London canteens and Indian tea houses
Today, I’m relying on photos to tell the story, rather than words. These are two beautiful spaces that crossed my desk this week: Pop Up Canteen is, as the cafe […]
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Canter past Patagonian icefields. Sail the tranquil waters of Lake Como in Italy. Sip coffee in a Palestinian village. Listen to the ancient voices of Australia’s Arnhem Land. Climb the mountain paths of northern Albania. Let’s go!
Five-star kids: Cinderella and sugar overload at the Langham
Proving that it’s never too early or late to start Disnifying your life, my diary now includes a date for the Langham hotel’s Cinderella Children’s Tiffin. It is the ultimate […]
Shake it, spa it, catwalk it: Travel deals 9 September 2012
Four-Diamond Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort & Spa Nostalgic surfer chic meets Miami swim catwalk on the Gold Coast and learn to shake what your mama gave you at the home […]
War on paper: North Vietnam’s artistic legacy
Independence Day posters on Hanoi’s streets. A new art tour in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) traces the work of combat artists in Vietnam’s modern wars. [This is a transcript […]
Strange and wild ghouls and snow: travel deals 2 Sept
Morning at Machu Picchu, Peru (Intrepid Travel) It’s all strange, wild and ghoulish in Tassie and Dracula’s Romania, and the locals say it’s puking in Victoria’s Falls Creek (translation: it’s snowing […]
Vietnam on famil, en famille
Playing with restaurant staff at Temple Club, Saigon. Last week, I travelled in Saigon and Hanoi for work, with a 17-month-old in tow. News flash: we survived. It’s not often […]
Travel deals 26 August 2012
Masai Mara tribe, Kenya Meet the Masai, the 12 Apostles or the hamlets of the Nullabor Plains on an epic trans-Australian journey. QUEENSLAND Pay $111 a night – a discount […]
Midnight marathons and trekking in Bhutan: travel deals 19 August
Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa, Maldives Midnight marathons, trekking in Bhutan and the London Design Festival; great international and domestic travel deals. SOUTH AUSTRALIA The great thing about Adelaide is the […]
Frogs in the belly get you the jump on Saigon
Saigon’s jumping chicken: high in calcium. I can’t even really look at this photo any more: not after knowing that one of these beasts is now part of me. In […]
The toast of Saigon
That’s not a fruit bowl. THIS is a fruit bowl. Ah, lovely Vietnam, where a complementary fruit arrangement in your room isn’t a couple of geriatric bananas and an aged granny smith, […]