I’ve left Auckland after a fab few days. I was feeling I hadn’t quite got the pulse of the culture after four days. This, despite the fact I’d spent a day at the out of town 49th Auckland Folk Festival, a quiet little affair in the equestrian hills north west of the city. Woodstock it […]

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Ponsonby is so much like Glebe, where we lived in Sydney… every second storefront is a bustling bar or restaurant, there’s a woman’s bookshop, a tattoo parlour, a herbarium, a sustainable veggie burger joint, endless coffee bars, and an evening view to CBD down across the valley towards the Pacific Ocean. Hipster heaven. This trip […]

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