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 …
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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 …
🌋 Greetings Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to a perfect 24 hours in Tongariro National Park — or as I like to call it, “New Zealand at its most dramatic, volcanic, and emotionally overwhelming.” New Zealand is a land of many names. In te reo Māori, it’s Aotearoa, the Land of the Long …
🌬️ Greetings Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to a perfect 24 hours in Wellington itinerary. Pop quiz, hotshot: what’s the capital of New Zealand? If you said Auckland, don’t feel embarrassed. Truly—no shame. Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand… at least if you’re counting humans. If you’re counting sheep, the math …