Summer Journey series

Mahia Beach on Te Tairāwhiti (“the coast upon which the sun shines across the water”) (Photo: Getty Images)

Renée: Te Tairāwhiti blue

In the final of a special travel writing series, playwright and novelist Renée reflects on the past and ponders the future on a road trip up the East Coast.

By Renée | 12th January, 2020

Children play by the pond alongside Anjum Rahman’s maternal family home in Uttar Pradesh. Photo: author supplied

The saffron sari

Anjum Rahman reflects on returning to her place of birth at the age of 12, and on how the history of Muslims in India is being rewritten.

By Anjum Rahman | 7th January, 2020

Contributing writer

Happiness lies beyond these glass walls (Photo: Getty Images)

From 7/11s to supermarchés: The true essence of travel is at the corner store

After touring the world with his band The Phoenix Foundation, Samuel Flynn Scott has figured out the real reason we travel – to nosy around where humans buy snacks.

By Samuel Scott | 4th January, 2020

An MRT station, Singapore. Photo: Getty Images

Three days in Singapore

Writer and actress Michelle Langstone reflects on loneliness on a trip to Singapore.

By Michelle Langstone | 2nd January, 2020

Contributing writer

A sixties summer idyll (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

We’re all going on a 1960s summer holiday

Everyone else in the English-speaking world knew how to be a teenager, and did it without even looking as if they were trying. But not me.

By Linda Burgess | 27th December, 2019

Contributing writer