#147 Do - experience the Tommy Thomson scenic drive from Queenstown to Glenorchy. Tommy Thomson was a mining engineer who came to the...

#141 Eat - delicious Farmhouse Brie by Evansdale. Locally owned by the Dennison family, I met son Pablo at the Evansdale factory shop at...

#136 Eat - today we popped into The Merchant of Clyde cafe in the historic Olivers for a quick lunch stop on our way home. Originally...

#133 Buy - today we popped in and met Joan at Aurum Wines, just north of Cromwell in Central Otago. Family owned vineyard and olive...

#105 Do - woolly hat, duffle coat, multiple merino layers and gumboots = ready to head to the beach! Today, on a wet and foggy Dunedin...

#101 Eat - afternoon treat of a choc-coco muggin topped with locally made Retro Organics yoghurt. Made on the Tuturau Family Farm in...

I've just crossed the ditch and arrived in Melbourne for a long weekend ✈️ A city I know well having been lucky to live here for about 5...

#76 Do - today I enjoyed the views from Puketapu's 343m summit in Palmerston. Through paddocks then a short, steep walk leading to...

#70 Buy - do a road trip to find something interesting at Indigo House in Waikouaiti. Locally owned by Julie and her daughter Rosalind,...

#64 Do - explore the ruins of the miners cottages in Welshtown in the Bendigo Historic Reserve. When gold was discovered in Otago, it...