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Five of the best 2017

Bike wine tour, Martinborough, New Zealand

My top five 2017 posts #livemusic #festivals #travel #wine #food

Suburbs of Sydney IV

Sydney Harbour Bridge from Dawes Point

  TICKET TO (NORTH) RYDE North Ryde is not one of Sydney’s glamour locations, but the Ryde area is the third oldest colonial settlement- after Sydney and Parramatta. Today North Ryde is more about the future than the past. The steep ascent from the metro station is a metaphor for rises of technology that takes

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Railway to heaven

Northern Explorer, New Zealand

New Zealand’s Northern Explorer Arriving at Auckland’s oddly named Britomart Station (yes, it sounds like a cheap goods shop)  smugly bolstered by my ‘local knowledge’ with plenty of time to spare, I approached the service desk.