What to do in Auckland for free
Here is our pick of the best of the free things in Auckland. We have deliberately picked spots from far out west, east and north, as well as some of...
Getting Lost - the blog
Getting Lost started out as a travel blog in 2015. James and I had just rekindled our relationship and we were adventuring like never before with our then 6, 7 and 8 year old daughters. I started documenting it all on a blog called Getting Lost. A few of you followed us and you asked us how we found all these places. So we made a game with directions to get you off the beaten track. On the blog are hundreds of our adventures around Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Fiji over the last 10 years and of course, how it all began.
- All
- Abel Tasman
- Auckland
- Bay of Plenty
- Cambridge
- Canterbury
- Central Otago
- Christchurch
- Coromandel Peninsula
- Cromwell
- Dunedin
- Glenorchy
- Gold Coast
- Hamilton
- Hanmer Springs
- Hawera
- Hawkes Bay
- Invercargill
- Kapiti Coast
- Katikati
- Marlborough Sounds
- Matauri Bay
- Melbourne
- Milford Sound
- Mornington Peninsula
- Napier
- Nelson
- New Plymouth
- New South Wales
- Northland
- Palmerston North
- Queenstown
- Raglan
- Random Musings On Life
- Rotorua
- Ruapehu
- Singapore
- Southland
- Sydney
- Taranaki
- Taupo
- Tauranga
- Te Anau
- Tirau
- Waitomo
- Wellington
- West Coast - South Island
Watch the sunrise at Milford Beach
The best spot to watch the sunrise in Auckland has to be Milford Beach. Watching the sun come up behind Rangitoto Island and slowly fill the sky with colour is...
Mount Eden - the best place to climb a mountain in Auckland
Mount Eden has recently been closed off to vehicles which makes this mountain climb even better than it has been before as pedestrian’s can now walk freely up the wide...
Maraetai - the best place for a Sunday drive
Maraetai is easternmost suburb of greater Auckland and not only the best place to head for a Sunday drive it is also home to the best dad joke from my...
Kauri Point - Auckland’s last undiscovered beach
James and I have argued about writing about Kauri Point for some time. The point of an undiscovered beach James argues is that no one discovers it and writing about...
Exploring the coast of ghosts at Whatipu
With a moniker like the “coast of ghosts” you know before you get there that Whatipu is going to feel a little different than your average west coast beach and...