Category: Travel

Christchurch Pride, the South Island’s biggest Pride Festival, has become a destination event for North Islanders taking a week off to enjoy some southern hospitality. When you’re not at a Pride event, North Canterbury’s Waipara district provides a plethora of must-visit destinations, producing some of the country’s best wines. Here are express’ top sipping suggestions, […]

Lyttelton is an eccentric port town on the outskirts of Christchurch that has a population made up of equal parts hipsters, hippies and rugged dock workers. They live in harmony, bonded by passions for great food, craft beer, buying local and supporting locals. It’s hard not to fall in love with a place so rainbow-friendly, […]

From the moment we put our bags down, Oahu (Honolulu) is a sensory feast. You can feel, smell and taste Hawaii’s spirit all around you. In just 48 hours, Oliver Hall is seduced by the island’s epic variety of attractions and doesn’t want to fly home. We land in Honolulu with Hawaiian Airlines for a […]

Less than three months before Sydney WorldPride 2023 kicks off, Matt Fistonich explores the attractions of Australia’s crown jewel! 2023 will be the first WorldPride event to ever be held in the Southern Hemisphere, and where more appropriate than the country that brought the world the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Priscilla Queen of the […]

Queenstown is New Zealand’s number one international tourist destination, but sometimes for a local, it can be easy to take it’s stunning scenery, award-winning restaurants and any-weather activity options for granted. But now with a second Pride festival (Adrenaline) announced for our bustling mountain town’s Summer – it’s time to remind yourself why the tourists […]

From a tourist town that has never looked so serene (Lake Tekapo) to meeting the queer community in the South Island’s most eclectic town (Ōamaru) – there’s nothing like a Kiwi roadie! Pre-covid there were times we passed through Lake Tekapo and it looked as busy as Queenstown, attracting tourists with its Instagram-able Church of […]

So synonymous with students, it’s easy to forget to revisit Ōtepoti (Dunedin) once we enter the working world, but a trip South to take in their Pride festival reminds Oliver Hall that our thriving Southern city has so much to offer. As well as shielding us from the worst of the pandemic, closed borders reminded […]