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Shipping Out

Written by Gerry Evans; published by Sarah Bennett Books. ‘In my sleep I still roar ashore with the crowd in Curacao and Lagos. I dream of mountainous seas sweeping the decks of fully laden tankers, and I encounter shipmates of

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Shipping Out

Written by Gerry Evans; published by Sarah Bennett Books. ‘In my sleep I still roar ashore with the crowd in Curacao and Lagos. I dream of mountainous seas sweeping the decks of fully laden tankers, and I encounter shipmates of

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Ask Lonely Planet

Lee and Sarah write a weekly column for the travel pages of the New Zealand Herald. Read their advice to travellers here.  

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Ask Lonely Planet

Lee and Sarah write a weekly column for the travel pages of the New Zealand Herald. Read their advice to travellers here.  

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Word on the Street

  Sarah has written fortnightly restaurant reviews for Positively Wellington Tourism’s Word on the Street online magazine since 2008. Read Word on the Street here.

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Word on the Street

  Sarah has written fortnightly restaurant reviews for Positively Wellington Tourism’s Word on the Street online magazine since 2008. Read Word on the Street here.

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All downhill on old pack track

Dominion Post, February 2012 – ‘Too soft for the Karapoti, too bold for Rimutaka Rail Trail, my sporting life is now an endless quest for the perfect stretch of single-track…’ Sarah & Lee finally ride the Rameka Track from Canaan Downs

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All downhill on old pack track

Dominion Post, February 2012 – ‘Too soft for the Karapoti, too bold for Rimutaka Rail Trail, my sporting life is now an endless quest for the perfect stretch of single-track…’ Sarah & Lee finally ride the Rameka Track from Canaan Downs

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A Cycle of Celebration

Dominion Post, March 2012 –   ‘Talk about greedy. Not content with four ski fields, spectacular wilderness tramping, a shot of adrenalin activities and proximity to superlative pinot noir, Queenstown is having a bash at becoming the epicentre of New Zealand

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A Cycle of Celebration

Dominion Post, March 2012 –   ‘Talk about greedy. Not content with four ski fields, spectacular wilderness tramping, a shot of adrenalin activities and proximity to superlative pinot noir, Queenstown is having a bash at becoming the epicentre of New Zealand

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Lonely Planet’s South Island

Visitors to the Mainland rejoice! Ain’t no way LP was forgetting you! Co-authored by Brett Atkinson, Scott Kennedy & Sarah Bennett. Buy New Zealand’s South Island here  

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Lonely Planet’s South Island

Visitors to the Mainland rejoice! Ain’t no way LP was forgetting you! Co-authored by Brett Atkinson, Scott Kennedy & Sarah Bennett. Buy New Zealand’s South Island here  

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Lonely Planet’s North Island

But wait! There’s more! For travellers heading largely to the North Island, here’s the book for you.   Sarah co-authored the first edition of this guidebook in 2010. The 2nd edition is coming soon.     Buy New Zealand’s North

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Lonely Planet’s North Island

But wait! There’s more! For travellers heading largely to the North Island, here’s the book for you.   Sarah co-authored the first edition of this guidebook in 2010. The 2nd edition is coming soon.     Buy New Zealand’s North

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Discover New Zealand

This guidebook harvests selected material from the ‘blue spine’ New Zealand guide, with particular focus on the country’s highlights. It also has a lot more gorgeous photographs than the standard guidebook.   Sarah co-authored this first edition of Discover New

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Discover New Zealand

This guidebook harvests selected material from the ‘blue spine’ New Zealand guide, with particular focus on the country’s highlights. It also has a lot more gorgeous photographs than the standard guidebook.   Sarah co-authored this first edition of Discover New

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The New Zealand Tramper’s Handbook

Yes – fun. You better believe it, ‘cause we mean it. So much that we’ve written two editions of this little feller. This incarnation came out in 2010, a fully revised version of Don’t Forget Your Scroggin, first published in 2007.

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The New Zealand Tramper’s Handbook

Yes – fun. You better believe it, ‘cause we mean it. So much that we’ve written two editions of this little feller. This incarnation came out in 2010, a fully revised version of Don’t Forget Your Scroggin, first published in 2007.

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Lets Go Camping

Written by Sarah & Lee; published by AA & Random House, 2009. We wrote this book over the summer of 2008/2009, during a 20,000-kilometre epic where we tented from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Okay, maybe not quite Bluff… ‘When the

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Lets Go Camping

Written by Sarah & Lee; published by AA & Random House, 2009. We wrote this book over the summer of 2008/2009, during a 20,000-kilometre epic where we tented from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Okay, maybe not quite Bluff… ‘When the

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