Travel

Dunedin residents, like most New Zealanders, regard Australia as the most appealing overseas holiday destination, recently collected data shows. Australia appealed to 80% of Dunedin respondents to the Southern Cross Travel Insurance survey. Out transtasman neighbour also received the highest overall appeal ranking (77%) of any holiday destination by the more than 2000 New Zealanders surveyed.

A growing number of Kiwis are misspelling their own names on travel documents, risking being left stranded at airports or sent home by overseas authorities.

England's largest county is also one of its loveliest, as Jill Malcolm discovers in Yorkshire.

"Kiwi birds don't fly - they cycle, for 20 months, alone, on a cheap mountain bike, through dangerous countries just to get back home ... from London."