Happy Easter!
It is a mark of the difference between Australia’s commercial TV stations and the national broadcaster that at Easter, Channel 7 is showing The Fast and the Furious 2 (muscle […]
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!
Essential guide to Kuala Lumpur
There’s more to KL than those big towers – and what are they, anyway? You go up high, you look around, you go down… Instead, we say hit the malls […]
Hot to shop: Adelaide
Adelaide Arcade pic credit: Sun Herald For vintage fashion, antiques and contemporary design, this city is streets ahead. We’re talking Adelaide. Yes, Adelaide. Canny eastern states bargain hunters are well […]
Open-air drama in Melbourne’s skies
ONE of my pet hates is staying in hotel rooms where you can’t open the windows. I understand, in extreme circumstances, that annoying hotel guests might muck up the aircon, […]
More bang for your baht in Bangkok
MBK, you big, beautiful monster, I miss you! Someone told me recently they couldn’t understand the hype about Bangkok’s best budget shopping mall, but then they don’t know about the […]
Kyneton: Cool Piper calls the tune
Prunella’s florist on Kyneton’s Piper St. Cafes and galleries open at a rate of knots, yet there’s still a tractor shop in Kyneton’s hip main drag. How groovy can one […]
Hot to shop: Noosa
It’s not just about the surf and sand in this Sunshine Coast town, in Queensland. Noosa is where the beautiful people gather to frolic on Main Beach, in between coffee, […]
Liquid diet only at Ponyfish Island
Ponyfish Island – this pic should help you find it! In my continued (and futile) quest to stay with the pack on new Melbourne café openings, I finally got to […]
Greetings from the world’s second-most livable city
We Melburnians were disgruntled on Facebook this morning: 11 degrees and raining…in February, our summer. If we’d read the newspapers before the weather report, we should have been happier, as Melbourne has […]
Tagging, bombing, paste-ups, can control… street art in Melbourne
Pic credit: Metro Gallery If you thought that all that graffiti along the train lines was just kids wasting time, being destructive, you are just soooooo last century. This is art, baby, […]