Elle Hunt is a London-based commissioning and communities editor at Guardian Cities
One of the many unspoken rules of British life is that when one is drinking at the pub with others, one buys rounds. For the naive New Zealander, it's stressful AF, says Elle Hunt.
Warm, dry homes are a standard, not a luxury – Kiwi renters should expect nothing less, writes Elle Hunt.
The metric system might seem obvious to us, but resisting it has started to become a point of extreme pride for Americans.
There are few things New Zealanders love more than walking around the city without shoes or socks on. And now, maybe, the Northern Hemisphere is ready to get onboard.
New Zealand's binge drinking culture is notoriously bad, but could change be on the horizon for this little country of boozers?
'This is a portrait of a kiwi film director Taika Waititi NOT Jose Mourinho YOU MUPPET!!!'
Meghan and Harry have welcomed a new human into the world. And the UK media could hardly be happier, reports Elle Hunt from London.
Elle Hunt composes a love letter to New Zealand's online auction site, with which foreign counterparts cannot compare
Living in a city polluted with dirty air is among many facts of life that Londoners pay for, not just with money but with our health as well.
It's all relative, sure, but New Zealand's media has clearly done a far better job at holding the line against Islamophobia than their UK and Australian counterparts, writes Elle Hunt from London.
Is it a bird, is it a plane? Online sleuth Elle Hunt fires up the search engines.
'Kissing', 'necking', 'snogging', 'making out' – there are a plethora of ways to describe the locking of lips. But Elle Hunt's favourite is one that's deeply unique to the Kiwi vocabulary.
In the latest instalment of her series on life as a NZ expat, Elle Hunt recounts the tedious minutiae of flying halfway across the world.
With the March 29 Brexit deadline bearing down on the country at an alarming speed, it's hard not to wonder whether staying in Britain is really worth it.
You might be excited about IKEA's possible (though far from guaranteed) arrival on this country's shores, but just wait until the first time you try to assemble a chest of drawers.
In the middle of last decade, one man dominated our local music television. Then he disappeared. Elle Hunt tracks down Joel Defries, and talks to him about life as a Kiwi TV star.
When she lived in New Zealand, Elle Hunt never really understood the fuss about Christmas. That all changed when she moved to London.
Flying almost anywhere in Europe for the price of a mid-price restaurant meal? If there was ever a reason to move to the UK, budget airlines are it.
Almost every Kiwi who moves to London tries to soften the blow to family and friends by claiming they'll regularly return. But is it realistic?
In 1999, Elle Hunt's dad convinced her that New Radical's 'You Get What You Give' was actually by U2. Today, she revisits the life-changing moment she realised he was wrong.
In her fourth Elleswhere column about life as an expat New Zealander in London, Elle Hunt navigates the lost connections of a 12 hour time difference.
In her third Elleswhere column about life as an expat New Zealander in London, Elle Hunt begs folks back home to spare a thought for a Whittaker's fanatic stuck with no supply.
In her second Elleswhere column about life as an expat New Zealander in London, Elle Hunt writes about seeing the city through the eyes of people who are just passing through.
London-based Elle Hunt, along with just about every New Zealander living and working overseas, is routinely asked if and when she might return home.
A displaced Wellingtonian yearns for the coffee culture she once derided.
In the middle of last decade, one man dominated our local music television. Then he disappeared. Elle Hunt talks to Joel Defries about life as a Kiwi TV star, and what he's been doing since.
