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  Join us for a delicious 5 day/ 4 night exploration of Hawkes Bay starting on March 31st 2022. Much of this will be done on e-bikes which are extremely simple to ride and make everything just that much easier – we are on a Tour de Food not Tour de France! When not cycling we will travel by comfort in a shuttle. From when you arrive at Napier we will take care of your meals through until Monday afternoon (most drinks are at your own cost). We have selected comfortable accommodation throughout. Price is $2595 p/p  twin share. Single...

By February most families are tired of winter temps and darker days, but these weekend, Portland will light up your lives with events that celebrate the current season! The Winter Light Festival is here and it has taken over our city with a bunch of events that will keep you inspired, moving and grooving all weekend long. Read on to find out more. photo: via pexels Sky Zone Let go of gravity and grab some air on these sprawling wall-to-wall trampoline courts. Your kids can challenge a friend or show off their inner acrobat. Reach new heights while flipping and...

With golden shovels and white hard hats, city leaders and mall executives scooped up clumps of red-brown earth from a metal bin and tossed them into the air, marking the start of construction of a new 309-unit apartment complex on a parking lot at Santa Ana’s MainPlace Mall. The new Paloma apartments are just the beginning of what mall owners say is a $500 million redevelopment of the 63-year-old marketplace that eventually will include open air courtyards, another apartment building, culinary dining, a music venue and art walks. The owners continue to evaluate the possibility of adding office space and...

Vessel Hostel's Nikki dela Paz-Libarnes (pictured here with her son, Pancho) is a natural, both in surfing and architecture. She wears the Iwa maillot. On one bright morning in Surftown (aka La Union), we met up with Nikki dela Paz-Libarnes, surfer architect and co-founder of Vessel Hostel. The agenda? A photo shoot with her as the subject, of course. She welcomes us in Vessel and we make our way into their cozy, surf-inspired pad built from repurposed shipping containers stacked on top of each other. She leads us to one of the rooms with bunk beds, and we turn it into our dressing room for the day.  No stranger...

What you need to know Peloton's week has gone from bad to worse with the news that it almost killed another on-air character. A Billions character has a heart attack while on a Peloton bike in the new season's opener. Sex and the City already killed off Mr. Big using a Peloton, causing a fall in the company's share price. They say there's no such thing as bad publicity but Peloton is proving them all wrong. Warning, minor Billions season six spoiler ahead! Peloton has already had its fair share of bad publicity and it's in for another round after...