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Singapore: The Lion City

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November 22, 2024

A famous modern city-state, steeped in history

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July 7, 2019

Prelude to Aspiring: Or, what to do when there's no snow in paradise

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June 18, 2019

'Tossed by the Wind': The rare and remarkable creatures of Tiritiri Matangi (Part Two)

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June 6, 2019

'Tossed by the Wind': The rare and remarkable creatures of Tiritiri Matangi (Part One)

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May 27, 2019

The Sanctuary Mountain

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May 23, 2019

The Catlins, continued

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May 14, 2019

The Catlins: An overlooked corner of New Zealand

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April 24, 2019

Kars and Ani

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April 10, 2019

Climbing Mount Ararat: Borders, bears and rockets

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March 20, 2019

The Enduring Lure of Egypt (Part 2)

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March 12, 2019

The Enduring Lure of Egypt (Part 1)

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February 26, 2019

New Zealand's Post-Colonial Housing Crisis (a second post on housing)

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February 19, 2019

Why don't we have affordable barn houses in New Zealand? A plan to beat the housing emergency

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February 3, 2019

From Heritage, to Glass and Girders? Notes on Invercargill’s Downtown Renewal Scheme

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February 1, 2019

City of Museums: Invercargill, and its port of Bluff

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January 24, 2019

Sounding out Dunedin

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January 16, 2019

Dunedin and the Taieri Gorge Railway

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January 8, 2019

No Doubts about Doubtful Sound

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January 6, 2019

Very Viking Shetlands

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January 1, 2019

Cromwell and the Paradise Valley: or, Xmas in New Zealand

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December 23, 2018

Floating to Fingal’s Cave: The Three Isles Tour of Iona, Mull and Staffa

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December 19, 2018

Raasay, and Calum's Road

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December 12, 2018

A Trip to the Orkneys

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November 20, 2018

Cyprus, the island that copper's named after

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October 22, 2018

From Brexit to Break-Up? Mrs May's Ulster Fry

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