Travel is awesome. But sometimes it can also mean too many late nights, early mornings, overnight bus journeys and sweaty dorm rooms leading to constant tiredness. We share some great tips on how to make sure you’re better rested when away from home.
A handy guide to all the Australian ski resorts and their opening dates for 2018.
How to set up your snowboard stance - everything you need to know including stance width, binding angles, positioning your bindings on your snowboard and highback angle.
Queenstown is not just about skiing and snowboarding. There are many world-class mountain bike trails, and whether you're into downhill, enduro or cross country, you're going to be spoilt for choice!
Rude Rock Downhill MTB track - a top to bottom run.
No matter how you put it, when you hear the word ‘Custom’ it conjures up images of something special. But are custom snowboards really worth it?
Cardrona Alpine Resort is a great winter attraction but did you know you can have an awesome time there in summer too? Take a visit to check out the spectacular views, hiking, mountain carts and mountain biking.
The Clay Cliffs are a couple of hours drive from Queenstown and well worth the visit. The landscape is dramatically different from the rest of the area and the formations are a geological wonder. Here's everything you need to know about the Clay Cliffs in Omarama and how to get there.
Welcome Rock Trails is a private mountain bike area also offering hiking and high-country secluded accommodation. A great place to getaway for the weekend and enjoy nature at its finest!
Welcome Rock Trails is a private MTB area that offers a 27km loop in the alpine high country near Garston, Southland NZ. If you want to experience kiwi wilderness at its finest, grab your MTB and head to Welcome Rock!
You want to travel more but that annoying little thing called your job gets in the way! Here are a few ideas that may get you thinking a little differently.
Balancing work with your desire to travel - how can it be achieved?
I've always snowboarded in mixed groups (almost always skewed towards males) so the thought of just riding with girls has never really crossed my mind. I wasn't even sure it was an appealing prospect, but I believe in the 'don't knock it till you try it' philosophy so I looked into it all a little bit further.
The Nevis Bungy Jump and the Nevis Swing are two of the main attractions in Queenstown. New Zealand is a country of countless adventures anyway, but these two are an experience you will probably never forget.
In 1947 Coronet Peak in Queenstown opened with just a rope tow pulling keen skiers up a mountain, the first commercial ski field to open in New Zealand.
Seventy years have passed and the ski field is now running eight lifts, welcomes thousands of guests on a fine weather day, has the largest snow-making system in the Southern Hemisphere, boasts the longest day on the snow with first tracks through to night ski, and has come to be loved as one of the best ski experiences New Zealand has to offer.
We've had the dream to travel much much more over the years and one of the ways to realise that dream is to invest our savings. We haven't done anything outrageous, just putting a little away on a regular basis into shares or property.
