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We never leave home without a camera when we travel so we can preserve the memories. We're just amateurs who simply love to catch the moment and rarely take the time to fiddle with Shutter and Aperture Speeds. So our cameras are usually set on automatic.

It's early morning and the sun is already out in Taumaranui. We are about to embark on the Twenty Tunnel Forgotten World Adventures Rail tour to ride the rails.

Stop what you are doing for a sec and just imagine yourself touring the countryside riding on the back of a powerful Harley Davidson motorbike dressed in black leathers with a gentle summer breeze blowing through your hair.

Looking for a bach to buy in the upper North Island proved unexpectedly hard work for a couple at the beginning of last year.

Catherine Stewart answers your questions and shares her best tips for planning a cycling trip along the iconic Otago Rail Trail.

Melanie Hawkins went searching for the unexpected in Rotorua. Driving into Rotorua on a beautiful winter ...

If you are planning to visit Tauranga here is a list, in no particular order, of my favourite things to see and do.

Invercargill, The Southernmost City in New Zealand might seem like the back of beyond to most Aucklanders but it has a lot to offer as we discovered recently at the biannual gathering of the 69er Massey Veterinary Class.

Waikanae is Reuben Bonner's spiritual home in many ways - it's where his "Nana" still lives and he has many pleasant memories from a sunny childhood there.

There's more than gold and greenstone in the mountains of the West Coast - there's also a stone that is unique to that part of the world. Reuben Bonner has that story