Hard to Find

Good books, like true friends, can be hard to find. When you locate both, you wanna hang on to them. On a recent visit to Auckland, a Kiwi writer with paternal roots in Lautoka Tulia Thompson leads me to Hard to Find, a two-storey house in Onehunga with rooms and...

Raro

If the stonefish in Muri Lagoon don’t kill you, the high price of internet data will. On my very first visit to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands last week, I’m astounded that a gig of data can cost NZ$50 (F$75), and which I chew up in no time. It’s one...

The Way We Wore

The year was 1979 and Sue Walker (far right) was 20 when this photograph, for a Tiki Togs advertising campaign, was taken at the then Suva Travelodge (now Holiday Inn Suva). She and the girl on the far left (Corrina Costello née Gibson) were chosen from a lineup of...

Suva Market

We often talk about atmosphere and ambience in rarified terms: 
a highfalutin restaurant, 
a fancy home, 
a five-star resort on Denarau. But what of that which exists naturally, and in spades. 
That which you can not replicate?
The thought crossed my mind early...