Last Wednesday night I got back from a road trip, covering about 1,600km (995 miles) over a period of a week. I hadn’t even been North to Auckland etc since before COVID, so it was such a treat to go…

Caveat: I have always loathed camping. The idea that a ‘holiday’ consists of setting up your tent right beside many others & sharing bathroom & cooking facilities etc is more like hell to me. Add a bit of bad weather,…