For a stopover in Hong Kong, try the Lanson Place Hotel, in the newly groovy Causeway Bay area which mixes the new (Prada, LV, Gucci) with the old and there are also great little lunch spots and old tea shops.

Photos by Henrik Tjaerby

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I recently visited Aoraki / Mount Cook on a rock climbing trip with my good friend Henrik.
The hour-long diversion from Twizel along the Mount Cook highway is stunning. The drive follows the length of Lake Pukaki, which is an intense opaque turquoise colour, I think from all the rock ground up by [...]

I know I should keep my most favourite places a secret, but this was way too cool to not share. Rather than staying at a hotel in Queenstown, I found this great rental. It’s one of seven great A-frame chalets overlooking Lake Wakatipu and 5 minutes from the centre of town. The house we stayed [...]

Leave it to Lexus to take care of all the luxuries and then some. Their most recent endeavor? Why eco-friendly living, of course. Their website Lexus hybrid living is a website dedicated to those of us with like-minded goals of living an environmentally friendly lifestyle. Hybrid Living Tours covers cities from San [...]

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A quick trip to Stockholm for the furniture fair provided a nice taste of this cool Scandinavian city. Highlights included:
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm’s beautiful museum of modern art. Favourite pieces were Alexander Calder’s The Four Elements sculpture near the entrance to the building, and his The Forest Is The Best Place gigantic three metre [...]

I may be a vegetarian but one of my pet hates is vegetarian restaurants. They’re just not necessary. Plus I had a very bad experience with one in Paris years ago which involved my meal being a plate with a mountain of grated carrot and not much else. Could have been worse. My guest’s plate [...]

I love travelling, there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think about being somewhere else. It’s an enormous world out there and fortunately, working at Ksubi, we get the opportunity to visit the fashion rat hole capitols on a regular basis but mostly we are restricted to the well trodden footpaths & nests [...]

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I recently drove down the west coast on a stormy wet day through the Gates Of Haast and over The Haast Pass. All the way along waterfalls poured down beside the road. In addition to the small number of cars making the journey, several very determined unicyclists wobbled their way towards the Gates Of Haast [...]

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Evgeni Kogan is a marketing manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, currently enjoying being a ‘re-patriot’ in Moscow, Russia. Born in St.Petersburg, Russia during the last days of disco, he lived most of his life in New Zealand and has recently made the journey back to Eastern Europe [...]

One of my favorite things to do when visiting New Zealand is crossing the Cook Strait on the Interislander Ferry from Wellington to Picton, which sits on the top of the South Island. The actual crossing over open ocean is probably only 45 minutes before you enter the magnificent Marlborough Sounds. In the past I [...]