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Once a month we send out an e-newsletter, giving behind the scenes insight into the production of the magazine, sneak previews of upcoming issues as well as interactive features.Issue 25 May / Jun 2009
The Prettys: Catering for the country
WORDS: Lyn Barnes; PHOTOGRAPHS: Nicola Edmonds.
LEAD STORY: When the government wants to impress overseas guests with food and wine, it turns to a former cowshed in Te Horo.
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ONLINE ONLY!: A famed San Franciscan restaurant shares a recipe for its Tuscan meatballs in mushroom-tomato sauce.
Mushroom magic
TASTE: Annabel Langbein dishes up autumnal taste with the magic of mushrooms.
Out of India
DESTINATION: A desert festival complete with snake charmers turns a journey in Rajasthan into an exotic adventure.
Off the grid
GREEN ISSUES: Modern living and building off the grid can go hand in hand.
Palmy days
FEATURES: A commercial palm garden is one of New Zealand’s top gardens. WORDS: Lyn Barnes; PHOTOGRAPHS: Sally Tagg.
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ONLINE ONLY: Ways with quail eggs.
Win a blissful weekend at Auckland's luxurious new Chuan Spa
In Chinese culture, flowing water is considered to be the source of life and balance. “Chuan” is the Chinese word for “a serene coursing of water” so that seems exactly the right name to have chosen for the new spa at The Langham, Auckland’s most elegant five-star hotel. Chuan Spa provides treatments to promote rest, relaxation and well-being in a tranquil retreat where herbal steam rooms, sauna, Jacuzzi, a VIP or couple’s treatment room and more than 30 signature treatments restore harmony and balance. Chuan products, inspired by the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or those from Thalgo, made in France and incorporating marine extracts, add to the pleasures of rediscovering one’s source.
Our prize winners will have two days in which to luxuriate in the benefits of Chuan Spa. They will also have time to appreciate the indulgences on offer at The Langham. These start with limousine transfers between airport and hotel, cover use of all the hotel’s health and well-being facilities as well as access to The Langham Club for breakfast, afternoon snacks and evening drinks with canapés. The delights continue with The Langham’s indulgent afternoon tea (spa treatments are hungry work, after all) and the finale comes with dinner on both nights, once in the SBF Brasserie and once in the full-blown glamour of Partingtons restaurant.
There’s a problem of course – after all this, how would you cope with the return to the workaday world?
Other fantastic web-exclusive prizes to be won! To find out more, see our competition pages.
