Month: February 2014
Newstalk ZB Travel – Feb 22
On Saturday February 15, Mike Yardley’s weekly radio travel segment on Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame Show focuses on Fiordland’s front-door of Lake Te Anau. www.newstalkzb.co.nz Use Te Anau as the best positioned base to explore the multitude of scenic wonders and experiences in Fiordland National Park. Milford Sound, Doubtful Sound, the Te Anau Glow worm Caves and… Read More ›
The Press- News column Feb 18
A Poisonous Wrong. As a ridiculously precocious and defiant young St. Albans boy, I smoked a cigarette for the first time in my life, on my fourth birthday. Seated in my grandfather’s car, after sneaking into it, I gave myself a rather rogue birthday gift, by helping myself to the packet on the dashboard, lighting… Read More ›
Newstalk ZB Travel – Feb 15
On Saturday February 15, Mike Yardley’s weekly radio travel segment on Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame Show focuses on the rise and rise of Lake Tekapo. www.newstalkzb.co.nz Tekapo’s world-recognised status as a Dark Sky Reserve, the stunning turquoise hue of the lake, stirring walks and mountain bike trails, the alpine hot pools, cruising the lake and the iconic… Read More ›
The Press-News column Feb 11
Cooking up a storm. It’s pretty staggering that one fire-brand feminist managed to cut a swath through every major newspaper on Saturday. Massey University taxation academic, Deborah Russell has lashed out at Air New Zealand’s “degrading, objectifying, sexualised” safety video, shot in the Cook Islands with Sports Illustrated swimwear models. Would this grizzling Grizelda be… Read More ›
Newstalk ZB Travel – Feb 8
On Saturday February 8, Mike Yardley’s weekly radio travel segment on Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame Show focuses on the trending destination of Kotor, Montenegro. www.newstalkzb.co.nz Unfailingly romantic, rich in Venetian architecture, rampaged by a roll-call of rulers, suffused in Mediterranean magic and only declared an independent nation 8 years ago! Follow the weblink for full details on exploring Kotor,… Read More ›
The Press-News column Feb 3
Taking Self-service to a whole new level. Are self-service checkouts tempting a lot of shoppers to turn into opportunist thieves? The latest British consumer behaviour study reveals 20% of shoppers regularly go rogue and rort the self-scanning system. In the USA, two grocery chains have recently ditched the DIY checkouts, on the back of mass-pilfering…. Read More ›
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