As you can see from the photos, Whakatane Airport looks like something out of Teletubbies or that has been built with Lego.
It’s naive and playful exterior is actually the result of Wellington architect Roger Walker and was a masterpiece of its time.
When you arrive on the tarmac, several casually-dresed attendants rush to secure the planes [...]

Photo by James Geer
Words by Adam Blakey

A Great Summer Holiday Could Be Right Under Your Nose
Melbourne in summer has got to be the most under-rated holiday city on earth. It’s hot, it’s got a bangin’ music scene and after enduring the long miserable winter the three million people who call the place home can’t [...]

Words by Kira Poskanzer
Photos by Jono Rotman
While the focus of American politics these days follows the state-to-state contests of the primaries, it’s a perfect time to visit a relatively calm Washington DC.
You can feel like a politico, though, if you stay at the Hay-Adams, the stately, classic hotel just across Lafayette Park from [...]

Photo by Matt Mueller
Words by Adam Blakely

The Tropic of Antarctica
There was a time, during the Pleistocene Age, that much of North America, Europe and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial ice. Scoping out a giant frozen river or taking in megalithic cliffscapes was as simple as jumping a woolly mammoth up to Bali [...]

Harbour Island lies off the northern end of Eleuthera, one of the many islands which make up the Bahamas. The only access to Harbour Island is by water taxi which makes the island the perfect exclusive escape without the hordes of tourists, casinos, and golf crowd, which is why the islands perfect pink sand beaches [...]

From the minute you are greeted at Dubai customs and placed in an air conditioned room with a plate of fresh croissants, dates and hot coffee, you know that your journey to the Six Senses Hideaway at Zighy Bay in Oman is going to be a special one. Once your luggage and visas have been [...]