Mount Ruapehu

PaperPlane | September 26th, 2007

Photo by Karen Jousiffe & Mark Deane
This was taken on Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand September 2005. It took us one hour to hike with our snowboards to the top of the volcano to see the crater lake, and five minutes to snowboard down! Definitely worth it for the view and the ride!

Miscellaneous, New Zealand, Oceania

Barcelona

PaperPlane | September 18th, 2007

Words Morgan Campbell
Photos Alberto Polo
Where as some cities have a frown-inducing bustle, Barcelona has more of a smile-sparking shuffle. The perfect place to enjoy the splendor and variety that a world class city has to offer while enjoying the wind down that you experience from an island holiday. Barcelona is currently hailed as one of [...]

Barcelona, Europe, Miscellaneous, Spain

Dungeness by Mark Smith

Guest Contributor | September 15th, 2007

Dungeness is brilliant and completely bonkers, helped by the fact you can get there by a miniature train. There’s not much there apart from a nuclear power plant, a pub and some random structures. It’s out on the Kent coast, feels weirdly like the west coast of New Zealand and straight out of a David [...]

Europe, Miscellaneous, United Kingdom

Hong Kong

PaperPlane | September 8th, 2007

Words Dan Jones
Photo Carby Tuckwell
Crammed on a piece of rock in China’s Pearl River estuary is one of the world’s most unique cities. A mash of queasy colours and screeching neon, twisting overpasses and shopping malls, Hong Kong is part ancient China, part fading British colonialism and part something else entirely. Ever since the tiny [...]

Asia, China, Hong Kong, Miscellaneous

Millbrook Resort Spa

Murray Bevan | September 4th, 2007

For most holidaymakers in Queenstown the rush of adrenalin from bungee jumping and shotover-jetting is exactly what they’re after. For the rest of us who are keen to relax with the crisp mountain air, clear blue skies, wine and fresh food you can’t go past an hour or two at the Millbrook Resort Spa.
Millbrook [...]

New Zealand, Oceania, Queenstown