Author: Emily

  • Mt Cook National Park

    Mt Cook National Park

    I don’t need to tell you Mt Cook National Park is a staple of any New Zealand road trip. Any travel book will assert that indisputable fact. I can however, paint a picture of what particular details have hooked in us travellers for decades.  To list all the reasons you…

  • Mt Taranaki

    Mt Taranaki

    You may be thinking, why is this weeks blog dedicated to a single mountain when all previous weeks have covered entire towns or national parks? Well for one, the experience of Mt Taranaki does not just happen standing at its feet. Mt Taranaki, due to the topographic irregularity of being…

  • Queenstown

    Queenstown

    Queenstown we were warned against from the start. If you go there, you will fall in love. You will never want to leave. New Zealand cities will pale in comparison to Queenstown. But there is no affordable housing. No affordable groceries. You will be doomed live in a house share…

  • Arrowtown

    Arrowtown

    The best way to comparatively describe Arrowtown is if a wild western town and a rural English village parented a new aesthetic. It feels romantically frozen in time, antiquated, a rural English village 100 years ago (to make the comparison most familiar). Though Arrowtown is of course entirely its own…

  • Arthur’s Pass

    Arthur’s Pass

    Arthur’s pass is most conventionally acknowledged as the gateway to New Zealand’s west coast and the glacier highway. It is the highway traversing miles of the impassable southern alps that bisect New Zealand and further ranges to the north. It is a means to an end. A short-cut. A journey…