New Zealand Week 2 – Friday, Saturday & Sunday

I good 4-hour power sleep, crappy Intercontinental breakfast, settle the bill, bid good-byes and then catch a taxi to Wellington Airport. Before catching my flight, I load up on ludicrously expensive, yet ludicrously comfortable “Icebreaker” t-shirts and jim-jams for the family. From Queenstown, straight to Gibbston Valley for a 76-wine blind tasting of recent releases [...]

New Zealand Week 2 – Wednesday & Thursday

The second day of the Conference. Downstairs at the Intercontinental Hotel, I suffer the second horrendous excuse of a breakfast: egg yolk glued to unwashed plates, spicy sausages from anything but a pig, stale baked beans and gristle with a hint of bacon. Even my coffee is poured by a surly waiter, miffed at being [...]

New Zealand Week 2 – Monday & Tuesday

The second week of New Zealand begins in Martinborough. This Monday morning, I am due to be taken into the air so that I can take some aerial shots of the vineyards, but alas the clouds conspire to keep my feet firmly on the ground and so I spend the morning catching up on e-mails [...]

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