Chilean Tourist Robbed, Loses Life’s Work

We were saddened to hear that another tourist has fallen foul of New Zealand’s criminal element. It looks like word still isn’t getting out about the high levels of crime in New Zealand. In today’s Herald “A tearful Chilean tourist has had the laptop computer containing her life’s work stolen – barely a kilometre away…

100% Pure You? Anna Faris May Think Otherwise

It’s official, New Zealand is no longer 100% Pure. Tourism New Zealand recently launched a new advertising campaign that pushes the 100% pure emphasis off of the country and onto the individual that visits it. Shame then that Anna Feris didn’t feel 100% Pure when she was in NZ shooting the movie  Yogi Bear. She…

Welsh Couple Left Without A Penny In New Plymouth

It must be summer in New Zealand because a couple of Welsh holidaymakers are the latest tourists to appear in another New Zealand camper-van robbery story; there have been so many of them over the years. “Michael Wright and Amy Murphy‘s latest bit of misfortune struck when thieves broke into their van at New Plymouth’s…

Child Dies After Rotorua Hot Pool Plunge – updated

An eight year old child, visiting New Zealand with his family, died this evening (NZ time) after sustaining severe, 100% burns when he fell into a hot pool at the Kuirau thermal parkland in urban Rotorua. Our heartfelt condolences go out to the boy’s family, who are understandably devastated by his death. He was later…