Flying from Auckland to Milan via Dubai with Emirates – published NZ Herald, July 11, 2017

Jane Jeffries flies First Class from NZ to Italy…read more
29 years, celebrated at EURO

Our wedding anniversary fell on a Monday this year with many restaurants closed including our top three favs, so we decided to give Euro Restaurant and Bar a go having not been there for many years. Walking in, the maitre de greeted us offering us a drink at the bar, but as it was one of […]
How to explore the Hauraki Gulf

I was recently invited to experience day out in the Hauraki Gulf with a new boating company, operating out of the Sandspit marina near Matakana, an hour north of Auckland. Kurt Salmond, the owner and skipper of ‘Kokomo,’ and Gulf Eco Charters has refurbished a spacious fishing boat and fitting twin engines that go like the clappers. […]