20 articles tagged with auckland
There's something rather special about returning to your homeland as a visitor. After 15 years in the UK, coming back to Auckland feels like rediscovering an old friend who's had quite the glow-up. The City of Sails has transformed into...
There's something about Auckland that reminds me of home—not Philadelphia where I currently live, but Halifax where I grew up. Maybe it's the harbor views or the way the city embraces both urban energy and natural wonder. But unlike my...
The first time I landed in Auckland, I expected just another big city—a brief stopover before heading to New Zealand's famed landscapes. How wonderfully wrong I was. Straddling two harbors with dormant volcanoes dotting its skyline, Auckland offers a photographer's...
After nearly two decades of business trips to Auckland, I've developed what my colleagues call an *unhealthy obsession* with the city's shopping scene. What began as quick gift purchases between meetings has evolved into carefully planned excursions that I now...
When my daughter and I landed in Auckland last autumn, the air carried that particular Pacific crispness that signals you've arrived somewhere special—a city where nature and urban sophistication exist in perfect equilibrium. Having visited cricket-playing nations across the globe,...