Insiders Dunedin
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
Seven ways in. Pick the one that catches your eye.
What we've been looking at lately.
Walk Dunedin and read the city through its buildings -- Oamaru stone facades, the railway station, the clocktower, and what they reveal about a town that aimed high.
14 July 2026
From the Otago Farmers Market to flat brunches and Botanic Garden parkruns, Saturday morning in Dunedin moves at its own pace. Here is how we do weekends.
The couch on the porch, the name on the letterbox, the cold that builds character. What makes the Dunedin scarfie flat an institution of its own.
David Stedman runs Dutybound from the same Crawford Street bindery where he apprenticed decades ago. We profile a craft that refuses to disappear.
Started as a side project between a handful of Dunedin locals who kept running into the same problem: they'd discover something brilliant - a new bar in a converted warehouse, a walking track they'd somehow never done, a ceramicist working out of a garage in Port Chalmers - and have nowhere to put the story except a Facebook post that would vanish in a day.
A shared blog became a proper site when they realised other people were having the same experience. Dunedin has always been full of things worth knowing about; it was just missing a place to collect them.
The stories, people, and places that make Dunedin worth paying attention to. In your inbox when we have something worth sharing.
