News from the road - Discover Japan - April 2025 For the second year in a row, our ‘Discover Japan’ group has got our timing perfect, with magnificent cherry blossoms in full bloom. Such [...]

Photo Competition 2024 We had some great entries for our 2024 photo competition. So many good shots to choose from!  The winner is Mark Frickleton for his moody picture from Antarctica. You can see all [...]

News from the road - Chase the Northern Lights - December 2024 Our journey began in Oslo, where one of the highlights was visiting Frogner Park to marvel at the sculptures of Gustav Vigeland. [...]

News from the road - Antarctica November 2024 The ultimate bucket-list trip to the remotest continent.  Striking landscapes, icy seascapes and polar weather.  Fascinating wildlife.  A thought-provoking learning programme on board a comfortable modern [...]

News from the road - Laos by Pandaw rivership - October 2024 Our tour started with a couple of nights in Singapore, a day out visiting the Joo Chiat area and the East Coast, [...]

News from the road - Marquesas by passenger freighter - August 2024 Looking back on our 12 days aboard the passenger freighter Aranui 5 the expression ‘he tangata, he tangata, he tangata’ springs to [...]

News from the road - Ireland - August/September 2024 One island but two countries, sharing beautiful landscapes, a long and complex history and a love for storytelling.  Our tour around the Emerald Isle packed [...]

News from the road - Alpine walks in Europe - August 2024 This tour just finished on a very hot day in Munich having started nearly three weeks earlier in Zurich. In between Switzerland [...]

News from the road - Namibia & Botswana - June 2024 Truly an experience of a lifetime.  Our group packed endless adventures into our recent tour of southern Africa, and we were left with [...]

News from the road - Japan - April 2024 Our ‘Discover Japan’ group has just had a wonderful tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We were so fortunate that Mother Nature played [...]

News from the road - India - March 2024 Incredible India.  It engages all your senses with a riot of colour, movement, sound and smells, and of course delicious-tasting food. Our group explored India’s [...]

News from the road - Gibbs Farm and Matakana - February 2024 The weather gods played ball as our group explored the amazing outdoor sculptures of Gibbs Farm. The farm perched on the edge [...]

News from the road - Vietnam & Cambodia - October 2023 A lucky group has recently returned from exploring two fascinating Southeast Asian countries by land, sea and river. The tour was bookended by [...]

News from the road - West Highland Way and Outer Hebrides (Scotland) - August 2023 Our Scottish adventure starts in Glasgow where we took in a city walking tour with a local guide who [...]

Our group just returned from a fantastic tour walking in the Red Centre of Australia.. A fabulous week with stunning weather (we didn't see clouds till day 6); such strikingly different landscape; great local walking [...]

News from the road - Costa Rica - April 2023 Our recent tour explored this gem of Central America.  Not much bigger than Canterbury, Costa Rica packs in a lot with 30% of its [...]

Our recent sold-out tour to Egypt and Jordan was a real success. In Cairo the Pyramids and Sphinx wowed us and our lucky group got a sneak peek inside the new, yet to be opened, [...]

News from the road - South Island Great Walks Explorer Alastair Calder took a group on our ‘South Island Great Walks Explorer’ tour in April. Arriving into a stunning autumnal [...]

News from the road - E-Bike the Remutaka Cycle Trail A happy group completed nearly a week's cycling in Wellington and the Wairarapa recently, enjoying stunning views of Wellington harbour [...]

News from the road - East cape - Feb 2021 Penny took a group of 15 on the most amazing tour of the East Cape. Many [...]

News from the road - Walking Wanaka & Siberia Valley - Feb 2021 In February, we had two groups depart on our ‘Walking Wanaka & Siberia Valley’ tours. Based [...]

Peter Gibbs took a sold out tour on a short break to Matakana. We were fortunate to have excellent weather and we made the most of it, cruising [...]

The first of our New Zealand tours post-covid attracted a full house of 18 participants with Warwick Silvester hosting the group as tour manager and John Lawson behind [...]