Welcome to Cooking up an Adventure!
Hi there! We are Hattie & Mitch, an English couple currently living in New Zealand and sharing with you, our top travel experiences, ideas and tips that we’ve discovered since we started travelling in 2017.
We are both passionate about travel planning, hiking, food, photography and sharing our experiences, hence we decided to start up Cooking up an Adventure. During Auckland’s 2021 Covid-19 lockdown our travel blog was born.
Our passion for travel started back in 2017. We met in Fiji when completing a volunteering project with the incredible Think Pacific. This involved living in the rural village of Dakuibeqa on Beqa Island for 4 weeks, before Mitch then completed 2 weeks of solo travel, island hopping around Fiji too. This was the beginning of our travel adventure.
Fortunately after Fiji, we both had flights booked to Sydney, Australia and then made it our first home together settling in Bondi Beach.
Since then, we have travelled 14 countries together, making incredible memories each step of the way.
Now residing in Auckland, we have a special place in our hearts for the Pacific region so we decided to focus our writing to these countries for now, as we have both lived and travelled in this area.
All the photos we share on our website are of our own experiences whilst living and travelling in the Pacific region.
We have fallen in love with the gorgeous people of Fiji, the unbelievable scenery of New Zealand, and the stunning Australian beaches and can’t wait to hopefully help you to do the same.
For now (watch this space!), in our blog we will be sharing with you our favourite suggestions for when you’re visiting New Zealand.
We hope you enjoy our content and look forward to sharing more of our future adventures with you.
Happy reading!
Hattie and Mitch x
