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A Wild West Weekend | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
Pounding surf, galloping horses and a rugged coastline fringed with subtropical forests are standard ingredients of many a romantic creation. The beaches here are splendid and savage
Coast of Ghosts | Julie Miller | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
The isolation is overwhelming. Yet my companion, Bob Harvey – local mayor and passionate advocate of Auckland’s west coast beaches – is convinced we are not alone on this remote headland
Letter from New Zealand | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
Postcards will have to be thrown out; songs rewritten and a hill renamed all because of the felling of a single pine tree in Auckland last month
Letter from New Zealand | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
161 years later Waitangi Day has become a fulcrum for protest and renewal among Maori, but a mixed blessing for Pakeha (non-Maori). Nice to have the day off but is there anything to celebrate
Notes From NZ | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
Summer as adventure. Summer as hedonism. Summer as a journey in New Zealand along a coast which straddles both the wild and the mild.
Rustica Suburbia | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
On a weekend away in the Matua Valley I bought a hat made out of bread bags, some herbed wine vinegar, two bubble makers and three cases of wine. I was only gone two days.
The Best America's Cup Ever | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland
Yvonne Van Dongen gives the low-down on the 2002/2003 America's Cup in New Zealand.