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News
The Five Best Vineyard Getaways in Australia
Pop open a bottle of estate-grown wine at these stylish stays among the Australian vines.
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News
Highlights of an Unmapped Roadtrip of NSW
Five highlights from an Unmapped Road Trip around New South Wales.
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News
Five of the World’s Weirdest Hotels
These hotels will ensure that the destination will be just as exciting as the journey on your next holiday.
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News
Sceptic Kiwi Heading to New South Wales
Nominated to be one of five international bloggers, I promise to be entertaining and represent New Zealand responsibly. If that is possible?
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News
Nike FuelBand Tracks Your Every Step
Measure your data, such as steps, calories and distance throughout the day, against other competitors of different body types and skill levels.
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Interview /// Concrete Playground meets Lilo the Waikato
A beautiful story of the battle of depression and one man's mission to Lilo the Waikato.
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Guide
The Best Things to Do Around Auckland in January
Take advantage of the quiet city and long summer days to enjoy events, exhibitions, theatre, markets and some great films.
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Guide
Seven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around New Zealand This Autumn
From immersive moving Van Gogh artworks to two-storey labyrinths of black wool, here's where you can get your art fix around the country.
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Guide
Seven Exciting and Powerful Auckland Art Exhibitions to Step Into This Spring
From tumultuous and unsettling photography to immersive moving image projects, here's where you can get your art fix around the city.
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Guide
Ten Must-See Events at Auckland Arts Festival 2019
Auckland Arts Festival launches into its 11th year with multidimensional dance, critically acclaimed dream pop and a free sing-along waiata.
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Guide
Ten Shows, Installations and Parties to Get Amongst at Auckland Fringe Festival 2019
Auckland's favourite independent open-access arts festival is back for another year.
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Guide
The Ten Best Things to do This Labour Weekend
A much-adored folk songwriter, the largest screening of Russian films outside of the motherland, an annual geek-gathering, a Sunday session to rule them all, and the man responsible for 2013’s most ...
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Top 5 Franklin Road Christmas Lights
Concrete Playground chooses their favourites from the Franklin Road Christmas Lights
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News
Sweden’s Treehouse Hotel
The hotel has five different rooms, all of which are themed differently and offer much more than your standard bed and complementary chocolate.
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News
Japan Tourism to Offer 10,000 Free Flights to Bloggers
At last, there may be a way to put your otherwise life-crippling Facebook addiction to good use.
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News
First-Ever Space Hotel Set to Open in 2016
Space tourism set to become a reality in the next few years.
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News
21 of the World’s Most Stunning Holiday Destinations
Some of the places that truly capture the imagination around the globe.
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Restaurant
This That
57 Lorne St , Auckland City
A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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News
Corinne Vionnet’s Photo Opportunities Capture the Tourist Experience
Thousand's of observations from the tourist paparazzi come together in single, haunting images.
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