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 […]
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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!
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, […]
Champagne free-flow on sale! Travel deals: 12 August 2012
Tadrai Island Resort, Fiji Get classy in Britain, test the champagne free-flow in Langkawi or slip into something comfortable in the Kimberley. TASMANIA Some of the world’s most pure […]
Bathrobes and pearls: travel deals, 5 August 2012
Crown Metropol, Melbourne Souveniring bathrobes, cruising with Agatha Christie or shopping South Sea pearls in Manila, read on for this week’s domestic and international travel deals: NSW It […]
Indian summer coming up
I must be missing my beloved hiking tent, because I saw this teepee in Sydney’s Koskela, when I was putting Kitchen by Mike through its paces (big thumbs up to the […]