On the road to Orpheus
Townsville airport is full of huge men with huge arms cloaked in huge tatts. Some are drinking stubbies of Bundy rum and coke, and it’s just gone 9.30am. The departures […]
NOTEBOOK
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!
Grey is the new brown: Colours of 2011
Grey is the new brown. Wearing my somewhat neglected interior-decorating hat, I received some notes about how we used colour in 2011. Yes, it’s the beginning of that publishing trend […]
Here’s booking with you, kid
Yasmine and her meimei (nanny) Litiana. FIJI’S air is humid and temperatures a good 20 degrees higher than the home I left five hours ago and I’m ferreting through a […]
Melbourne turns pink for Queen
The crowd in front of Flinders St Station Today, I put my republican hat aside and went to visit the Queen. Well, technically, that’s not true. She came to visit […]
More icing on the cake: Daylesford
Australia’s premier spa town just keeps getting better – and tastier. Discovers what’s new in Daylesford. “PLEASE, no mobile phones,” requests the Lake House’s restaurant menu. And, “Please, no thongs.” […]
Eat to ease East Africa’s famine
Sunday 16 October is World Food Day, and Oxfam is holding Shout the Horn to raise funds for its East Africa food crisis appeal. Close to 12 million people in […]
Notes from the back of a Daylesford wine bottle
Good Catholic Girl ‘Teresa’ Riesling 2010, Clare Valley: ‘St Teresa of Avila b. 1515 (patron of headache sufferers) is said to have been viewed levitating during deep prayer. My mother […]
Spring in the city: good reasons to visit Melbourne
Newmarket Hotel. Today, I was led astray, into the fabulous Melbourne Middle Eastern restaurant Maha. Little did I know that they are happy to serve up coffee to passers by, […]