Honeymoon

Take Paris, add palm trees and a handful of fruit to the wine, swap a snaking, sunken park for the Seine and paella for steak frites, put the whole thing on the sea and you get something like Valencia.

There are uplifting experiences to be found in the depths of Arizona's Grand Canyon, writes former Otago Daily Times editor Robin Charteris. 

Water pounds into the half-hidden rock pool, thundering around the 10m-high cliffs.

Great food, great chateaux, great fun ... playwright Roger Hall cycles through the Loire Valley.

The former director of Dunedin's Arts Festival, Nicholas McBryde, reports from the music festival at Anghiari.

Wallabies on the runway. Fur seals on the shore. Champagne in the mini-bar. Gourmet with a view.