Introducing the Perfect Pairings winner from the first Savour Northland food + drinks festival: haku kingfish in a fragrant coconut Penang curry matched with Dancing Petrel's Viognier. Exquisite. Congrats Gareth, Anna & Jess from BrewedAs Mangawhai! 10/10.

My loves ❤️

Felt privileged to return to The Shire to celebrate the opening of Bagshot Row™, inside the Hobbit Hole, at Hobbiton Movie Set.

Summer has officially arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. Welcome back, we have missed you!

Hola Fiesta Fridays!
The perfect end to a long week. TGIF.

From where you'd rather be right now - Gnarabup Beach in the Margaret River region on Wadandi Boodja. Great coffee from the White Elephant Cafe too.

Love it when you're visiting your hometown when someone comes up to you and asks "are you Jason Dawson?" Too funny, it was our old high school mate Dougy Rae who was also visiting Whangārei from Sydney for two days. It has been 31 years since we last saw each other!! Man, we are grown-ups now 🤣🤣🤣

Magical flight to Te Waipounamu yesterday. Thanks Air New Zealand

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Highly recommend the cocktails at Astroboy in Whangārei. Great food, cool vibe & slick service too.

Love my new keep cup and the appropriate coffee art created by Barista Dumin at Cafe Kopi. I'm sure my Rocket Coffee tasted a lot nicer too! 😋 🤣

It was the most stunning day in Taupō today and the maunga were standing proud framed by the lake. Ataahua ❤️

Nothing beats having your morning coffee with some cheeky banter & a review of the weekend's activities. That is why Dave, Sumin & Manjula at Kopi are Hamilton's Outstanding Cafe of the Year. Love your work!

After such a gloomy day, it was nice to see the sun and colour pop out at the Hamilton City Library in Garden Place.
#MightyWaikato
#LoveTheTron

Jeepers! Sorting through our champagne corks and found this beauty from 15th November 2002.

It's the day she said YES at Moet & Chandon in Epernay, France. We opened another bottle of champagne on the train back to Paris & called the family with the news from a phone box at Gard du Nord station.

This gloomy, dark and rainy day calls for flowers from the garden throughout the house to brighten things up for the weekend. Love the wee daisys - reminds me of spring in the pasture ❤️

Kia ora!
Nice to finally be here. Thanks so much @janetgreig.bsky.social for the invitation 😊
#TheSkyIsTheLimit