Revenge of the weather lords
It hit 30 degrees on the weekend here in Melbourne. Right. Well, that’s summer out of the way then. And with the end of summer comes the end of holidays. […]
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!
Hot to Shop: Singapore
The joke goes that Singapore is the only shopping mall that’s been admitted into the UN. Tiny Singapore’s shopping is defined by Orchard Road: 2.2km of malls that are […]
Shark el-Sheikh: a fishy tale
This is so weird, even by Egyptian standards, that I have to share… The beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, is famed for its diving and snorkelling, […]
Jacarandas and moody blues
“BALFOUR Street, New Farm?” asks the airport bus driver. “Are you sure? There used to be a real rough, scuzzy backpackers’ down there.” “No, really. There’s a new hotel and […]
Why phones are the new fire
Because my Blackberry can’t take pix to save itself, here’s what The Age saw… In the last century, it used to be said that television was the new fire – […]
Feed me, Portuguese
You can end up in a world of pain, trying to be authentic in an ethnic restaurant. Try, for example, lunch yesterday in Madeira restaurant in suburban Melbourne, a Portuguese […]
Hot to shop: Dubai
33C outside, -4 inside at Ski Dubia, in the Mall of the Emirates In the US, they’d ask ‘do you want fries with that?’ In Dubai, they ask, ‘do you […]
Singapore’s new groove
It’s a country built on shopping malls, where chewing gum is illegal and nerdism is in, so the brief was to find the new, hip, not-necessarily-so-shiny Singapore. Doing the research, […]
Hot to shop: Seoul
They call it Planet Korea, and the bizarre north Asian capital, Seoul, is regularly written up in the world’s big newspapers of the day for its new design focus and […]