Jane Phare

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare

Edwards, 52, has left his sky-blue Porsche 296 at the farm gate, hitching a ride up to the cabin in a 4WD. A 700m road will eventually connect to the clubhouse but that’ll be about it in terms of tar seal. From up at the club’s restaurant and bar, golfers will get a spectacular 360-degree view: the links golf course stretching out below and the wild west coast surf beach beyond. In the distance lurks the haunting outline of Kāpiti Island.

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare

Personal finance expert Martin Hawes has written his 24th book, Retirement Ready, and is starting to ease back on his workload to allow him more time for outdoor pursuits like open-water swimming. Photo / George Heard Finance guru and author Martin Hawes has written a “warts and all” book on how to plan for a comfortable retirement.

1 month ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare

The ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Jane Phare reflects on the highlights of a 16-day trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, including eight days drifting down the Mekong River on a luxury Viking river cruiserIf there was one attraction on everyone’s bucket list on our Viking tour it was Cambodia’s ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple complex of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap.

1 month ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare

One of Skyline's offshore luge sites in Tongyeong, South Korea. What started as a single gondola on Queenstown Hill in 1967 has expanded to a multimillion-dollar business in seven countries, with more to come. Jane Phare reports. Danny Luke remembers the thrill of sitting in a luge cart being towed up Queenstown Hill behind his grandfather’s car. It was the mid-1980s and Luke, about 6 at the time, would tear down the hill with his brothers to test the brakes and steering systems of the cart.

1 month ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Phare

Jodie Kennedy, co-founder of design and technology studio Edition Group, was shocked that more start-up founders called Dave showed up in her client base than women. After discovering there were more men called Dave than women in their client base, an Auckland-based design and technology studio is offering $15,000 worth of services to a female-led tech start-up.