep. What the first does, the remainder follow. As we rolled off the ship - first...

New Zealand: Golden sands, turquoise waters and the mother of all coastal walks!
They say that Nelson receives more sunlight hours than any other part of the land of the long white cloud. Having battled through the...





















