Beauty products worth schlepping to your weekend away
The bare essentials and little, sandy, luxuries.
Seven things to take you from desk to beach
For those days when you plan to leave the office early for an after work dip...
Auckland cafes that are open during the summer break
These coffee machines are staying switched on.
Five fun playlists to listen to loud and on repeat
Just in time to soundtrack the holidays!
Where we go for our favourite swimwear
Our very particular swim requirements, and where we find them.
Beach reads recommended by people who have actually read them
Eight highly recommended books to lose yourself in this raumati.
A protest in three small triangles: The rebellious history of the bikini
It was a daring middle finger to the patriarchy to put a bikini on, writes Angela Barnett, in a call to arms to embrace its riotous past.
Bring back the basic holiday
After outsourcing her summer break to Malaysia, Annabel writes in raving favour of holidays filled with not doing much to write home about.
The small joys of coming home to an Aotearoa summer
When you swap the London snow for the sandy beaches of New Zealand, you notice the small joys.
Four great playlists to soundtrack your summer
Tunes to soundtrack whatever summer brings your way.
Why a conscious Christmas report was necessary
Turn the silly season into something more meaningful with The Body Shop.
