Our country seems designed with the classic roadie in mind - a new, wholly impressive vista around each bend. But while our natural landscapes are well documented, the architecture often gets forgotten, despite numerous buildings of cultural and historical significance dotted across our country. Here are five essential pit stops to enter into your GPS as you make your way around Aotearoa this summer. 

If you’re one for a

Netflix’s rebooted Fab Five have arranged themselves across a colourful spectrum. The scale starts at ‘harmless drip’ (Antoni); runs through ‘snazzy uncle’ (Tan) and culminates, always, with the undisputed queen, Jonathan Van Ness.

Here’s why:

He’s an icon of men’s body positivity

Body positivity has been a big movement on social

Most of us know we spend far too much time on our phones. But advice on dialling it back tends not to recognise that our phones have become intrinsic to our work, and that actually yes, you do have to reply to that email after dinner. So here’s a digital detox that’s realistic – that stomps out the scrolling reflex, while still letting you get s*** done.

1. Carry a really, really good book or magazine.

Whenever

Remember taping movies off Channel 2, staying up late to skip the ads then emphatically scrawling “DO NOT WIPE” on the label? Then came the dark day your Dad was scrambling to tape the Bledisloe and he pushed record without reading the label and… RIP, Starship Troopers. And Fight Club. And Seven.

Happily, in this new and wondrous age of streaming, Netflix and Lightbox have stepped into the breach. And so we present: a selection of 90s cinematic

No matter how small you keep the guest list and how much you delegate, weddings are stressful. What you need out of a honeymoon, then, is downtime. Space with your beloved, and the freedom to pretty much not get dressed, ever.

Yet it seems hardwired: think honeymoon and we think jetting off to sunshine, white sand and turquoise sea, a fancy resort somewhere. And fair enough. For those getting married in winter the thought of a week or two on a tropical island might seem even more

Madeleine Chapman on dropping the perfect (dive) bomb – and why it’s worth protecting. 
Photography: Michael Bradley at the Bomb Comp in Rotorua and Sylvie Whinray in Raglan.

The key to popping a perfect manu lies in the bum. Before the body has even left the platform, or rock, or bridge, the bum is out. Arms up, back straight, knees bent, bum out. It’s known as the utkatasana (chair) pose in yoga and the “hurry up and jump” pose before

Forget the fiddle-leaf fig. They are undeniably awesome – they’re the big plants with the huge, glossy leaves; you may have seen them in every home decor shoot and ‘gram post since 2014 – but they cost a bomb and notoriously excel at dying. Instead, if you’re intent on introducing a houseplant to the desert of neglect that is your home, hit up one of these eerily indestructible specimens.

POTHOS
Post-apocalypse this will be

One thousand metres beneath the sea, the sperm whales are feeding. The largest toothed predators on earth, they spiral 20 at a time through the black, aphotic depths, searching blind for the thousand kilograms of food they require each day. The squid they eat do not go quiet. Hundreds of them disappear into the whales’ preposterously narrow maws, some clinging with barbed tentacles, thrashing, tearing chunks of flesh and skin in a scene you might put on a t-shirt or get tattooed on your back.