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• Five ways to prepare well for your next overseas trip

  

  Heading abroad for an extended period of time, whether you are a first time traveller or a seasoned adventurer, can lead to a big headache before you depart.

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• Video: Wingless Kiwi bird takes flight with Air New Zealand

  

  Another cracking piece of marketing material from the folks at Air New Zealand, who have enlisted the services of a talking Kiwi this time around.

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• Bureaucratic blunder snubs British passport holders in NZ

  

  A bureaucratic irregularity has seen backpackers from the British Channel Islands and the Isle of Man rejected for New Zealand working holiday visas.

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• Gallery: New Zealand’s top bakeries – go on, treat yo’self…

  

  A recent survey revealed the two best bakeries in New Zealand.

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• Five outrageous travel fails

  

  Very few holidays ever go completely smoothly, but sometimes things can go very badly wrong!

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• Choosing Holiday Accommodation for You and Your Family

  

  Travelling is undisputedly a lot of fun and more importantly, full of enriching experiences. How you travel though, depends on your status.

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• Three top tips for avoiding tourist traps

  

  When it comes to travelling abroad, it can be easy to fall into the same tourist traps as everyone else.

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• Oktoberfest done wrong

  

  Ever dreamed of getting sloshed on steins at the biggest Volksfest in the world? Six million attendees, beer halls, carnival rides, endless bratwurst… When you finally make it to this big German bash, it wouldn’t be surprising if you get so excited (read: drunk) that you f%&k it all up. Here’s how…

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• Surf’s up with Stoke

  

  You may not know this, but the Beach Boys never surfed. One of the Beach Boys dabbled, the drummer Dennis Wilson, but he was also a friend of Charles Manson’s for a while, so you could say that his surf pedigree is equal to his being­pals­with­the­worst­person­ever pedigree.

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• Barcelona: A bit of everything

  

  When planning a vacation, you usually need to choose: city or beach? Activities or culture? Fast­paced adventure or leisurely meander? Luckily in Barcelona that needn’t be the case because with a few right turns, you really can have the best of all worlds.

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• Pamplona: It’s Ernest’s Party, And He’ll Cry If He Wants To

  

  Hemingway’s self-importance led him to believe he’d ruined Pamplona. In 1925 Ernest Hemingway stayed in Pamplona on his third of nine visits to the festivals of San Fermines. The 1925 visit was of particular importance as it spawned the events that would shape the oftentimes-autobiographical novel, The Sun Also Rises, which you may also know as Fiesta for some reason.

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• Pirate parties and ships ahoy – Croatia Sailing

  

  Why hello, sunshine. If you’re still looking for a summer trip, look no further than the glistening shores of the Adriatic coast.

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• Travel: The Best Ways to Tour a City

  

  You will find legions of tourists like yourself trying to find the best way to tour a city. There are many obstacles presented by this urge to experience a new region.

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• Travel Deals! Spice it up in Morocco

  

  The Spice Girls weren’t wrong when they sang ‘Colours of the world. Spice up your life.’ Perhaps they were singing about the wonders of Morocco?

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• UK newspaper votes New Zealand as world’s best country

  

  New Zealanders know that the Land of the Long White Cloud is the best in all the world, and now we’ve been backed up by readers of the UK’s Telegraph newspaper.

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• Istanbul like a local – exploring the city’s gems before ANZAC Day

  

  Getting to know the city in a short time is near impossible so we’ve enlisted the help of local and Travel Talk tour guide, Mustafa Kurt, to share his favourite hangouts and hidden gems. Çamlica Hill – As the highest […]

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• Watch! How to hitchhike through New Zealand

  

  Youtube travellers Scott and Ally regularly document their travels around the world, along with tips and tricks, and this time they’re giving hitchhiking a go. We’re not convinced it’s the safest of options, but when in Rome! Or Ohau, in […]

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• Aussie motoring duo review new Ford Ranger in New Zealand

  

  The Mighty Car Mods lads took to the Land of the Long White Cloud, at the behest of Ford, to put the Ranger to the test across some of the toughest terrain in the planet.

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• Vitamin D deficient? Egypt is for sun seekers!

  

  If your skin is anything like mine, it’s so pasty and white that it appears worryingly translucent at this time of year in the UK.

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• Watch: South African sailors explore Great Barrier Island

  

  South African yachting couple Brent Grimbeek and Ana Hill are sailing around the world on their catamaran Impi, and made a stop at Great Barrier Island in New Zealand, as well as a few other places around the Land of […]

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