The Forgotten World Adventure – one of New Zealand’s hidden treasures

The Forgotten World Adventure is a great 2-day experience taking you back in time to when New Zealand was truly rural, life was hard, and folk needed grit and determination to get ahead. We set off from Stratford, bound for Okahukura, near Taumarunui, on a journey of discovery to better understand how this pioneering generation […]

New Plymouth – highlights from my night in New Plymouth

It’s been quite a few years since I was in New Plymouth, in fact, it was in 2013, when I was at AUT completing my post grad in journalism. As part of the course I was assigned to work at the Taranaki Daily News for a week. Now 13 years on, I’ve returned to New […]