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The Easy Trick That Could Save Kiwis Thousands!

The Easy Trick That Could Save Kiwis Thousands!

It sounds like one of those pestilential clickbait ads on social media: One easy trick guaranteed to keep kiwis out of quarantine! In this case, though, knowing about an obscure bit of fine print in Queensland’s “travel bubble” with New Zealand can save Aussie-bound Kiwis, not just a couple

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Tourist Towns Dying While the Government Fiddles

Tourist Towns Dying While the Government Fiddles

We heard this week that the Labour government is going to sort out the problem of New Zealand having no labourers to pick the fruit and veg this upcoming season. Their response is too little and too late, unfortunately, and fully intertwined with their urgent desire to control businesses by

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Labour Forget Where They Came From

Labour Forget Where They Came From

The Labour Party may be useless at most things they do but one thing they are excellent at is acting like arrogant third-termers. It’s kind of weird to see people like Woods, Twyford et al behaving like entitled prats from just their first few days in the job. But

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Scott Morrison Thinks an NZ Travel Bubble Could Help

Scott Morrison Thinks an NZ Travel Bubble Could Help

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be talking the right talk when it comes to potentially opening up some areas of New Zealand with some Australian regions. Morrison made the announcement following a series of meetings on Thursday and Friday last week. “ScoMo” said the issue came up on

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Post-COVID Travel to NZ High on the List for Indians & Filipinos

Post-COVID Travel to NZ High on the List for Indians & Filipinos

Eleanor Wenman asiamediacentre.org.nz How are people feeling about travel in a post-COVID world? A new report examines travel confidence, a changing travel industry, and top destinations for more than 10,000 people surveyed across 17 countries. It will come as no surprise that globally, people’s confidence to

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Let Me Out of Here

Let Me Out of Here

So we’ve done it. We have got COVID under control. We have no community transmission and only 18 active cases, all in quarantine, caught at the border. We have done what very few other countries have managed to do. We can truly describe New Zealand as COVID free. This

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Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya, Tourism New Zealand?
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Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya, Tourism New Zealand?

Press Release: ACT Party “Advertising by Tourism South Australia on New Zealand television shows the gulf in proactiveness between New Zealand and Australia when it comes to getting the economy restarted,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “While Tourism New Zealand cries ‘do something, New Zealand,’ and says it is

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Hey Kelvin, it’s Queenstown Calling, They Say They Miss You.

Hey Kelvin, it’s Queenstown Calling, They Say They Miss You.

We hear a lot about the abysmal standards of the legacy media. One sided opinion articles pretending to be factual commentaries abound. Silly little so-called ‘journalists’, whining about how racist their last latte was or manufacturing angst about imaginary slights; all designed to rark up the offenderatti and generate clicks.

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Take a Tour: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Take a Tour: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Today’s tour is of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.  Wikipedia tells us: The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly

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Take a Tour: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

Take a Tour: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Or perhaps a tomb? This one also has lots of art on the walls. Today’s tour is of the Tomb

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Take a Tour: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Take a Tour: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Since we were in Amsterdam yesterday, let’s pop along the road to the Van Gogh Museum.  Wikipedia tells us: The

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Take a Tour: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Take a Tour: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Today’s tour is of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.  Wikipedia tells us: The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts

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The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth

I was fortunate to have done most of my globe trotting when I was young. A few trips to Europe, mostly by train in my teens and early twenties, followed by a couple of years living in Hong Kong gave me plenty of opportunity for travel, and by the time

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Take a Tour: Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Take a Tour: Pergamon Museum, Berlin

As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Today’s tour is of the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.  Wikipedia tells us: The Pergamon Museum (German: Pergamonmuseum) is situated on the

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Take a Tour: Chernobyl

Take a Tour: Chernobyl

As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous disaster site?  No protective clothing is required. (Unlike a visit to your local supermarket.) Today’s tour is of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.  Wikipedia tells

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