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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!
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, […]
Saturday night in Daylesford
On Saturday night, I was in Kazuki, the newest restaurant in delicious Daylesford, about 90 minutes north of Melbourne. Daylesford is, of course, hip to the eyeballs. Only a population […]
Poor Ned, it’s hard to get a head
Death mask of Ned Kelly. Police killer or a true, blue Aussie? Bushranger Ned Kelly is back in the news, 130 years after he was hung till dead in Old […]