The iconic Wellington Cable Car celebrates its 114th birthday today. This milestone in Kiwi engineering began service in 1902 and was devised to connect the then-new suburb of Kelburn with the CBD below. The track was 785 metres long, and climbed 120 metres from Lambton Quay to Upland Road, passing over three bridges and through
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Ahhh, France. The very mention of it conjures up so many romantic images: its legacy of exquisite wines and fine cuisine, the Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum, fashionable ladies with sensual accents, and the dashing young men… …urinating out of moving cars. Last week Angela Chilton was traveling on SH6 toward Milford Sound behind a
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If you live in New Zealand, and it’s summer, hosting a barbecue is considered almost a civic duty. And luckily it’s not too hard to do – some packs of sausages and chops, a couple of trays of beer, and you’ve fulfilled the obligation. But for those who aspire to slightly higher culinary heights, the
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In April 1924 New Zealand’s first motorised schoolbus service began, with the acquisition of three specially constructed Model T Fords by Piopio School, located south west of Te Kuiti in the North Island’s Waitomo district. Now, in honour of this pioneering moment, a replica bus is being built. Once upon a time, before the horseless
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Summer’s here and the time is right for… well, outdoor festivals and concerts. At this time of year UK and US bands of bygone decades can either sit at home where it’s cold, weathering the financial drought and contemplating their tax dilemmas, or tour sunny Australia and New Zealand. These giants once strode the earth,
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Here we are, on the eve of New Year’s Eve. 2015 and all it contains is about to become a memory. So Thursday night, where will you be? A family evening out with the kids, partying with friends, a quiet wine and some TV with your significant other, or catching a show and doing the
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On this day in 1889, NZ’s very own Eiffel Tower opened for business. Only eight and a half months earlier, Gustave Eiffel had unveiled his elegant namesake as the centrepiece of the Paris Exhibition Universelle. It was pure in concept, ingeniously engineered, monumentally modern, and at 300m the world’s tallest tower (holding this record until
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The farmers’ market was, in a pre-twentieth century civilisation, the best and in many places the only way to buy fresh produce. In small towns, they were your weekly shop, in cities your local greengrocer would source their stock directly from the growers. With the advent of the supermarket the number of middle men between
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About 180km north of Christchurch on SH1 is one of New Zealand’s most popular tourist stops. The attraction is not the small town itself, although with its backdrop of mountain ranges there is plenty of coastal charm. Those ranges are a stray branch of the southern alps which travels east, descends to a brief plateau
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For anyone wanting to experience both New Zealand and exotic wildlife while in Christchurch, Willowbank Reserve is a rich experience that’s easily accessible from the city. There’s a diverse range of species on display, with lots of information on the animals’ behaviour, ecology, and the state of their habitat and population in the wild. Everything
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Other international enquiries. Find your nearest New Zealand rental cars branch.
