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WHITE AGE REALLY IS IMPORTANT

WHITE AGE REALLY IS IMPORTANT

Wc05May08 YOUR WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning 5 May 2008 wine with david ellis WHAT do you do when you’ve a great winemaking team with all the skills to go that one step forward, you’ve access to the very best of fruit, but you don’t have a label that you think a resultant wine […]

WHITE AGE REALLY IS IMPORTANT

WHITE AGE REALLY IS IMPORTANT

Wc05May08 YOUR WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning 5 May 2008 wine with david ellis WHAT do you do when you’ve a great winemaking team with all the skills to go that one step forward, you’ve access to the very best of fruit, but you don’t have a label that you think a resultant wine […]

The Last Mahouts

The Last Mahouts

They stood before us like condemned men, their proud tradition and heritage had run its course. These well-weathered, handsome men of the jungle were the last real mahouts, trained in the ancient and dangerous art of wild elephant capture. The mighty Asian elephant has featured large in Asian culture for centuries. This enormous beast, a […]

Snow Falls in NZ Ski Resorts

Winter is knocking on the door of the South Island with snow reported at ski resorts and on the Crown Range road, between Wanaka and Queenstown. Snow fell overnight and at times during today through the southern part of New Zealand and the high country of Canterbury. The cold blast is set to sweep into […]

Snow Falls in NZ Ski Resorts

Winter is knocking on the door of the South Island with snow reported at ski resorts and on the Crown Range road, between Wanaka and Queenstown. Snow fell overnight and at times during today through the southern part of New Zealand and the high country of Canterbury. The cold blast is set to sweep into […]

EUMUNDI FOOD FEST

Foodies on the Sunshine Coast are advised to put Sunday 13 July in their dairy as the date for the 2008 Eumundi Food Fest. The annual event (now in its sixth year) brings together local producers, growers, chefs, restaurateurs, entertainers and food lovers with a host of activities and entertainment throughout the day. Eumundi Food […]

EUMUNDI FOOD FEST

Foodies on the Sunshine Coast are advised to put Sunday 13 July in their dairy as the date for the 2008 Eumundi Food Fest. The annual event (now in its sixth year) brings together local producers, growers, chefs, restaurateurs, entertainers and food lovers with a host of activities and entertainment throughout the day. Eumundi Food […]

16-NIGHT ASIA FLY, CRUISE AND STAY

16-NIGHT ASIA FLY, CRUISE AND STAY

IF you’re flying all the way to Singapore to take a cruise holiday, ecruising.travel suggests you get the most for your airfare buck with a value-priced 16-night package that includes not one, but two weeks cruising, and a hotel night in Singapore both pre- and post-cruise. And its fly, cruise and stay package is priced […]

16-NIGHT ASIA FLY, CRUISE AND STAY

16-NIGHT ASIA FLY, CRUISE AND STAY

IF you’re flying all the way to Singapore to take a cruise holiday, ecruising.travel suggests you get the most for your airfare buck with a value-priced 16-night package that includes not one, but two weeks cruising, and a hotel night in Singapore both pre- and post-cruise. And its fly, cruise and stay package is priced […]

The Brand of the Long White Cloud

The Brand of the Long White Cloud

Published Sunday Telegraph Escape – 6 May 2007 – © Roderick Eime [PDF] “New Zealand. Show me one good thing about it,” asked a cynical Peter FitzSimons in Tourism NZ’s highly successful 2004 TV campaign. His artificial rhetoric has come home and our Kiwi cousins are basking in tourism success. Of course, catalysts like Lord […]