Otago Daily Times: Travel

Like Paris, with palm trees

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:25:00 +1300

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.

Captured by the Colorado

Robin Charteris — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:25:00 +1300

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

Hot sun, cool water

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:25:00 +1300

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

Tour de food and fun

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:29:00 +1200

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

Music and Tuscan magic

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:29:00 +1200

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

Nature even better from a lodge

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:55:00 +1200

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