First Auckland Milkshake Review

Our first Auckland based review on Longest Drink In Town is now up.
We’ve managed to stumble onto what may very well be the worst milkshake in the universe. There is no way a worse milkshake could ever be created even if I left Earth in a spaceship and travelled for 13 to the power of [...]

Oratia? It’s over there, by Glen Eden.

If you’ve ever driven out to the Matakana Farmers’ Market, you might have found the whole thing a little overwhelming. There’s the lengthy crawl through the show-home-heavy bits of Orewa, and that giant roadworks project which is seemingly never going to get finished, and then by the time you’ve made it to Matakana there are [...]

Shops we adore: Artisan Wine Suppliers

Last time I was in Auckland, I stayed at the Elliot Street Apartments (I’ll be doing a roundup of Auckland hotels in March), which was above the Elliot Street Stables,  a very Europeany food court-ish space, with an assortment of eateries opening up onto central cobblestoned alleys with communal tables. It was a lovely space, with [...]

Make Mine Milkshake

Righto, Bronwyn and I have finally placed our first post on Longest Drink In Town.
We were traveling in the lower part of the NI over summer and for some reason now lost to the ether we decided to blog on milkshakes (look, at least we’re not posting pictures of our cats falling off chairs [...]

A Wine Day Out

After all the standing involved in the Big Day Out, I knew that I’d want something relaxing to do the day after, so I roped in an Auckland friend to act as a designated driver, rounded up some girlfriends, and we headed out of town to the vineyards of Matakana. Unfortunately, it seemed like the whole rest of Auckland had decided to do the same thing, and traffic started crawling as soon as we got to the North Shore. One of the front windows wouldn’t open, and it was scorching hot, so it was with tremendous relief that we arrived at our first destination:

Auckland vs. Wellington

A different long weekend away provides another opportunity to reexamine the age-old battle. After our first chapter, Secret Agent Robyn came down from Auckland to check out our city. This is her report…
Getting there: The airport bus runs past my place every 20 minutes. I waited for 30 minutes, but there was no sign of [...]

Wellington vs. Auckland

A long weekend away provides the perfect opportunity to re-examine the age-old battle. In our first chapter, our agent goes to Auckland. In our next chapter, an agent will go to Auckland…
Airport access: Getting to Wellington Airport, from Thorndon via a quick stop in Hataitai to pick up my suitcase took less than half [...]