Oh how times have changed since my sister and I were dressed in matching smocked frocks made especially for a day at the Hawkes Bay A&P Show! The Friday of Labour Weekend is Hawkes Bay Anniversary day. A 4-day weekend ushered in by the annual A&P Show. Brilliant. (I didn’t realise until recent years that [...]
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Nude calendars and the A&P Show
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Naughty balloon boy puts Ft Collins on the map
While the furore swirls over the missing boy in the balloon who supposedly flew off from his parents back yard in a homemade helium-filled balloon, Ft Collins Tourism must be stoked. I mean what did any one know about Fort Collins? And quite frankly, who cared? I just did a little Googling and it made [...]
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Prime Minister John Key’s Letterman blooper
New Zealand’s prime minister did a great job even though David Letterman had a power thing going by having him stand in the middle of the set rather than sit on the couch. He also quipped to his muse Paul Shaffer that he didn’t know what John Key was there for as he did his [...]
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The Hotel Matchmaker will hook you up in California
I have been a fan of Joie de Vivre hotels for a few years now. They have about 35 very different, boutique, brand new, old and rustic, quirky properties mainly in San Francisco, but more scattered around California including one with sweeping views of the Big Sur coast, a couple in wine country and 3 [...]
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The chocolate tour of Wellington
If you were a chocolate, what kind would you be? Calling all chocolate fiends – fancy seeing, doing and tasting something a little different on your visit to New Zealand’s capital city, then how about embarking on a Chocolate Tour of Wellington – and find the answer to that question! Wild About Wellington runs all [...]
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Look what a tweet can do!
When in trouble, tweet. I was in Singapore a couple of days ago on my way through to London to start a Rail Europe 8-day chug through Belgium, France and Switzerland. (You can expect much blogging) This was my room: a cheap as chips room kinda far from anywhere, and let’s be frank, kinda sad. [...]
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Crazy Las Vegas: Bare Pool Lounge
Love the T-shirt at Bare – the adults’ only pool lounge at the Mirage in Las Vegas! All the clubs/bars/lounges over here seem to have one-word names. It must be hard to come up with them I reckon, and you’d be forgiven for thinking Bare at Mirage is just another one-word watering hole. But unlike [...]
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Cirque du Soleil – Dralion
Wow – there’s only a few days to go, so if you haven’t been to the supertop at Alexandra Park in Auckland to see Dralion, then what have you been doing?! I went last night and it was brilliant. Cirque du Soleil shows always are. I’ve seen 7 of them now. Five in Las Vegas [...]
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Crazy Las Vegas: a 3 minute overview
So my reason for being finally went to air this morning. Yippeee! Ardent fans of this illustrous blog will know that I was in Las Vegas having a right old time learning blackjack, sashaying with Elvis, ogling enormous hotels, drinking a cocktail on a beach in the desert and firing machine guns and a Glock [...]
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Foot torture at the Fish Foot Spa!
If you’re up for something quirky and a little fear-factor then try this: a freaky fish-eating foot spa. Fish spa therapy is the next big thing in the quest to make us young and smooth of skin and I was keen to dip my toe in the water, so to speak, and try it out. [...]
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