Afternoon stride back towards St. Clair beach at low tide yesterday. Recent erosion following a storm has changed the beach again, the...

Celebrating International Pinot Noir Day! Central Otago is the world’s southern-most commercial wine growing region, with pinot noir...

Lake Dunstan. I’ve been back and forth to Central like a yo-yo the last few weeks since getting back, and never tire of this view as I...

I think it’s about time to say au revoir to France (having been home a while now...) but one last local travel post is exploring a French...

Our little Citroën seemed to love taking us the ‘off the beaten track route’ - we ended up being guided down small roads between Bordeaux...

When in France....this was actually a slight local fail as Saint-Émilion is known for producing a macaron recipe from 1620 that was made...

One of the beautiful little churches we found along the way in our explores of Bordeaux. The Saint-Étienne church in the small village...

Although we missed seeing underground Saint-Émilion, I thought we could check out the view from the highest point...so I did a sneaky...

Walking up the cobbled streets of Saint-Émilion, one of the villages we explored in Bordeaux, close to where we stayed. The Saint-Émilion...

Château Carbonneau on the hillsides of Pessac-sur-Dordogne and built around 1860, it was inherited by a French/Kiwi family in the 1990’s....