Dimension Festival 2023- Northland

Dimension Festival is a boutique music and arts festival where you quite literally enter a new dimension. Music plays non-stop for 72 hours in this dead zone of cell coverage. Being able to disconnect, but… View Post

AUM Festival – NYE 2023

AUM New Year’s Festival is a 3-day, family friendly arts and music festival an hour west of Auckland. Located in South Head, it is a magical place with no cell reception. With 4 stages, a… View Post

Frida + Diego at the Auckland Art Gallery

The Auckland Art Gallery recently had an exhibit that I couldn’t miss: Frida & Diego – Art & Life in Modern Mexico. Growing up, my grandmother loved Frida and had several copies of her art… View Post

Sunsetter Food, Wine & Music Festival

Last Saturday was my first festival of the season: Sunsetter in Albany, Auckland. This day festival had humble beginnings as a food and wine festival with music as an after thought. After progressing in popularity,… View Post

Golden Lights vs Plane Sailing

The 2021-2022 summer festival season has been – weird – to say the least. New Zealand as a country changed from the Covid Alert Level System to the Traffic Light System. When this happened, different… View Post

Winetopia – Auckland 2021

Winetopia is a yearly event run in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, is known as “A Celebration of New Zealand Wine.” Cancelled last year due to Covid-19, I was excited to attend the event on a… View Post

Splore 2021

The theme of Splore Festival 2021 was MOTHER. The annual arts & musical festival was postponed a month due to Covid-19 Lockdowns. This year was a much better experience than 2019, mainly due to weather,… View Post

Cellar Doors of Alexandra Basin via New Releases Wine Tasting 2020

The Alexandra Basin is the most Southerly Wine Growing Region in the world! Central Otago takes that title in general, but the Alex sub-region is the furtherest South. With 25 vineyards in the region, I… View Post