5 humorous short stories from a private travel guide

As a professional guide, one of the things I love most is not just to show you around our beautiful backyard, but it is to meet many different people and ethnicities, so we can learn from each other. There is nothing more rewarding to get a big thanks and hug at and end of a journey, sometimes departing as new found friends.

New Zealand’s friendly and down-to-earth people will be one of the things you treasure most about your visit. And for me, I cannot tell you how grateful I am to have met so many kind-hearted and interesting people from so many backgrounds.

I always hope that my visitors fall in love with New Zealand and take a little piece with them when they return to their home country.

A story about how we are much more alike as people then we think

Years ago, I had my first visitors from a Middle Eastern country. I prepared for the visit and learned about the rules; how, for example, I should not shake hands with people of the opposite…