Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Sydney! It is a truly lucky traveler who gets to spend 24 hours in Sydney. This city is so offensively fun that you could spend the entire day parked by the harbor, staring out at the water and the steady parade of people …
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Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Melbourne! So—you’ve flown approximately one million hours to get to Australia (give or take), and now you’ve got exactly 24 hours in Melbourne to soak up the street art, sip something flat and white, and pretend you understand what “laneway culture” really means? …
Greetings Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 Hours in Auckland — or rather, two different 24-hour itineraries, because Auckland is a city with range, bestie. Auckland doesn’t always get as much international fanfare as its flashier neighbors in Oceania, like Sydney and Melbourne. And to make matters worse, it has to endure …
Greetings Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 Hours in the Bay of Islands! If you’ve spent more than twelve seconds on this blog, you already know that I fell head-over-hiking-boots for New Zealand. The whole country is so gorgeous it should honestly be illegal—from the snow-dusted peaks of the South Island to …
Greetings Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to one day in Rotorua, aka the day I realized New Zealand wasn’t just beautiful — it was straight-up magical. As you know from my recent New Zealand saga (did I write an entire memoir on accident? Possibly), I spent several weeks bouncing between the North and …
Greetings Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 Hours in Taupo to Waitomo, a day so packed with geothermal drama, lake views, and bioluminescent worms that you’ll feel like you accidentally wandered onto the set of three different nature documentaries at once. As I’ve mentioned approximately seven thousand times across my New Zealand …