World Cup fever diluted to a sniffle in Oz…
Some may thing we Aussies don’t do football. Maybe because sports commentators continue to refer to it as ‘the round-ball game’, not to get mixed up with rugby and Australia’s […]
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!
Making sense of Marrakech
If you love nothing more than to be lost in an open-air market for days at a time, then Marrakech is your soul town. Markets aside, there’s also fabulous food, […]
The spice of life…from Canada (yes, Canada)
The worst thing about writing shopping stories while travelling is constantly finding things you MUST MUST have. Which then leads to such scenarios as storage units full of stuff and […]
Hot to shop: Hong Kong
See the pros in action in one of the world’s greatest retail meccas, Hong Kong. How to compress shopping in Hong Kong into 600 words? Physically impossible. But you’ve got […]
Egypt smokes 19 billion cigarettes: maybe it’s time to quit?
It’s been a long time between drinks, as we say, and life has overtaken the blog. But I was awoken from my somnambulant state by a link to a BBC […]
Hot to shop: Manila
The reason why a week in Manila was so manic: because I needed to discover the underbelly of the city, from the grandly named Mall of Asia to the street […]
Travel guide to Dublin
Ta-daaaaaaaaaah! It’s Dublin. Hopefully all you need to know (and some you didn’t). But try to squish a city into two pages, and there’ll be some casualties. Click here to […]
Things that get me excited in the Philippines.
So I was in the Philippines last week, and in a post-tropics slump, all I feel inclined to show you is this picture. Now, it doesn’t look so amazing, but […]
Barra dreaming
The fish are elusive, the ancient rock art sensational and camp conditions suited to gourmet tastes at Kimberley Coastal Camp, in northern Australia. ”You’ll be right at Mitchell Plateau airstrip,” […]
Mummy’s the word in beauty
Ass’s milk may be off the menu but there are other ways to feel like Cleopatra. It’s a truism that to become beautiful, you become sinfully ugly in the process. […]