Latest Travel

• How to avoid these six common travel disasters

  

  When you’re planning a trip abroad, it is unlikely your first thought (or even second or third) is about what could go wrong.

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• Video: Could asylum seekers en route to NZ get a visa on arrival in Aus?

  

  Australian home affairs minister Peter Dutton insists asylum seekers who get to New Zealand can then travel to Australia without first applying for a visa, but…

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• Video: Vegans and vegetarians rejoice as Air New Zealand serve pseudo meat burger

  

  Air New Zealand are back at it with their quirky, entertaining and – evidently – successful marketing.

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• Video: A sweet, simplistic take on planning a Kiwi trip

  

  This young traveller has some pretty handy hints for you.

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• Handy tips for road tripping through Europe

  

  You may have heard that VW are to launch a new, electric version of the Kombi and the news got the DUInsure team thinking about campervan holidays, road tripping and the ideal route around Europe.

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• Moving abroad: The top five cities South Africans should consider

  

  The best places for those of you who are upping sticks.

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• Shipping your car to New Zealand

  

  There’s lots to consider when shipping a car to New Zealand. Here’s a quick run-down of how it’s done – directly from the experienced professionals at AutoShippers.

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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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