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Jim Eagles: New service off to a flying start
Improved transport links can make it easier for us to visit the beautiful corners of NZ.
Improved transport links can make it easier for us to visit the beautiful corners of NZ.
Te Araroa - a national walkway running the length of the country - will be officially opened this weekend.
The Independent's Kate Simon on "thrillaxing" holidays.
The spot named New Zealand's best secret camping spot by NZ Herald Travel readers has been revealed.
Travelling used to be so easy before I became a healthy person.
When we told my son, who was trained as a biologist, that we were going on a cruise, he muttered darkly about norovirus.
The group Tourism Concern is urging the travel industry to integrate a human rights approach into its business strategies.
I've commented previously that if you want to know the best things to do, places to stay or spots to visit in this country, it's often a good idea to ask a tourist.
For many years, in the interests of uninterrupted holidaying pleasure, I conveniently overlooked Fiji's problems.
If you start writing enthusiastic stories about trips that are complete rubbish, you'll soon lose all credibility.
Getting on a plane, muses Him Eagles, is almost always inefficient and frustrating.
One of the problems with airpoints is keeping track of them, writes Jim Eagles.
Honeymoon flight the perfect opportunity to try out Air New Zealand's Skycouch innovation.
In the last fifteen months I've taken only a soft-sided carry-on bag on three separate overseas trips.
If there is any city in the world in which one should play absolute tourist, London is it.
Part of the reason for motorhomes' increasing popularity has to be the improved comfort.
Where is it safe to travel overseas? Some places are fairly easy to rule out. Afghanistan or Iraq, Congo and Sudan are only likely to attract the most adventurous traveller.
At first, I thought somebody had died and we'd stumbled into the place where the corpse was being embalmed...
At the height of the aviation chaos caused by the ash cloud, I commented to my wife, "It's going to be interesting to see the outcome of this ... "
One of the trickier decisions you face when you're on the road in a strange country is where to eat.
If you're looking for a cheap holiday in New Zealand then Auckland is the place to go.
Is the threat of a $200 instant fine going to deter the feckless minority of free campers?
I've just used one of the European budget airlines for the first time, and found it very good.
Whether you get fat and flabby while you're travelling rather depends what sort of trip you're on.
The first time I ever flew must have been about 1960 in a Grumman Widgeon amphibian, piloted by the famous Freddie Ladd.
If you want to know the best places to check out when you're visiting a foreign country you're often best advised to ask a tourist rather than a local.
Ombudsman Deborah Battell says her office has received complaints from travellers that paying in their home currency when using credit cards may actually cost them more.
We baby boomers seem hell-bent on dashing off around the world gaining notches in our money belts. Everyone has been, or is going, to Europe or Asia.
I'm sure it's an embarrassing sign of old age and colonial cringe but one thing I do like to have when I'm on the road is a nice early morning cup of weak tea... well, two cups, really.