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# GlobalSalsa: travel writer Belinda Jackson

Belinda Jackson - international travel writer & journalist

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## Posts

- [Blog - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/blog-2/)
- [Is the EuroSummer dead? The coolcation cruises you need to look at now | Financial Review](https://globalsalsa.com/are-we-looking-at-the-death-of-the-eurosummer-the-cruise-you-need-to-look-at-now-financial-review/) - Forty degrees in Paris? It's fair to say the world is not right - in fact, The European Environment Agency says Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, heating up at twice the global average rate, due to proximity to the Arctic’s melting perimeter. So how does your EuroSummer shape up?
- [Six years on the Trans Canada Trail with filmmaker Dianne Whelan | The World Awaits](https://globalsalsa.com/six-years-on-the-trans-canada-trail-with-filmmaker-dianne-whelan-the-world-awaits-podcast/) - At 50, filmmaker Dianne Whelan set out to walk and kayak the longest trail in the world, the 24,000km-long Trans Canada Trail; she talked to me on The World Awaits podcast.
- [Self-drive safari v luxury game experience: South African safari two ways | Sydney Morning Herald](https://globalsalsa.com/self-drive-safari-v-luxury-game-experience-south-african-safari-two-ways/) - Why don’t more Australians do a self-drive safari? So I went to South Africa to find out.
- [Flight review: Melbourne-Jakarta-Tokyo with Garuda Indonesia | Sydney Morning Herald](https://globalsalsa.com/flight-review-melbourne-jakarta-tokyo-with-garuda-indonesia/) - If you've ever tried to find a last-minute ticket to Japan from Australia in sakura (cherry blossom) season, read on. My flight review of Garuda International.
- [Giveaway! Win a night's stay at MOXY Sydney Airport hotel with The World Awaits podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/giveaway-win-a-nights-stay-at-moxy-sydney-airport-hotel/) - Win a night’s stay for two at the chic Moxy Sydney Airport hotel with 14 nights’ valet parking, through this giveaway with my travel podcast, The World Awaits.
- [Flight review: would you pay $900 to fly Perth to Melbourne? Canberra Times](https://globalsalsa.com/canberra-times-would-you-pay-900-for-a-flight-from-perth-to-melbourne/) - In times of hardship and war, do airlines price gouge? That was the question top of mind as I flew from Perth to Melbourne, a 3.5- hour flight across Australia. Grab the one-way fare on a really good day, and you'll pay just shy of A$300. Some days, when it's busy and in peak holiday seasons,
- [Haunted hotels, gold toothbrushes; the best and worst hotels: ABC Radio Adelaide](https://globalsalsa.com/haunted-hotels-gold-toothbrushes-the-best-and-worst-hotels-with-abc-adelaide/) - Gold toothbrushes? Someone else's hair on the soap? What makes or breaks you for the best and worst hotels you've ever stayed in?
- [Why now is the best time to visit Afghanistan: The World Awaits podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/why-now-is-the-best-time-to-visit-afghanistan/) - Come to Central Asia's forgotten country, Afghanistan with Belle Jackson on The World Awaits travel podcast.
- [Navigating the unknown – travel during the Middle East crisis & Australia's best runway rooms](https://globalsalsa.com/navigating-the-unknown-travel-during-the-middle-east-crisis-australias-best-runway-rooms/) - Travel has taken a huge hit with the Middle East crisis now entering its fifth week, and it can be challenging to keep up with what you should and shouldn't do with travel plans during these significant and devastating world events. This week on The World Awaits, my co-host Kirstie and I are sharing our
- [Escape to the country, within the city limits: Marnong Estate, Victoria](https://globalsalsa.com/escape-to-the-country-within-the-city-limits/) - Accommodation review of vineyard and country estate Marnong Estate, Mickelham, Melbourne, Australia
- [Why Ramadan is a season to travel in the Middle East: Canberra Times](https://globalsalsa.com/why-ramadan-is-a-season-to-travel-in-the-middle-east/) - We're just about at the end of Ramadan - the Islamic month of prayer, fasting and reflection - with Eid forecast for later this week, and my story about best countries to experience Ramadan as a traveller. It's a chance to wander back in my mind about nights spent by the Nile, tables laden with
- [ The top travel destinations for 2026: ABC Radio, 3AW Radio clips](https://globalsalsa.com/the-top-travel-destinations-for-2026/) - The key travel destinations for 2026 -
- [Tea drinkers, unite! The plight of the tea drinker in luxury hotels](https://globalsalsa.com/tea-drinkers-unite-the-plight-of-the-tea-drinker-in-luxury-hotels/) - Tea drinkers, come join my tea party! "It’s a sultry morning in the Maldives and the mechanic is sweating as he tinkers with the sparkling La Marzocco espresso machine. All the while, hopeful guests watch, desperate for a morning hit. “We’ve flown the mechanic in twice this month, as the humidity plays havoc with the
- [Belinda Jackson wins Travel Writer of the Year 2025-26](https://globalsalsa.com/belinda-jackson-wins-travel-writer-of-the-year/) - I am so pleased to announce that I'm the Australian Society of Travel Writers' new Travel Writer of the Year!
- [Walking, wine and wombats: Tasmania's lake lodge you need to visit; Australia's best cellar doors & save on Swiss rail passes](https://globalsalsa.com/walking-wine-and-wombats-tasmanias-lake-lodge-you-need-to-visit-australias-best-cellar-doors-save-on-swiss-rail-passes/) - Tasmania's Central Highlands and Australia's deepest lake: that's where we're all going via The World Awaits travel podcast, for walking, wine and wombats.
- [Best things to do on the Great Ocean Road with Lonely Planet](https://globalsalsa.com/best-things-to-do-on-the-great-ocean-road/) - The Great Ocean Road is Australia’s most iconic road trip, running along the coastline of Victoria, and I've written this guide to the drive for Lonely Planet.
- [Explore Malta with chef Shane Delia; getting compensated for delayed flights & hire car accident hotspots](https://globalsalsa.com/exploring-malta-with-chef-shane-delia-getting-compensated-for-delayed-flights-hire-car-accident-hotspots/) - Maltese-Australian chef, restaurateur and TV presenter Shane Delia returns to the Mediterranean island to share the best things to do in Malta.
- [Roadtrip to Uluru and Australia's Red Centre, Michelin Keys now rate the world's best hotels & dogs on planes](https://globalsalsa.com/roadtrip-to-uluru-and-australias-red-centre-michelin-keys-now-rate-the-worlds-best-hotels-dogs-on-planes/) - Roadtrip to Uluru and Australia's Red Centre
- [Old Salt, Pier Runner, Wellness Cruiser: What's your cruise personality?](https://globalsalsa.com/old-salt-pier-runner-wellness-cruiser-whats-your-cruise-personality/) - From pier runners to the bargain hunters, which one of these 10 cruise personalities are you? My story in the Australian Financial Review's High Seas magazine decode the most common ocean journey archetypes, including the Old Salt and Round-the-World Devotees, and why you should google upside-down pineapples before you cruise. There are the wellness cruisers,
- [Shortlisted for Australian Travel Writer of the Year 2025](https://globalsalsa.com/5490-2/) - I’m very, very pleased to announce that I’ve been shortlisted again for Travel Writer of the Year in the Australian Society of Travel Writers 2025 awards! I titled my collection of three features The Underrated and the Understated, reporting on a train journey in southern Spain, AlUla in Saudi Arabia and Oman (that’s me, stopping
- [The view from a neurodivergent traveller; world's most crowded hotspots & duty-free shopping tips](https://globalsalsa.com/the-view-from-a-neurodivergent-traveller-worlds-most-crowded-hotspots-duty-free-shopping-tips/) - Airports are one of the most stressful places we find ourselves, and this week on The World Awaits podcast, we're looking at travel from the viewpoint of a neurodivergent traveller.
- [Travel in Asia: the hotspots and the sleeper hits](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-in-asia-the-hotspots-and-the-sleeper-hits/) - Chatting ABC Radio Adelaide about Asia's travel hotspots, and where to step off the beaten track to alternate destinations in Vietnam, Japan and the Philippines.
- [Boat safety in Bali; media appearance on ABC TV News Channel](https://globalsalsa.com/abc-tv-boat-safety-in-bali-media-appearance/) - Following a recent boat tragedy in Bali, Indonesia, I spoke with ABC TV's News Channel about boat safety and how travellers can travel safely in the region.
- [Best things to do in Cairo, how to guarantee a sunny holiday & things left in Ubers: The World Awaits podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/best-things-to-do-in-cairo-how-to-guarantee-a-sunny-holiday-things-left-in-ubers/) - Belle shares her top three things to do in Cairo, including the best Egyptian museums, neighbourhoods and essential experiences.
- [New hotels, cruises and a Qantas tie-in: why you should holiday in Oman, Australian Financial Review](https://globalsalsa.com/new-hotels-cruises-and-a-qantas-tie-in-why-you-should-holiday-in-oman/) - I first visited Oman way back at the beginning of my crush on the Middle East - at the time, the country was little known to Australians, and to beat an impending group of journalists visiting, two of us opted to go early. Which is how I came to be sitting in a desert, looking
- [Hotel Review: Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino, Greece, Dream by Luxury Escapes magazine](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-mandarin-oriental-costa-navarino-greece/) - The dream assignment: go to Greece, stay at the new Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino, on the Peloponnese coast. Reader, I acquiesced.
- [How can we protect Africa's wildlife from poaching? Go on safari! The World Awaits podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/how-can-we-protect-africas-wildlife-from-poaching-go-on-safari-the-world-awaits-podcast/) - How can we protect Africa's wildlife from poaching? Go on safari! Australian author Tony Park is my guest on The World Awaits travel podcast this week, chatting about safaris in southern Africa, where he lives on the edge of Kruger National Park, and his whodunnits all have a strong conservation theme. We’ve teamed up with
- [It's a flower-powered Frida (Kahlo) fest in Bendigo. Canberra Times](https://globalsalsa.com/a-flower-powered-frida-fest-in-bendigo-canberra-times/) - The latest exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Frida Kahlo: In her own image, is at times so intimate you'd think it was your friend's drawers you were rifling through.
- [A river cruise through Laos & travel inspo from the movies: The World Awaits podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/a-river-cruise-through-laos-the-worlds-most-ravishing-runway-travel-inspo-from-the-movies/) - "The best way to see the Mekong is slowly," says travel journalist Michael Turtle, speaking to me on this week's episode of The World Awaits travel podcast.
- [Mainland, not mainstream: hotel review Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino: Sydney Morning Herald](https://globalsalsa.com/mainland-not-mainstream-hotel-review-mandarin-oriental-costa-navarino/) - The blue eye dangles from my key ring as I drive south from Athens. The mati, as the amulet is known in Greece, wards off envy and jealousy. Almost four hours later, I’ve driven across the much overlooked, history-making Peloponnese peninsula and, pulling my little rental car in to the Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino’s porte
- [Visiting Vietnam's underrated regions: travel tips, budget airlines and hot hotels: Canberra Times](https://globalsalsa.com/visiting-vietnams-underrated-regions-travel-tips-budget-airlines-and-hot-hotels/) - This trip to Vietnam, I’ve turned my back on the big cities – Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang; even tourist-loving Hoi An, and definitely Ha Long Bay. Instead, I’ve begun my exploration of Vietnam’s waterways in the imperial city of Hue, in central Vietnam, continuing south to the fishing village of Ke
- [Strauss has Vienna in a spin, again; 200 years of the waltz in Vienna Austria: Australian Financial Review](https://globalsalsa.com/strauss-has-vienna-in-a-spin-again-200-years-of-the-waltz-in-vienna-austria/) - This year, Vienna celebrates 200 years since the birth of its ‘Waltz King’, Johann Strauss II, best known for Vienna’s unofficial anthem, The Blue Danube.
- [Train travel through Greece & Bulgaria with Eurail](https://globalsalsa.com/train-travel-through-greece-bulgaria-with-eurail/) - Dream assignment: to travel by train through Greece and Bulgaria with the sole purpose to eat, think and travel deeply and slowly.
- [The best things to do in Sofia, Bulgaria](https://globalsalsa.com/the-best-things-to-do-in-sofia-bulgaria/) - For streets paved with gold, what to eat and 7000 years of history, I give you my list of the best things to do in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- [A coolcation in Vienna, skipping Japan's cherry blossom crowds & tone-deaf NZ campaign](https://globalsalsa.com/a-coolcation-in-vienna-skipping-japans-cherry-blossom-crowds-tone-deaf-nz-campaign/) - Ice skating, Christmas markets, palaces and eating sausages in your opera gown – that's Vienna! Also, great tourism ads and cherry blossoms without the crowds.
- [Peru's high trails & the latest from Queensland's Sunshine Coast: The World Awaits](https://globalsalsa.com/perus-high-trails-the-latest-from-qlds-sunny-coast/) - On this episode of our travel podcast The World Awaits, we talk about the joy of hiking to the Inca City's Sun Gate, and other great itineraries for walking in Peru.
- [Hotels reborn: 10 historic buildings that are now luxury hotels](https://globalsalsa.com/hotels-reborn-10-historic-buildings-that-are-now-luxury-hotels/) - Where are you sleeping tonight? In a prison cell? A castle? A monastery. A jam factory? I'm talking about rooms inside buildings that have been reborn as hotels - buildings that may otherwise have fallen into irretrievable disrepair, or worse. Traveller cover photo The Interlude @ Pentridge Prison This weekend, my cover story in the
- [Best things to do in Thessaloniki, Greece: Sydney Morning Herald](https://globalsalsa.com/best-things-to-do-in-thessaloniki-greece/) - I have left a little piece of my heart in lovely Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, close to the border of Bulgaria. Greek Orthodox Church at Thessaloniki train station. Credit Belinda Jackson Mind you, I took away a couple of kilos thanks to its excellent dining scene, so it's a fair trade, yes? A mish-mash of
- [High country luxury; The Benev, Beechworth](https://globalsalsa.com/high-country-luxury-the-benev-beechworth/) - I love a small hotel with a history, and The Benev, in Beechworth, ticks all boxes for its beautiful restoration For those following along on my instagram account, you'll know I've been hitting the Hume Highway from Melbourne up to Victoria's High Country a few times in the past six months. I dropped in to
- [There are 248 phones stolen in London every day: mine was one of them](https://globalsalsa.com/there-are-248-phones-stolen-in-london-every-day-mine-was-one-of-them/) - This week, I published a story in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age about my phone being stolen in London. We've all had stuff stolen - what made it pertinent was the release of recent figures that show just how many phones are stolen in London every day. Take a guess? 248 phones. A
- [How to eat in Tokyo: The World Awaits interview](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-eat-in-tokyo-the-world-awaits-interview/) - There are 26,000 ramen bars in Tokyo – how do you choose the best? Chef Luke Burgess talks to me on The World Awaits podcast about finding your way in Tokyo.
- [Italy’s Amalfi Coast, 2025’s top travel trends & inflight skincare](https://globalsalsa.com/italys-amalfi-coast-2025s-top-travel-trends-inflight-skincare/) - Dream of days wandering Italy’s Amalfi Coast? Let's go, with the fabulous Australian-Italian author Maria Pasquale on The World Awaits travel podcast.
- [Shuwa & chai: the best food in Oman](https://globalsalsa.com/shuwa-chai-the-best-food-in-oman/) - One of my great trips of 2024 was a solo trip back to Oman, the Switzerland of the Middle East. Wealthy, calm, no high-rises, welcoming to all travellers.
- [Travels in mainland Greece with ABC Radio](https://globalsalsa.com/travels-in-mainland-greece-with-abc-radio/) - Whenever anyone talks of holidaying in Greece, the islands tend to get all the glory. But what about the Greek mainland? Listen to my interview with ABC Radio to find out
- [Australia’s newest ‘Great Walk’ goes to Flinders Island, Tasmania](https://globalsalsa.com/australias-newest-great-walk-goes-to-flinders-island-tasmania/) - Flinders Island sits in the waters of Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania. This new week-long walking trip follows mountain ridges and bays of turquoise waters.
- [Pilgrim route at 300km/hour: on the bullet train to Mecca](https://globalsalsa.com/pilgrim-route-at-300km-hour-on-the-bullet-train-to-mecca/) - Once, you had to ride a camel over stony deserts to reach Mecca, the holiest sites in Islam. Today, you can catch a bullet train and be there in couple of hours.
- [Luxury v rusticity: the two faces of Dubai](https://globalsalsa.com/luxe-v-rustic-the-two-faces-of-dubai/) - All that glitters is (most likely) 24-karat gold in the party town of Dubai, but flip the shiny coin and you'll discover the traditions and history deep in its Emirati heart.
- [Best places for stargazing, aurora hunting & dark sky sanctuaries](https://globalsalsa.com/best-places-for-stargazing-aurora-hunting-dark-sky-sanctuaries/) - Best places to go stargazing. When was the last time you soaked up the night sky? Went stargazing? Spotted a full moon? Admired the Milky Way? Saw an aurora?
- [Best airfares to Europe & the US, top Aussie towns & pre-travel checklist](https://globalsalsa.com/best-airfares-to-europe-the-us-top-tiny-towns-in-australia-best-pre-travel-checklist/) - Want to get the best airfare to Europe or the US? We’re going full #avgeek, as flight booking expert Mark Trim shares insider secrets of flight shopping.
- [Should I swim with whales? An ethical debate](https://globalsalsa.com/should-i-swim-with-whales-an-ethical-debate/) - A few months ago, I jumped in the chilly waters the NSW South Coast to swim with whales, as a pod of humpbacks passed by. Should I even be doing it?
- [Connect the dots: art in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/connect-dots-art-in-tiwi-islands/) - Bathurst Island Lodge. Photo: Belinda Jackson Crocodiles and canvas make for a potent mix in the Tiwi Islands. The speed boat tears down the broad brown river, and I feel 1000 non-human eyes watching us from the primordial mangrove-lined banks. "Can you smell the flying fox?" asks Kathy. It’s the first time I’ve been asked
- [Southern Spain by train for fino & flamenco - Seville, Jerez & Cadiz](https://globalsalsa.com/southern-spain-by-train-for-fino-flamenco-seville-jerez-cadiz/) - I took a six-day tour with UK slow travel company InnTravel, travelling Spain by train between Seville, Jerez and Cadiz to explore flamenco and sherry here in southern Andalucia.
- [Travel greats of G Adventures & Lonely Planet on The World Awaits podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/tune-in-to-hear-travel-entrepreneurs-of-g-adventures-lonely-planet-on-the-world-awaits-podcast/) - The World Awaits travel podcast brings you two of the biggest entrepreneurs in travel, G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip and travel trailblazer Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet.
- [Wildlife safari in South Africa & best holidays on a budget](https://globalsalsa.com/wildlife-safari-in-south-africa-best-holidays-on-a-budget/) - Spot the Big Five on a South African wildlife safari…and then really start seeing what the Greater Kruger National Park has to offer. This week on The World Awaits podcast, I interview Jacques Smit of Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, who takes us on a tour of the fence-free reserve within the Greater Kruger area.
- [Whale swim in NSW south coast: with 3AW radio Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/whale-swim-in-nsw-south-coast/) - We’re in the thick of whale season in Australia, the NSW south coast is pinging with cetaceous shenanigans and ethical sealife tour operator Wobegone is currently running seal and whale swims in Jervis Bay.
- [Dubai floods & my eyewitness reports](https://globalsalsa.com/dubai-floods-my-eyewitness-reports/) - Dubai floods - do those two words even belong together? It's been a big couple of days, travelling from Melbourne to Muscat via Dubai. I had 36 hours in Dubai - most of that spent at the airport - as the emirate was smashed by tumultuous rain and ensuing floods, which I saw first hand
- [Best things to do on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/best-things-to-do-on-the-bellarine-peninsula-victoria-australia/) - The Bellarine Peninsula is packed with great places to eat and drink, with fantastic produce and glorious views. .
- [Travel in Australia: busting myths on 3AW](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-in-australia-busting-myths-on-3aw/) - What travel myths do we tell international visitors about travel in Australia? That Perth is the world's most isolated capital. That Brisbane is just a big country town? That Melbourne has the best coffee? This week, I jumped onto 3AW Melbourne radio to chat with afternoons host Tony Moclair about these myths, which fellow travel
- [Travelling in Oman: chat with 2GB Sydney radio](https://globalsalsa.com/travelling-in-oman-chat-with-2gb-sydney-radio/) - I'm recently back from travelling in Oman, the quietest country in the Middle East. So quiet, you may never have thought of it, or thought to visit. You're missing out.
- [Glamping in Saudi Arabia wins TravMedia's Travel Writer of the Year award](https://globalsalsa.com/glamping-in-saudi-arabia-wins-travmedias-travel-writer-of-the-year-award/) - I'm on a bit of a roll at the moment - this week, in Sydney, I took home a new award, the inaugural TravMedia Travel Writer of the Year! Gongs galore!
- [Best new architecture openings in 2024](https://globalsalsa.com/best-new-architecture-openings-in-2024/) - Best new architecture openings in 2024
- [My slices of heaven: travel in Turkey & Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/my-slices-of-heaven-travel-in-turkey-egypt/) - Nisanyan was a stone house in rural Turkey, forgotten or ignored for generations and demoted to a lowly stable before its reincarnation into a small, family hotel. Now, the hotel is its own village outside Selçuk; a series of hand made, whitewash-and-stone cottages, inns and villas along the tree-lined laneway, which I visited on a
- [Enter the Year of the Dragon! Celebrate the Lunar New Year in Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/enter-the-year-of-the-dragon-celebrate-the-lunar-new-year-in-melbourne/) - Enter the Year of the Dragon: Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Melbourne
- [Rail review: Travelling by train on the London-Paris Eurostar, Business Premier class](https://globalsalsa.com/rail-review-travelling-on-the-eurostar-london-paris-business-premier-class/) - Eurostar train from London to Paris. THE ROUTE London Pancras International – Paris Gare du NordDeparts 10.26 Arrives 13.50Coach 16, Seat 65, Train no 9018 BOARDING Eurostar advises arriving an hour before departure, and ticket gates close 15 minutes before departure. I pass through the ticket check, with security and a helpful UK passport check,
- [Saudi Arabia on a plate](https://globalsalsa.com/saudi-arabia-on-a-plate/) - Camel kebabs, gold-flecked savoury porridge, shakshuka, mint tea, green coffee and lots and lots of dates. Eating in Saudi Arabia is an adventure.
- [Rebuilding Maui & Life in Bhutan](https://globalsalsa.com/rebuilding-maui-life-in-bhutan/) - This week on The World Awaits podcast, we look at rebuilding Maui, Hawaii after its devastating fires, and explore life in the mountain kingdom of Bhutan
- [Winner: ASTW Travel Writer of the Year!](https://globalsalsa.com/winner-astw-travel-writer-of-the-year/) - I am so very, very, very pleased to tell you that I have been named Travel Writer of the Year 2023 by the Australian Society of Travel Writers (ASTW)! The ASTW made the announcement at its awards ceremony in Sydney this weekend, a glittering occasion (not least because I decided to emulate a human mirrorball for
- [Mindful travel in Nepal & Hiking with refugees](https://globalsalsa.com/mindful-travel-in-nepal-hiking-with-refugees/) - Walking slowly in silence in the Nepalese Himalayas is just one of the ways travel writer Nina Karnikowski says we can embrace mindful travel. Belle talks to Nina about taking the time to travel, and taking in the world around us on a more acute level. “We can travel at a pace so fast, we
- [Nominations for the Australian Society of Travel Writers' awards 2023](https://globalsalsa.com/nominations-for-the-australian-society-of-travel-writers-awards-2023/) - Good things come in - whatever size, shape or form you'd like. But today, I have news of two very good things, I've received two nominations in the 2023 Australian Society of Travel Writers' Awards; for Travel Writer of the Year (yep, the big one!) and Best Accommodation Story. Some years are tough for those
- [Hunting Australia’s alternative wines & softcore wellness in south-east Asia](https://globalsalsa.com/hunting-australias-alternative-wines-softcore-wellness-in-south-east-asia/) - Where do you go to step off the beaten track of wine – away from the unholy trinity of chardonnay, shiraz and sauvignon blanc? Author and wine writer Max Allen talks to Belle about his new book, Alternative Reality: How Australian wine changed course. The book includes the best cellar doors in Australia where
- [The World Awaits: Bali and memorable wildlife encounters](https://globalsalsa.com/the-world-awaits-bali-and-memorable-wildlife-encounters/) - On this week's episode of The World Awaits podcast: the best wildlife encounter (best for you, best for the wildlife), and is Bali really all it’s cracked up to be?
- [AIRPORT LOUNGE REVIEW: Etihad business class lounge, Abu Dhabi, UAE](https://globalsalsa.com/airport-lounge-review-etihad-business-class-lounge-abu-dhabi-uae/) - THE LOCATION This Etihad business class lounge is located near gate 35 in Abu Dhabi international airport. A haven for long layovers, it’s obvious this lounge is winding down ahead of the new airport terminal opening in November. Etihad business class lounge, Abu Dhabi, UAE THE VIBE Very, very low key, with light muzak in
- [Free things to do in airports: ABC Radio interview](https://globalsalsa.com/free-things-to-do-in-airports-abc-radio-interview/) - Waiting in airports is one of the downsides of travel. But is it? I reckon airports are magical places, and there are so many free things to do in airports. This week, I chatted with ABC Radio Melbourne's Sunday program about the best things to do in airports over the world - and many of
- [Food of Saudi Arabia: Gourmet Traveller](https://globalsalsa.com/food-of-saudi-arabia-gourmet-traveller/) - Hot off the press, my travel feature in this month's Gourmet Traveller magazine tells of the food of Saudi Arabia, and the landscapes that created it. Focusing on the sublime oasis of AlUla, in northern Saudi Arabia. It’s mid-morning, and our camels are resting in the shade of a stone pillar. It’s a gharameel, the
- [The World Awaits podcast goes to Spain and Nauru](https://globalsalsa.com/the-world-awaits-podcast-goes-to-spain-and-nauru/) - It's been a big couple of weeks in GlobalSalsa World - Turkiye, Australia's Northern Territory and I've also also refreshed my podcast, with a fresh new name and a little nipping and tucking at the format. It's now The World Awaits podcast, and you can listen to the latest edition here . This week, fellow
- [Hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, Türkiye](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-air-ballooning-in-cappadocia-turkiye/) - This week, I've been in Cappadocia, Türkiye, possibly the world's best location for hot-air ballooning. Yeah, you've seen the brochures, you've been bombarded by the instagram shots of women in ballgowns in balloons. I couldn't resist: I threw my hat in the ring, and went up on high, too. My revelation, while coasting through the
- [Our new podcast has dropped: listen to Episode 1!](https://globalsalsa.com/our-new-podcast-has-dropped-listen-to-episode-1/) - Welcome to the very first podcast for Travel Writers Radio, which I'm co-hosting with fellow travel journalist and editor Kirstie Bedford. This week, we take you to Rome, Tasmania and Champagne. You can listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your podcasts. This episode, actress Alicia Gardiner talks about the filming locations
- [Teaser alert: the newest travel podcast in town has dropped!](https://globalsalsa.com/teaser-alert-check-out-the-newest-travel-podcast-in-town/) - I'm super excited to announce that I've teamed up with fellow travel journalist Kirstie Bedford to create a new podcast for the Travel Writers Radio show.
- [Six of the best historic hotels in Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/six-of-the-best-historic-hotels-in-egypt/) - Fancy splashing out on a luxury hotel for your Egyptian holiday? I’ve been to a few in my time, and let me say that this fabulous country is interwoven with blockbuster stories, best tapped into with a stay in one of its great historic hotels. Who’s your historical hero? Ramses II? Agatha Christie? Alexander the
- [Spend 15 minutes in Sarawak, Borneo](https://globalsalsa.com/spend-15-minutes-in-sarawak-borneo/) - Would you travel for laksa? I would! Come spend 15 minutes in Sarawak, Borneo - as I chat about one of Malaysia's easternmost states with Phil Clark, of ABC Radio's Nightlife program. And I'd definitely travel to Sarawak for its take on the famed Malaysian noodle soup, which the late American chef and food writer
- [Stars of the spa: the best spas in Victoria](https://globalsalsa.com/stars-of-the-spa-the-best-spas-in-victoria/) - Victoria has some of the best hot springs and mineral water bathing experiences in Australia; read on for some of the best spas in Victoria.
- [ABC Radio Monday Night Travel: Langkawi & Penang, Malaysia](https://globalsalsa.com/abc-radio-monday-night-travel-langkawi-penang-malaysia/) - Occasionally, I chat with ABC Radio's Nightlife presenter Phil Clark about travel for his Monday Night Travel segment, and recently we chatted about Malaysia - specifically two of its most loved destinations, Langkawi and Penang. Langkawi is all about getting away from it all: island-hopping in the Andaman Sea, visiting picturesque paddy fields and jungle-clad
- [Hotel review: cycling holidays at Bright Velo, Bright, Victoria Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-cycling-holidays-at-bright-velo-bright-victoria-australia/) - Those who love cycling holidays in Australia will know that Victoria's High Country is peak cycle territory. We're talking lycra on the main streets, ebikes galore, kids' tagalongs ... it's not just the pelotons who dominate the roads. One of the main reasons this area - three hours' drive from Melbourne, just before you hit
- [Airline review: Madrid to Cairo with Egyptair](https://globalsalsa.com/airline-review-madrid-to-cairo-with-egyptair/) - Airline review of Egyptair Madrid to Cairo
- [A traveller's guide for new architecture openings in 2023](https://globalsalsa.com/a-travellers-guide-for-new-architecture-openings-in-2023/) - What does architecture need to get onto your travel wishlist? To be a record-breaker? To be cleverly reused and recycled? To be innovative and sustainable? All these conversations are happening in Copenhagen this year, as the 2023 World Capital of Architecture. The triennial event includes Open House opening buildings normally closed to the public, a
- [Travel Writers Radio: Victoria's High Country by ebike](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-writers-radio-victorias-high-country-by-ebike/) - Fancy cycling Victoria's High Country, but don't want to go the whole Tour de France? Ebikes, friends. Recently, I cruised the 68km from Beechworth to Bright on the Mountains to Murray rail trail on an ebike; the first time I've traded my road bike for one of these cruisy little numbers. I chatted to Graeme Belinda Jackson - international travel writer & journalist
- [Better than Bali? Why Malaysia should be on your travel radar in 2023](https://globalsalsa.com/better-than-bali-why-malaysia-should-be-on-your-travel-radar-in-2023/) - Some destinations are once-in-a-lifetime destinations - think Antarctica or Svalbard. Others, like Bali, receive an annual visit from many Aussies. Malaysia is one of those that falls in between - before the rise of the Middle Eastern hubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur (KL to its friends), Bangkok and Hong Kong were the
- [Pyramid selling: Cairo returns to the sun](https://globalsalsa.com/pyramid-selling-cairo-returns-to-the-sun/) - This year is a bumper year for Egypt and for travel in Cairo.
- [Terminal boredom: free things to do in airports](https://globalsalsa.com/terminal-boredom-free-things-to-do-in-airports/) - I don't mind wandering airports - empty or busy, I find them a fabulous use of time. I love the exotic layers you'll find in the big, Middle Eastern hubs, as yogawear-clad Australian girls sit alongside men in Oman's national dress of gleaming white dishdasha, or hikers unlace their heavy boots beside the perfectly manicured
- [State of the nation: Jimmy Rees’s Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/state-of-the-nation-jimmy-reess-australia/) - What saved you during Australia's lockdowns? Was it cake? Boxes of wine or chocolates? Netflix, or perhaps it was Jimmy Rees. The Melbourne-based comedian found himself unemployed at the beginning of the pandemic, and in his own words, just started mucking around with videos that he posted on social media - see media www.jimmyrees.com.au And
- [Women in Saudi Arabia](https://globalsalsa.com/women-in-saudi-arabia/) - Until late 2019, I could not visit Saudi Arabia as a solo, female traveller. Only business visa holders and religious pilgrims could visit Saudi Arabia, and even then, as a woman, I would have needed to be accompanied by a male guardian. Living in Egypt in the late noughties, my father had passed away, I
- [ABC Radio interview: luxury train travel in Central Asia](https://globalsalsa.com/abc-radio-interview-luxury-train-travel-in-central-asia/) - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan: how romantic are the names of these Central Asian countries? Travelling in them has been a long-held dream of mine. I travelled along the legendary Silk Road by luxury train, visiting these three, historic countries- exploring their history, their food and their glorious architecture. I don't use the 'trip-of-a-lifetime' phrase lightly,
- [The rise of women-only tours in Islamic countries](https://globalsalsa.com/the-rise-of-women-only-tours-in-islamic-countries/) - Coming to you - most appropriately - from Cairo today, I'm sharing my latest story about the rise of women-only tours in the Middle East and surrounds. When talking about travel in Islamic countries, top of the list of reasons why people refuse to visit is the treatment of women: the lack of access to
- [Walk into Jordan's colourful, poetic heart on the Jordan Trail](https://globalsalsa.com/walk-into-jordans-colourful-poetic-heart-on-the-jordan-trail/) - With its Crusader castles and Roman ruins, the Dead Sea and the rose-colored jewel of Petra, the Jordan Trail leads walkers into its poetic, colorful heart. Long-distance walking holidays are a worldwide phenomenon, not just in the US with its vast trails, or the routes that criss-cross the United Kingdom, or here in Australia, which
- [Hiking in the Grampians National Park: Victoria, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/hiking-in-the-grampians-national-park-victoria-australia/) - The new Grampians Peak Trail is a hiking route that spans 160 kilometers of terrain through the Gariwerd/Grampians National Park in western Victoria, Australia. It's an amalgamation of existing trails and 100km of new paths through the national park. Some parts can easily be walked by families with kids - I even spotted little ones
- [The dish we missed: chefs name their most delicious travel memories](https://globalsalsa.com/the-dish-we-missed-chefs-name-their-most-delicious-travel-memories/) - After two years of lockdown here in Australia, where we couldn't leave our country, what's the dish you missed the most? I chatted to 10 of Sydney and Melbourne's top chefs about those delicious travel memories they hold dear, and where they're heading when they're back on a plane this year. I reckon I'm booking
- [Lies, spies and disguise: visiting Albania's museums of secret surveillance](https://globalsalsa.com/lies-spies-and-disguise-visiting-albanias-museums-of-secret-surveillance/) - If you ever wanted to indulge your conspiracy theories, Albania is a great place to do it. The mountainous little country looks out to the heel of Italy’s boot, and for the last century, has played out as a field for war, foreign occupation and annexation, and the enactment of fantasies of next-level paranoid dictators.
- [Take a break: short escapes in Victoria, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/take-a-break-short-escapes-in-victoria-australia/) - Take two days on the Mornington Peninsula or the Yarra Valley, or three days in the Grampians? What's your choice for your short escape this autumn? In the Grampians, three hours north-west of Melbourne, you should hit the track on the new Grampians Peak Trail (visitgrampians.com.au), which cuts north-south through Gariwerd-Grampians National Park. You don't
- [Podcast: travelling in the Middle East](https://globalsalsa.com/podcast-travelling-in-the-middle-east/) - Recently, I went to Saudi Arabia for a holiday. Is that a weird thing to say? Travelling in the Middle East is a guaranteed dinner party starter: travellers either love it or swear they'll never set foot in any of its countries - from Egypt to the United Arab Emirate, Saudi Arabia to Qatar. I
- [Australian expats: celebrity stylist in Midtown Manhattan](https://globalsalsa.com/australian-expats-celebrity-stylist-in-midtown-manhattan/) - After nearly two full years, I'm so pleased to let you know that my Expat column is back! Published each week at Traveller, I hunt down Australian expats living around the globe, and ask Australian expat Lazarus Douvos lives in Midtown Manhattan, NYC, USA them to share a little of their lives with our readers.
- [On high on the new Ain Dubai: the world's largest ferris wheel](https://globalsalsa.com/on-high-on-the-new-ain-dubai-the-worlds-largest-ferris-wheel/) - My first story this year has an appropriate high note - it's my review of Ain Dubai, the world's largest observation wheel.
- [Give the gift of travel this Christmas](https://globalsalsa.com/give-the-gift-of-travel-this-christmas/) - Why not give the gift of travel this Christmas, and help Australia's travel industry recover? As you'd know, our industry has had an absolute kicking in the past 20 months. Unlike footballers or construction workers, there have been no exemptions, no lifelines and few promises of a bright future. For this weekend's cover story for
- [Where to elope in the Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges](https://globalsalsa.com/elope-in-the-yarra-valley-dandenong-ranges/) - Where to elope in the Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges.
- [Click & connect: on creativity in the COVID era](https://globalsalsa.com/click-and-connect-on-creativity-in-the-covid-era/) - Recently, I teamed back up with photographer Jude van Daalen to talk about creativity in the COVID era, our collaborative project, ‘Together Apart: Life in Lockdown’ with Hobsons Bay City Council. Click here to listen to our podcast! Home Delivery is a new online program that delivers a hit of creative content every Thursday lunchtime.
- [Winter in the deep north: Oulanka National Park, Finland](https://globalsalsa.com/4500-2/) - Travel with kids for a white Christmas on a winter holiday in Finland's wilderness, Oulanka National Park
- [Ten great car-free towns: from Hoi An to Hydra](https://globalsalsa.com/ten-car-free-towns-from-hoi-an-to-hydra/) - Ten great car-free towns for walking holidays
- [A city sleeps: Melbourne moves into Lockdown #6](https://globalsalsa.com/a-city-sleeps-melbourne-moves-into-lockdown-6/) - Last night, I walked through the heart of Melbourne as we went into our sixth lockdown. The city's laneways rang with the sound of shutters going down as the city locked itself up. It was a pretty crazy time to be editing a guidebook for the city. But there I found myself, sitting in little
- [Men getting married: best buck's parties in the Yarra Ranges](https://globalsalsa.com/men-getting-married-best-bucks-parties-in-the-yarra-valley/) - Eight ideas for bachelor parties in the Yarra Ranges
- [Down on the farm, Bhutan style](https://globalsalsa.com/down-on-farm-bhutan-style/) - My farmhouse, Phobjike valley It’s seven o’clock at night and the family has sat down for dinner. I can’t say the Jones family, because Bhutanese don’t use surnames. But to draw you a picture, there’s four generations in the room: granny and grandpa, mum and dad, their daughter, her two-year-old daughter and seven-year-old niece. They
- [Postcards from the edge: life in Melbourne's Lockdown #4](https://globalsalsa.com/life-in-melbournes-lockdown-4/) - Melbourne to return to (COVID) normal this week?
- [Camp Island the Great Barrier Reef's newest private island escape, Queensland Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/your-private-whitsundays-island-for-225-a-night-yes-please-camp-island-australia/) - Camp Island is the newest private island resort on the Great Barrier Reef.
- [Reports from locked-down Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/reports-from-locked-down-melbourne/) - Melbourne is now in its fourth lockdown - it's our fourth lockdown since the beginning of the global pandemic.
- [First look: new Next Hotel Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/first-look-new-next-hotel-melbourne/) - Next Hotel Melbourne opens
- [Luxury lounging on the mighty Murray River, South Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/luxury-lounging-on-the-mighty-murray-river-south-australia/) - Luxury lounging on the Mighty Murray River, South Australia
- [In the pink: nine of Australia's best pink lakes](https://globalsalsa.com/4462-2/) - Nine of Australia's most beautiful pink lakes
- [Ingineous: testing Bass & Flinders' at-home custom gin blends](https://globalsalsa.com/ingineous-testing-bass-flinders-at-home-custom-gin-blends/) - Custom gin blends use Australian botanicals
- [Secret seven: best places to see the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights)](https://globalsalsa.com/4447-2/) - Seven places to see the Southern Lights (Aurora Australis)
- [Egypt; The four unmissable sites of Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/4441-2/) - Four unmissable sights in Cairo, Egypt
- [Driving the Snowy Valleys Way, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/roadtripping-along-the-snowy-valleys-way-australia/) - Take a roadtrip along Australia's Snowy Valleys Way, from Gundagai to Beechworth, Australia.
- [Roadtripping on the Anti-Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/roadtripping-on-the-anti-great-ocean-road-victoria-australia/) - Skip the crowds on a roadtrip to Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
- [The hidden isles: Six of Australia's lesser-known island adventures](https://globalsalsa.com/the-hidden-isles-six-of-australias-lesser-known-island-adventures/) - Travel to Australia's hideaway islands
- [Budget isles: cheap stays on Australia's islands](https://globalsalsa.com/budget-isles-cheap-stays-on-australias-islands/) - Cheap and cheerful island holidays in Australia
- [Walking between the palaces of medieval Cairo: new TellMeWhere2Go podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/walking-between-the-palaces-of-medieval-cairo-new-tellmewhere2go-podcast/) - What to see in Cairo
- [The Fullerton Sydney Hotel: the best high tea in Sydney?](https://globalsalsa.com/the-fullerton-sydney-hotel-the-best-high-tea-in-sydney/) - Yes, green pandan kaya lamingtons are a thing, in a Sydney-Singapore mash-up for the best high tea in Sydney.
- [Heart to Heart: visiting the Great Barrier Reef’s most iconic reef](https://globalsalsa.com/heart-to-heart-visitng-the-great-barrier-reefs-most-iconic-reef/) - Travelling to Heart Reef, Queensland's most iconic natural sight
- [A tale of three cities: Colombo, Kandy & Galle](https://globalsalsa.com/a-tale-of-three-cities-colombo-kandy/) - Visit Colombo, Kandy and Galle
- [Airline review: FlyDubai to the Silk Road city of Almaty, Kazakhstan](https://globalsalsa.com/airline-review-flydubai-to-the-silk-road-city-of-almaty-kazakhstan/) - FlyDubai airline review, Dubai to Almaty
- [Virtual wine travels to Orange](https://globalsalsa.com/virtual-wine-travels-to-orange/) - Where to drink wine in Orange
- [Rise of the phoenix: Melbourne in lockdown](https://globalsalsa.com/rise-of-the-phoenix-melbourne-in-lockdown/) - Melbourne will rise again from its self-isolation during a new, strict COVID-19 lockdown.
- [Together Apart: life in self-isolation](https://globalsalsa.com/4311-2/) - Together Apart is a coffee table book about life in self-isolation in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
- [State of escape: busting out for the goodness of Gippsland, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/state-of-escape-busting-out-for-the-goodness-of-gippsland-australia/) - Travel in Gippsland, Australia
- [How to go camping (and love it): tips & tricks](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-go-camping-and-love-it-tips-tricks/) - Tips on camping in Australia
- [One morning, two icons: touring the Top End, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/one-morning-two-icons-touring-the-top-end-australia/) - Visiting Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks, Australia
- [Bringing Finnish Lapland to Helsinki, Finland](https://globalsalsa.com/bringing-finnish-lapland-to-helsinki-finland/) - Hotel review Lapland Bulevardi Hotel, Helsinki, FInland
- [Notes from a zombie zone: Turkmenistan's Ashgabat airport](https://globalsalsa.com/notes-from-a-zombie-zone-turkmenistans-ashgabat-airport/) - Inside the zombie world of Turkmenistan's Ashgabat airport
- [Industrial Revolution on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/industrial-revolution-on-the-mornington-peninsula-victoria-australia/) - Brewers and bakers, distillers and vegan dairy shops in Dromana's industrial estate
- [Growing up with the Mornington Peninsula](https://globalsalsa.com/growing-up-with-the-mornington-peninsula/) - How the Mornington Peninsula has grown up
- [How to sauna like a Finn](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-sauna-like-a-finn/) - Finland's sauna culture unwrapped
- [Vintage train returns to the rails, from Melbourne to Sydney](https://globalsalsa.com/4011-2/) - Slow travel, nostalgia, train travel
- [Travel at high altitudes: tips from Chile's Atacama Desert](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-at-high-altitudes-tips-from-chiles-atacama-desert/) - Travel tips from Chile's Atacama and Macchu Pichu high-altitude destinations
- [Tips for visiting Cairo's Pyramids: Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/tips-for-visiting-cairos-pyramids-egypt/) - Expert advice on visiting the Pyramids of Giza, Saqqara and Dashour
- [Best hotel breakfast buffet 2019: Helsinki, Finland](https://globalsalsa.com/best-hotel-breakfast-buffet-2019-helsinki-finland/) - How to eat Lapland, Finland
- [Tips for exploring Punta Arenas, Chile](https://globalsalsa.com/tips-for-exploring-punta-arenas-chile/) - Nine things to do in Punta Arenas, Chile
- [Walking the Camino: a guide to finding your feet (and heart, and solutions to life's problems)](https://globalsalsa.com/finding-your-walking-the-camino/) - Tips for walking the pilgrim route, the Camino
- [How to get along with Parisians: a cheat sheet](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-get-along-with-parisians-a-cheat-sheet/) - Etiquette guide to Paris
- [What to do in Prizren, Kosovo](https://globalsalsa.com/prizren-kosovo/) - Travel in Prizren, Kosovo
- [Sign of the times at the pointy end of Egyptian tourism](https://globalsalsa.com/sign-of-times-at-pointy-end-of-egyptian/) - Photo: Belinda Jackson The first time I visited the Pyramids, I went through the front door with several hundred other foreigners, all lining up for a photo of ‘kissing’ the Sphinx or ‘holding’ a pyramid by the fingertips. The other day, I went round the back, where a handful of guards nearly fell over to
- [The etiquette of swimming with whales](https://globalsalsa.com/the-etiquette-of-swimming-with-whales/) - Swimming with humpback whales, orcas and dolphins in Tahiti, Norway and Tonga
- [Pumas of Patagonia: wildlife experiences in Chile](https://globalsalsa.com/pumas-of-patagonia-wildlife-experiences-in-chile/) - Tracking pumas in Chile's Torres del Paine national park
- [Journey through three 'Stans](https://globalsalsa.com/journey-through-three-stans-uzbekistan-kazakhstan-turkmenistan/) - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- [Travelling with a clear, green conscience](https://globalsalsa.com/3944-2/) - Travelling with a light footprint
- [Street art goes to new heights: The Adnate, Perth, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/street-art-goes-to-new-heights-the-adnate-perth-australia/) - Opening of Adnate hotel has the southern hemisphere's largest street art mural
- [Putting Egypt's pyramids into perspective](https://globalsalsa.com/putting-egypts-pyramids-into-perspective/) - Discover Dahshour, Saqqara and Giza pyramids
- [Glasgow, Scotland: an expat's life](https://globalsalsa.com/glasgow-scotland-an-expats-life/) - Eat, drink, see and do in Glasgow, Scotland
- [Chatting about Chile's Atacama Desert](https://globalsalsa.com/chatting-about-chiles-atacama-desert/) - What to do and see in the world's driest desert
- [Healthy hiking holidays: from Patagonia to Tasmania and Spain's classic Camino](https://globalsalsa.com/healthy-hiking-holidays-from-patagonia-to-tasmania-and-spains-classic-camino/) - Hiking holidays around the world
- [How to... give alms respectfully in Laos](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-give-alms-respectfully-in-laos/) - Buddhist culture in Laos
- [Rise of the regions: new hotels in rural Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/https-www-essentialsmagazine-com-au-category-hotels/) - ecotourism in outback Australia
- [How to respect the Reef](https://globalsalsa.com/learning-to-love-australias-great-barrier-reef/) - Ecotourism in Australia
- [What to expect when visiting Cairo Airport's Terminal 2](https://globalsalsa.com/review-cairo-airport-terminal-2/) - What to expect at Cairo Airport's Terminal 2
- [Six of the best beach clubs on Bali's Bukit Peninsula](https://globalsalsa.com/3869-2/) - Pool, beach or both? Six great day clubs on Bali's Bukit Peninsula.
- [How to do Abu Dhabi with kids](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-do-abu-dhabi-with-kids/) - Play Batman, colour in, or get cool in the pool - Abu Dhabi ticks all the boxes for travelling with kids.
- [scUber dives into the Great Barrier Reef](https://globalsalsa.com/scuber-dives-into-the-great-barrier-reef/) - Ecotourism in Queensland
- [Hilton Manila hotel review](https://globalsalsa.com/hilton-manila-hotel-review/) - Manila's traffic is so bad a whole city of airport hotels has sprung up to service transiting airline passengers, including the new Hilton Manila.
- [Perfect pitch at Port Fairy's Drift House](https://globalsalsa.com/perfect-pitch-at-port-fairys-drift-house/) - Australian sleeper hit boutique accommodation adds new suites.
- [How to pack - a guide](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-pack-a-guide/) - You can really pack for two weeks' holiday with carry-on luggage only.
- [How to buy Western Desert art: an exercise in ethics](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-buy-western-desert-art-an-exercise-in-ethics/) - How to buy Western Desert art, ethically
- [Game on: kids in business class](https://globalsalsa.com/game-on-kids-in-business-class/) - Recently, my seven-year-old daughter put Etihad Airways' business class to the test en route to Abu Dhabi.
- [Chasing auroras in Tasmania](https://globalsalsa.com/chasing-auroras-in-tasmania/) - See the Aurora Australis all year round in Tasmania as aurora chaser Margaret Sonnemann shares camera tips and her favourite viewing points.
- [Cairo in a nutshell](https://globalsalsa.com/cairo-in-a-nutshell/) - Ten essential travel experiences in Cairo, Egypt
- [Stop Press!](https://globalsalsa.com/stop-press/) - I have an apartment *victory dance*! The trawl through Cairo's dirty streets has been long and arduous, especially when today I got shown the same apartment, TWICE. In fact, I was shown two apartments I had already seen before! But I had a good feeling about Hamid, one of many people I've spoken to on
- [Horsing Around the Pyramids](https://globalsalsa.com/i-dont-gallop-i-tell-mido/) - I don't gallop, I tell Mido. Ok, he says soothingly. We pass through the gate and into the pyramids, and it's a full five minutes before he whacks my little Arab stallion's backside, shrieks haaaaaa! And we're off! Tearing up the soft sand around the back of the Pyramids. Mido's the owner of Desert Storm
- [Cairo: The palace walk](https://globalsalsa.com/cairo-palace-walk/) - Lined with palaces, mosques, merchant’s mansions and markets, Cairo’s Al-Muizz is a contender for the Middle East’s most beautiful street.
- [Of myth, graves and art: Tasmania, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/of-myth-graves-and-art-tasmania/) - Tassie is as hot as it gets, with a bumper food scene, fabulous scenery and its Henry Jones Art Hotel, which claims is position as Australia's first art hotel.
- [Obsession](https://globalsalsa.com/obsession/) - I'm starting to think I have a camel obsession. But their lovely, long fluttering eyelashes, their sweet faces and their thick, matted hair just get me. Which is why I'm now lugging a 4kg camel blanket which I bought in Bahariya Oasis. The Oasis comprises eight villages strung between sand dunes and dry, barren plains,
- [The mighty Murray spins a winning yarn](https://globalsalsa.com/the-mighty-murray-spins-winning-yarn/) - My yarn about boating through the backwaters of the Murray River, in South Australia's Riverland, has won 2018 Best Australian Story under 1000 words at the Australian Society of Travel Writers' awards.
- [Emirates named world's best airline](https://globalsalsa.com/emirates-named-worlds-best-airline/) - Again, a battle between the Middle Eastern airlines versus the old fave, Singapore, and Australia's own Qantas just scrapes in at number 9 in the world's best.
- [Beautiful game, beautiful life: Camp Nou, Barcelona](https://globalsalsa.com/beautiful-game-beautiful-life-camp-nou/) - Action at Barcelona's Camp Nou. Photo: Belinda Jackson Big thanks to the man about the house for dragging me to Camp Nou, headquarters of Barcelona Football Club, to see his club in action. My story on the passion and the fashion of the beautiful game was published in the Sydney Morning Herald this weekend. (For
- [Just the tonic: blending health and hedonism on the Dawn Princess](https://globalsalsa.com/just-tonic-blending-health-and-hedonis/) - Thick and rich, the mud seems to pulsate with a life of its own, like an extra from Doctor Who. Scooping a hearty handful, it's just begging to be slapped on your face. Standing in a green paddock in rural Fiji, clad only in swimmers and smothered from ponytail to toenail in the green-grey goop
- [The Elphie, Germany's answer to the Opera House](https://globalsalsa.com/the-elphie-germanys-answer-to-the-opera-house/) - It's been dubbed the project of the decade and also the new Sydney Opera House. Finally, the Elbphilharmonie, in Hamburg, Germany, has opened to the public, six years late and 10 times the original budget – but who's counting? Hamburg's new concert hall (it's been nicknamed the Elphie - if that makes it easier to
- [Tang: Treasures from the Silk Road capital](https://globalsalsa.com/tang-treasures-from-silk-road-capita/)
- [Whales, worship and weird cabaret: the Tongan triumvirate](https://globalsalsa.com/whales-worship-and-weird-cabaret-tongan/) - Humpback whales bring their (very big) babies into the safe waters of Tonga each year, from July to October. Photo: Belle Jackson We've all been lamenting the devastation in Fiji from the recent Cyclone Winston, but spare a thought for Tonga, which was in the cyclone's frontline, and is still picking up the pieces. The
- [Places to eat in Vienna, Austria: Six of the best](https://globalsalsa.com/places-to-eat-in-vienna-austria-six-of/) - Start the day like a local with an eye-pokingly strong black coffee and a kipferl, the forefather of the croissant. Photo: Belinda Jackson From sausage stand to schnitzel, I give you are six eats you can't miss in Vienna (even if you are a Michelin-star obsessive). Road-tested one and all, they range from family heurigers
- [Beautiful game, beautiful life: Camp Nou, Barcelona](https://globalsalsa.com/beautiful-game-beautiful-life-camp-nou-barcelona/) - Big thanks to the man about the house for dragging me to Camp Nou, headquarters of Barcelona Football Club, to see his club in action. My story on the passion and the fashion of the beautiful game was published in the Sydney Morning Herald this weekend. (For the record, I did get him to visit
- [Six of the best: Stockholm's family-friendly attractions](https://globalsalsa.com/six-of-the-best-stockholms-family-friendly-attractions/) - Stockholm fun fair Groner Lund. I've visited Stockholm as a freewheeling adult, and also as a parent toting tots in midwinter ("Why?" I hear you ask. Trust me, I was asking myself the same question one deep, cold November. But family and the Northern Lights were calling. Both were in good form.) Anyway, should you
- [Travels in the land of honey and blood](https://globalsalsa.com/travels-in-land-of-honey-and-blood/) - Travels in the land of honey and blood, Balkans.
- [The grand dame of Aswan: hotel review, Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/the-grand-dame-of-aswan-hotel-review/) - On the banks of the Nile, Aswan is famous for the quarries that helped build Egypt's ancient kingdoms. It's also the home of one of the continent's best grand hotels.
- [A guide to Victoria's Mornington Peninsula](https://globalsalsa.com/a-guide-to-victorias-mornington-peninsula/) - In just five years, we've got five-star hotels, artisan gin distillers, we've got fabulous cafes and our great coastal walking paths have been mapped out.
- [Eating in Lake Como, Italy](https://globalsalsa.com/eating-in-lake-como-italy/) - Italy's luxury goes up a notch on Lake Como, where I fit in three decadent meals a day, capped by rizo, oro e zafferano (risotto with gold and saffron).
- [Expats: tips from Chiang Mai, Thailand](https://globalsalsa.com/expats-tips-from-chiang-mai-thailand-2/) - I’ve been on the hunt for Aussie expats around the world to share tips from their adopted home towns for a column in Sydney’s Sun-Herald and Melbourne’s Sunday Age. Melburnian Chris Chun is a fantastic artist and illustrator living in Chiang Mai, in Thailand’s north, so I tapped him for some great places to eat,
- [Expat: Tips from Long Island City/Manhattan](https://globalsalsa.com/expat-long-island-city-manhattan/) - Expat: tips from Long Island City, USA
- [The five places that made me: Ray Martin](https://globalsalsa.com/the-five-places-that-made-me-ray-martin/) - I love the fact that top Australian current affairs journalist Ray Martin was scared, lost and happy in Istanbul - after all, isn't that true culture shock? He name the Turkish capital in a list of his top five places that made me, for Traveller. "I was culturally and physically out of my comfort zone
- [Where to eat in Washington DC](https://globalsalsa.com/where-to-eat-in-washington-dc/) - Erik Bruner-Yang, Washington DC A couple of months ago, I met Washington chef-entrepreneur Erik Bruner-Yang at the glamorous Waldorf Astoria Shanghai, China, where he was part of a competition to create new iconic dishes for the hotel chain, which lays rightful claim to the Waldorf salad (amongst many others). When he wasn't cooking or overseeing
- [Seven dishes you must try on the Sunshine Coast](https://globalsalsa.com/seven-dishes-you-must-try-on-the-sunshine-coast/) - Seven dishes to try on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Australia
- [Mystic river: cruise along the hidden waterways of the Murray](https://globalsalsa.com/mystic-river-cruise-along-the-hidden-waterways-of-the-murray/) - [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]”Why isn’t the Murray promoted as an icon, like Uluru or the Great Barrier Reef?” If you’re not Australian, you probably don’t know the mighty Murray River (the ‘mighty’ is an unofficial sobriquet). It is Australia’s longest river, at 2,530km (about seven times longer than the Thames, but who’s counting?) It runs through four states,
- [Lindenderry Red Hill review, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria](https://globalsalsa.com/lindenderry-red-hill-review-mornington/) - The Lindenderry at Red Hill, on the Mornington Peninsula, defies its age with a sharp new renovation.
- [Australia on a plate](https://globalsalsa.com/httpwww/) - http://www.traveller.com.au/top-chefs-showcase-best-of-australian-dinning-at-exclusive-world-gala-102n22Australia on a plate It might be the greatest three-course meal in Australian history but the public won’t get a taste. Three of Australia’s top chefs, Neil Perry, Peter Gilmore and Ben Shewry, have been charged with creating our finest menu for a gala dinner in November to showcase Australian dining. The ‘‘Invite the World
- [Hotel review: Four Points by Sheraton Melbourne Docklands](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-four-points-by-sheraton/) - Looking for a well-priced stay in Melbourne? Take a look at the new Four Points by Sheraton, in the Docklands district. It’s superbly connected to the CBD by free trams, has a rooftop pool and 11am check-out. Nothing wrong with this picture! Click here to take a look at the review I wrote for the
- [Hotel review: Four Points by Sheraton Melbourne Docklands](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-four-points-by-sheraton-melbourne-docklands/) - Looking for a well-priced stay in Melbourne? Take a look at the new Four Points by Sheraton, in the Docklands district. It's superbly connected to the CBD by free trams, has a rooftop pool and 11am check-out. Nothing wrong with this picture! Click here to take a look at the review I wrote for the
- [Hotel review: Hilton Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-hilton-darwin-northern/) - It's peak season up in Darwin, as southerners rush north to escape winter (and hey, I'm not blaming anybody here - anyone notice that this is the second hotel pool shot I've blogged this week?) The Hilton is the city's only official five-star hotel, and the pool is one fine reason to check in. The
- [Hotel review: Hilton Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-hilton-darwin-northern-territory-australia/) - It's peak season up in Darwin, as southerners rush north to escape winter (and hey, I'm not blaming anybody here). The Hilton is the city's only official five-star hotel, and the pool is one fine reason to check in. The 236-room hotel has held this city-centre position for years: old Darwin hands will remember the
- [From Rajasthani fortress to boutique hotel](https://globalsalsa.com/from-rajasthani-fortress-to-boutique-hotel/) - Oh I've been bad - this poor blog! But the reason for my neglect is good: I've been tromping around the wilds of Rajasthan, specifically Bishangarh, a little village about an hour north of Jaipur. Photo: Belle Jackson The lure was the opening of the new Alila Fort Bishangarh, a fortress turned boutique hotel. I
- [Tonga: pitch perfect](https://globalsalsa.com/tonga-pitch-perfect/) - Tongan Beach Resort PHOTO:Belle Jackson “We Tongans party today, and there’s nothing on the table tomorrow,” a Tongan woman tells me as we queue at Tongatapu’s airport. It’s 2am, I haven’t even set foot in the country and already I’ve been warned that Tongans are hardened socialites. Looking around, I realise it’s true. You’re nobody
- [Tonga: pitch perfect](https://globalsalsa.com/tonga-pitch-perfec/) - Tongan Beach Resort PHOTO: Belle Jackson “We Tongans party today, and there’s nothing on the table tomorrow,” a Tongan woman tells me as we queue at Tongatapu’s airport. It’s 2am, I haven’t even set foot in the country and already I’ve been warned that Tongans are hardened socialites. Looking around, I realise it’s true. You’re
- [Escape to the country - Rutherglen's tower for two](https://globalsalsa.com/escape-to-country-rutherglens-tower-for/) - Photo: Belle Jackson A century-old French style winery in the Australian countryside - you'll have to go half-way between Canberra and Melbourne to find Mt Ophir Estate, but it's worth the drive. The working winery has been dormant for years in its location on the edge of Victorian wine town Rutherglen, but recently reopened its
- [Walking in Palestine: make hummus, not war](https://globalsalsa.com/walking-in-palestine-make-hummus-not-war/) - The turn of each year always calls for contemplation, and looking back at last year's travel, Palestine definitely wins as the most dramatic of the destinations I visited in 2017, which included Jaipur (India), Bali (Indonesia), Egypt, Greece, a brief fling in Qatar and plenty of lovely Australian destinations. Upload FilesIt's been a while
- [Expat: Long Island City/Manhattan](https://globalsalsa.com/expat-long-island-citymanhattan/) - We've got a great series of interviews at Traveller now: I get to chat with expat Australians all around the world, who share their tips and tricks from their adopted hometowns. This week, it's artist Denise Green from Brisbane, who has been living in NYC and working from her Long Island City studio for four
- [Mystic river: cruise along the hidden waterways of the Murray](https://globalsalsa.com/mystic-river-cruise-along-hidden/) - Captain Willow keeps an eye on our glam tinnie while we pull in for a cuppa on one of the backwater creeks of the Murray River, near Renmark, South Australia. Photo: Belle Jackson "Why isn’t the Murray promoted as an icon, like Uluru or the Great Barrier Reef?” If you’re not Australian, you probably don’t
- [Get out of town: Discover a Mornington Peninsula drive](https://globalsalsa.com/get-out-of-town-discover-mornington/) - Polperro Winery, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, AustraliaPhoto: Belinda Jackson It's an hour from Melbourne, and when you're among the leafy vines of one if its fine wineries, with an overflowing picnic basket, the Mornington Peninsula is a whole different state of mind. I had my first holiday here on the peninsula (aged 5 months), and still
- [From Rajasthani fortress to boutique hotel](https://globalsalsa.com/from-rajasthani-fortress-to-boutique/) - Photo: Belle Jackson Catching up on my poor, neglected blog. The reason for my neglect is good: I’ve been tromping around the wilds of Rajasthan, specifically Bishangarh, a little village about an hour north of Jaipur. The lure was the opening of the new Alila Fort Bishangarh, a fortress turned boutique hotel. I went crazy
- [Three of the best: inflight gear](https://globalsalsa.com/three-of-best-inflight-gear/) - State of Escape totes. Some people fill their carry-on luggage with ginormous headphones (I’m more of an earbud person, myself). For others, it’s bags of snacks (handy if you’re doing it lean, and on a low-cost carrier). I find that between a camera, laptop and big scarf, the corners of my inflight bag are filled
- [Light shines on Red Centre](https://globalsalsa.com/light-shines-on-red-centre-2/) - Australia's Red Centre is the dictionary definition of remote - scattered hamlets of humanity, vast cattle stations and long, open drives. Perfect for the baby roadtripper. No, really. It's just a three-hour drive on sealed roads between Uluru and Ayres Rock Resort to Kings Canyon, add on another leg and you've hit the heady delights
- [Of pharaohs and heroes: Journey to Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/of-pharaohs-and-heroes-journey-to-egyp/) - The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.Photo: Belinda Jackson I am so pleased to publish this blog about my recent article in Luxury Travel magazine. This is the first story I've written for a mainstream publication about Egypt since its revolution, back in 2011. The feature had the invaluable support of Abercrombie & Kent, which maintains its
- [Behold Germany's answer to the Sydney Opera House](https://globalsalsa.com/behold-germanys-answer-to-sydney-opera/) - It's been dubbed the project of the decade and also the new Sydney Opera House. Finally, the Elbphilharmonie​, in Hamburg, Germany, has opened to the public, six years late and 10 times the original budget – but who's counting? Hamburg's new concert hall (it's been nicknamed the Elphie - if that makes it easier to
- [The most amazing man-made structures in Asia](https://globalsalsa.com/the-most-amazing-man-made-structures-in/) - Bhutan's Tiger's Nest Monastery. Photo: Belle Jackson Faster, higher, longer and older: there's no doubt Asia plays the one-upmanship game when it comes to architectural statements. It's a tough call, making a list of the top 10 architectural statements in Asia. You could go crazy on weird shopping malls or kooky skyscrapers, or totally old-school
- [Six of the best: Stockholm's family-friendly attractions](https://globalsalsa.com/six-of-best-stockholms-family-friendly/) - Stockholm fun fair Groner Lund. I've visited Stockholm as a freewheeling adult, and also as a parent toting tots in midwinter ("Why?" I hear you ask. Trust me, I was asking myself the same question one deep, cold November. But family and the Northern Lights were calling. Both were in good form.) Anyway, should you
- [Welcome to Australia’s best beach (which you’ve probably never heard of)](https://globalsalsa.com/welcome-to-australias-best-beach-whic/) - Cossies Beach, Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Photo: Rik Soderlund It’s official: Australia’s best beach is …drum roll… probably nowhere you’ve ever been. This week past saw a chat with beach expert Brad Farmer, who has ventured across Australia, boardies on, notebook in hand, to find our best beach. His new book lists the top 101 beaches
- [Hotel review: Swissotel Resort Phuket, Thailand](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-swissotel-resort-phuke/) - Poolside at the Swissotel Resort Phuket, Thailand. photo: supplied. With Muay Thai in the gym, a broad sweep of beautiful white-sand beach, poolside kid manicures and Phuket’s cha long liquor at the poolside bar, what’s not to love about this family-friendly hotel? Set on the broad sweep of Kamala Bay, on Phuket’s west coast, Swissotel
- [Architecture tourism: The world’s inspiring new architecture](https://globalsalsa.com/architecture-tourism-worlds-inspiring/) - Louvre Abu Dhabi. Courtesy TDIC, Architect Ateliers Jean Nouvel Castles, towers, skyscrapers: all rich pickings for the travelling architecture lover. Why not add a hill of garbage, a modern mosque or the site of the world’s oldest drawings to your travels in 2017? There’s some crazy, dreamy, ambitious and unexpected architecture projects opening next year,
- [Lloyd's Inn review, Singapore](https://globalsalsa.com/lloyds-inn-review-singapore/) - Photo by Lloyd's Inn, Singapore It's woefully easy to drop a bomb on your hotel room in Singapore: Lloyd's provides a more budget-friendly alternative that meets the approval of design-hungry Singaporeans. If you're on the lookout for a hotel room in Singapore that doesn't bust the budget, check out Lloyd's Inn. Old hands will know
- [Japan's Hokkaidō tops Lonely Planet's 'Best in Asia 2016' list](https://globalsalsa.com/japans-hokkaido-tops-lonely-planets/) - The travel lists are coming thick and fast today! Hot on the heels of world's best airline lists, Lonely Planet has just issued its Asian hotspots for 2016. Here's what the Lonely Planet experts have to say: "Lonely Planet’s Best in Asia 2016 1. Hokkaidō, Japan “Hokkaidō's perfect powder snow put it on the international map, but it
- [Airline review: Qatar Airways economy class, Melbourne to Doha](https://globalsalsa.com/airline-review-qatar-airways-economy/) - A street scene from Doha's Souq Waqif. Photo: Belle Jackson Qatar Airways, the newest Middle Eastern airline to service Australia, does the Melbourne-Doha (Qatar) route and recently started flying from Sydney, with Adelaide-Doha in the wings. I flew Melbourne to Qatar on the way to Stockholm, and reviewed it for the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
- [Peppers Docklands review: Melbourne's newest five-star hotel](https://globalsalsa.com/peppers-docklands-review-melbournes/) - A couple of weeks ago, I popped in to the newest five-star hotel in Melbourne, Peppers Docklands. It's right beside Etihad Stadium, at the bottom of La Trobe St. Loved the Melbourne tram printed on the wall above the bed, the pool with a view and the crayfish omelette. And if you find pancakes on
- [Roberts' portraits the 'selfies' of their day](https://globalsalsa.com/roberts-portraits-selfies-of-their-day/) - With her huge blue eyes, plump rose-kissed cheeks and a tumble of golden curls spilling over her fashionable fox-fur trimmed coat, Lily Stirling is the perfect face of a beautiful new nation. Born in Melbourne's Lonsdale Street, Lily was about six years old when her father, a physician friend of prominent Australian artist Tom Roberts,
- [Mussels and brisket: eating Melbourne this week](https://globalsalsa.com/its-been-good-week-for-eating-in/) - It's been a good week for eating in Melbourne, and I checked out the new Marion wine bar, by chef-restaurateur Andrew McConnell in happening Gertrude St, Fitzroy. How's that for a minimalist menu? My pick is the mussels, who are enjoying a renaissance in the food world, and nduja, a spicy Italian sausage that's crumbled
- [Tom Roberts' cigar box lids a touchstone of Australian impressionism](https://globalsalsa.com/tom-roberts-cigar-box-lids-touchstone/) - I recently wrote a couple of pieces on one of Australia's leading artists, Tom Roberts, and was surprised to find the lengths that he travelled in Australia during his career, from the 1870s till his death in 1931. Not only did he criss-cross from his birthplace in England to his eventual homeland in Australia, but
- [Christmas gift guide for people who love to travel](https://globalsalsa.com/christmas-gift-guide-for-people-who/) - Buy a goat for Christmas...you know you want to, worldvision.com/gifts Thought about giving someone a goat for Christmas? It's time for *drum roll* the Christmas gift guide for travellers. No matter where your stocking is hung, in a snowy pine forest or on the walls of a beach shack, here are Christmas gift ideas that
- [The 16 must-see new architecture projects for 2016](https://globalsalsa.com/the-16-must-see-new-architecture/) - An artist's impression of WTC transportation hub, US In what's becoming an annual story for the Sydney Morning Herald, here's my round-up of next year's great architectural openings. Thanks, as ever, to Sydney architect and founder of Sydney Architecture Walks, Eoghan Lewis. Who doesn't love an architectural icon? While rising prices and global uncertainty have
- [Homecoming for Australia's cultural treasures](https://globalsalsa.com/homecoming-for-australias-cultura/) - Part of Kebisu’s headdress, collected in the Torres Strait from Maino by Alfred Cort Haddon in 1888. Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum The day he pressed his father's treasured ceremonial headdress into the hands of an Englishman, Torres Strait Islander Maino must have known life was changing for his people. "Maino gave
- [Australia's best resorts and hotels: The 10 best resorts and hotels in Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/australias-best-resorts-and-hotels-10/) - Australia's best resorts and hotels? That's a big call - take a look at this piece in this weekend's Sydney Morning Herald for the top places to lay your head in Australia. The writers named luxe safari lodges, industrialia in the Tasmanian wilderness, island stays and beach eco-resorts. On an urban note, I tipped the
- [Dolphin Island Fiji: Family experience for a chosen few](https://globalsalsa.com/dolphin-island-fiji-family-experience/) - Private paradise: Dolphin Island accommodates only six people. I'll be blunt, 2014 was a crappy year for our family, with loved ones lost and the distances separating those of us remaining felt keenly. I needed low-fuss nurturing, the chance to reconnect with my private thoughts and to reconstruct a life without someone who'd been there
- [Street art in Melbourne, Australia: The new hotspot outside the CBD](https://globalsalsa.com/street-art-in-melbourne-australia-new/) - Street art by artist Smug. Photo: Belinda Jackson Move over, Melbourne central, Fitzroy and Collingwood are the city's street new art heartlands. Chances are you've seen a tour group standing outside Movida restaurant on Hosier Lane, camera phones working overtime, two fingers up in the "victory" salute. Melbourne has claimed its position as one of the
- [Underwater clubs, living English literature, best kids' travel destinations: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/underwater-clubs-living-englis/) - FOOD: Up is down in the Maldives The Maldives likes to turn everything on its head: take, for example, Subsix, the world’s first underwater nightclub. The club, which is 500 metres out to sea and six metres under water, can be found at Per Aquum Niyama resort, which has also just opened Nest treehouse restaurant.
- [Victoria's food treasures: Close to home, far from tradition](https://globalsalsa.com/victorias-food-treasures-close-to-home/) - Fine fare at Shannon Bennett’s Vue De Monde Having a quintessentially Victorian food experience means eating locally, eating ethically, eating mighty well, discovers Belinda Jackson. Melbourne loves a good spread with a great back story, from the farmers who created your feast to the heart-warming social-enterprise stories served on the side. And you can
- [Melbourne's best street art in your home](https://globalsalsa.com/bring-melbournes-best-street-art-into/) - Melbourne's very proud of its street art, and one of our most recognised artists, Adnate, is releasing a limited edition of hand-finished giclee prints inspired by the remote indigenous community of Nitjpurru, in central Australia. I'll hand over to the guys from Juddy Roller street art consultants and curators, who will let you know how
- [Myanmar, floating whiskey bars and Australia's cutest animal, officially: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/and-australias-officially-cutest-anima/) - TRENDS: Discover secrets of Myanmar Myanmar has set our travel radars afire since Lonely Planet named it in its top 10 must-visit destinations back in 2012, when Australia lifted its sanctions against the country. Now, Trafalgar becomes the first of the larger group tour companies offering coach tours to enter the market in 2016. Its new
- [Cruise with Margaret Atwood, train bar in Melbourne, discover Aboriginal Sydney: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/cruise-with-margaret-atwood-train-bar/) - CRUISE: The Arctic explorer’s tale Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Robber Bride and a dozen other novels, as well as short fiction, poetry and children’s books, can sail through the Northwest Passage with the celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The cruise departs Kugluktuk, in Nunavut, Canada, following explorers’ footsteps to one the northernmost towns
- [Elan Soho Suites review, Darwin, Northern Territory: Weekend Away](https://globalsalsa.com/elan-soho-suites-review-darwin-northern/) - REVIEW The Getaway Belinda Jackson checks out Darwin’s newest hotel and its ‘‘help yourself’’ attitude. THE PLACE Elan Soho Suites, Darwin. THE LOCATION Darwin’s central business district, five minutes from Smith Street Mall and a 10-minute walk to the waterfront. THE SPACE The 4 1/2-star hotel, which opened in December 2014, has 301
- [Wildlife in the Top End, new hotels for Adelaide, chop-chop, shop-shop: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/wildlife-in-top-end-new-hotels-for/) - NEWS: Spike in tours to Top End Go deep into the tropical Top End to explore the wildlife of Kakadu and the Mary River on safari with Australia’s most decorated ecotour operator, Echidna Walkabout Nature Tours. ‘‘This is where nature is still in charge,’’ says director and guide Janine Duffy, who lists bustards, wallaroos and
- [Cruise Antarctica, shed light on the Philippines or find feathered friends: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/cruise-antarctica-shed-light-on/) - CRUISE: Ship in Antarctica Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten has turned its eyes from its Arctic homeland to Antarctica, doubling its capacity to become the largest provider of explorer travel in the deep south. Currently, its small expedition ship MS Fram sails from Ushuaia, Argentina, but in 2016/17 it will be joined by sister ship MS
- [Exploring Bray: England's most famous home county](https://globalsalsa.com/exploring-bray-englands-most-famous/) - Oakley Court hotel Bray Berkshire. Photo: Alamy The river boat hums down the Thames. Lush green gardens and gabled houses line the riverbanks as we pootle down towards one of Britain's most desirable villages: Bray, in Royal County of Berkshire. Tudor mansions and neo-Gothic piles; if the digs aren't fabulous, their present and former owners make up for it,
- [Continuing the hunt for Australia's ultimate hipster: Ned Kelly](https://globalsalsa.com/continuing-hunt-for-australias-ultimate/) - Armed and alert: Ned Kelly keeps a watch over you in The Cullen Art Series hotel, Melbourne.Photo: Belle Jackson Fancy eyeballing a death mask watching a courtroom drama of the Kelly saga or viewing other Kellyana (yes, there is such a word) tied in with the Ned Kelly legend? Following on from my Ned Kelly
- [World's top 10 airlines announced](https://globalsalsa.com/worlds-top-10-airlines-announced/) - Who doesn't love a good Top 10 list? Here's one of my favourites: the top 10 airlines in the world, according to the Skytrax World Airline Awards. Given I'm jumping on a Qatar flight from one end of the world to the other with then in a few weeks, I'm pretty happy to see Qatar
- [The outlaw in the frame:  Ned Kelly tourist attractions, Victoria, Australia's ultimate hipster](https://globalsalsa.com/the-outlaw-in-frame-ned-kelly-touris/) - Hero or villain, Ned Kelly was Australia’s original hipster, writes Belinda Jackson. I’m lying in bed and a masked man hovers nearby, clad in armour, brandishing a sawnoff rifle. And then it comes to me: Ned Kelly was the ultimate hipster. Unforgiven by Adam Cullen (Ned Kelly and Constable Fitzpatrick), 2011 He had the
- [KNOW IT ALL: Sweden. Five essential things to consider before you go…](https://globalsalsa.com/know-it-all-sweden-five-essentia/) - Five essential things to consider before you go to… Sweden 1. Most people speak English, but Swedish greetings are simple for even the most linguistically challenged: say hello, hej hej (literally, hey hey!), and goodbye hej do! Easy. 2. Swedes do lunch. Even fancy restaurants offer a dagens rätt, an affordable, set-price daily special featuring
- [Ski Victoria, prison sleeps and luxe trains in Ireland: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/ski-victoria-prison-sleeps-and-luxe/) - SNOW: Winter is coming Victoria’s ski season opened on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend (June 6), with more bang for its buck. The state’s most popular resort, Mount Buller, begins with fireworks and new snowmakers pumping out up to 30 per cent more snow (mtbuller.com.au) while nearby Mount Stirling’s renovated Nordic Centre ramps up its
- [Great trails, pub grub and shooting on safari : Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/great-trails-pub-grub-and-shooting-on/) - Port Campbell National Park. Photo: Mark Watson TECH: Talk the walk Hit the road on foot or by bike throughout Victoria with a new website that shows 15 great walking, cycling and mountain-bike routes, ranging from the iconic (Great Ocean Road or Wilson’s Promontory) to the obscure (Gippsland Plains Rail Trail or the Goldfields Track).
- [KNOW IT ALL: Alexandria, Egypt. Five essential things to consider before you go…](https://globalsalsa.com/know-it-all-alexandria-egypt-five/) - On the Corniche, at Alexandria, Egypt KNOW IT ALL: Five essential things to consider before you go… 1 You will get lost the minute you turn inland from the Corniche, which runs along the waterfront. Just accept it. 2 Egyptians call it Iskandariyah, but most people understand Alex. 3 Steer clear of
- [Art in Melbourne: Big guns and local heroes](https://globalsalsa.com/art-in-melbourne-big-guns-and-loca/) - David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album cover (1973)PICTURE: BRIAN DUFFY © DUFFY ARCHIVE & THE DAVID BOWIE Think big. Really big. Big as Beijing, Bowie or the Great War. Yes, that big. And they’re all coming to Melbourne for a calendar packed with blockbuster storylines, intriguing characters and high drama galore. The National Gallery
- [Singapore slings, Mystical India and train travel in Tassie: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/singapore-slings-mystical-india-and/) - West Coast Wilderness Railway Recently, I had to sling a Singapore Sling in the historic bar of Raffles Hotel, and the history was palpable. From the 'last tiger in Singapore found under the pool table' stories to the gracious verandahs with their rattan chairs and high teas. It's 100 years since the Sling was first
- [Seven wonders, by the road: Australia road trips to natural wonders](https://globalsalsa.com/seven-wonders-by-road-australia-road/) - A great view from the road: World Heritage-listed Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory. Photo: Steven Siewert Seven great icons, seven great road trips, Belinda Jackson discovers that the journey becomes the destination. Australia's icons come with plenty of drama – the world's oldest rainforest, world's biggest monolith and it's not called the Good Barrier Reef, is it?
- [KNOW IT ALL: Singapore Five essential things to consider before you go…](https://globalsalsa.com/know-it-all-singapore-five-essentia/) - Haji Lane, Singapore. Photo: Belinda Jackson KNOW IT ALL: Singapore 1. Eat cheap on the street: hawker (street food) stalls are carefully audited by the government and the people – a whiff of grit or one bad review and they’re toast. 2. Grab an MRT-bus card and skim the city like a local. The metro
- [The Maldives travel guide and things to do: 20 reasons to visit](https://globalsalsa.com/the-maldives-travel-guide-and-things-to/) - The world's first underwater spa is in the Maldives, at Huvafen Fushi resort. 1. HAIL THE TAXI Usually other countries' taxis are a source of great rip-off tales for travellers. Taxis here are jaunty public ferries linking the islands: most foreigners will use only the route between the airport on Hulhulé Island and the capital,
- [Of Uluru, porridge and babes in paradise: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/of-uluru-porridge-and-babes-in-paradise/) - FOOD The butler does it Lick the plates clean and eat your porridge: that’s the order when you visit Scotland during its year-long celebration of the land and larder. Merry May is Whisky Month, with the Isle of Harris’s first distillery opening in Tarbert (see harrissdistillery.com), follow a seafood trail down the west coast and
- [Airline review: Scoot business class, Sydney to Singapore](https://globalsalsa.com/airline-review-scoot-business-class/) - THE PLANE Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner – the airline received its first Dreamliner this year, for the Singapore-Perth and Singapore-Hong Kong routes. By the end of 2015, all Australian routes will be serviced by Dreamliners. THE ROUTE Sydney to Singapore. THE LOYALTY SCHEME Scoot joined Singapore Airlines' KrisFlyer frequent flyer program in April. CLASS Business class, seat 1H
- [Tate Britain art gallery: Art reincarnated](https://globalsalsa.com/tate-britain-art-gallery-ar/) - The spiral staircase inside the main foyer of the Tate Britain art gallery in London. Photo: Alamy London's Tate Britain shines from its $86 million facelift, right down to the cafe's teaspoons and fridge magnets, discovers Belinda Jackson. Once a stultifying swamp, then a prison for Australians' ancestors, Millbank, on London's Thames River, is home to
- [Guide to a three-day trip to Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/guide-to-three-day-trip-to-melbourne/) - Caffe e Torta, 314 Little Collins St, Melbourne. Photo: Belinda Jackson Want to drink coffee, sip martinis, frequent the best eateries and shop like a true local? Melburnian Belinda Jackson shows you how to pack it all into a three-day extravaganza. Sure, Melbourne's got Vespas parked outside sidewalk cafes and your tailored winter coat will
- [Snaptastic in Kakadu, Cape York hooked up and Queenstown communes: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/snaptastic-in-kakadu-cape-york-hooked/) - TECH Snap to it! Ditch the hard drive of photos you’ll never look at and go retro with Fujifilm’s Instax Mini 8 cameras, for instant gratification from instant photos. The camera runs on two AA batteries and pops out instant pics at a wallet-friendly 62x46mm. Accept its limitations – no zoom, no macro mode and,
- [Weekend in Kosovo, off to the Olympics, secrets of the Big Apple: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/weekend-in-kosovo-off-to-olympics/) - Palenque ruins, Mexico ADVENTURE Into the obscure Fancy a weekend in Kosovo? There are few corners of the globe that are not comprehensively explored, but Intrepid Travel has revealed four new destinations it says will sate the appetite of the most adventurous explorer. The tours are the first wave of unusual locations in its new
- [Switch to island time: Escape to the South Pacific](https://globalsalsa.com/switch-to-island-time-escape-to-sou/) - Balmy nights, glo-bright beaches, lush greenery, and welcoming people: the reasons for a South Pacific island holiday are as clear as its aquamarine waters. Just follow our South Pacific island travel guide for travelling like a pro. The hotspots While Fiji and Vanuatu are permanent favourites for Australian holidaymakers, we’re now starting to discover upcoming
- [In the raw in Phuket, Tiger trims down, checking out the Flying Doctors: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/in-raw-in-phuket-tiger-trims-down/) - FOOD In the raw on Phuket The luxury Sri Panwa hotel on Phuket’s southern coastline has opened its newest dining option, an authentic Japanese restaurant called Baba IKI. Order from the sake cocktail list and get up close and personal at the sushi bar with head Chef Haru, who trained under Iron Chef Boontum Pakpo.
- [Airline review: Jetstar business class](https://globalsalsa.com/airline-review-jetstar-business-class/) - THE ROUTE Melbourne to Phuket. THE LOYALTY SCHEME None unless you pay an additional $200 for a Business Max bundle, which earns points with Qantas Frequent Flyer or Emirates Skywards Miles and gives access to the Qantas Club lounge. CLASS Business class, seat 3C (aisle). DURATION Eight hours and 50 minutes. FREQUENCY Jetstar began flying
- [Farewell, toxic world: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/farewell-toxic-world-takeoff-travel-news/) - SPA Farewell, toxic world Learn to achieve true wellness in a world where we are exposed daily to toxins, in a once-off retreat at the luxurious Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat. The two-night retreat on the Gold Coast hinterland is led by Professor Marc Cohen, head of Wellness Discipline in the School of Health Sciences at RMIT
- [Build the perfect family holiday: choose from these 6 LEGOLANDs (or do them all!)](https://globalsalsa.com/build-perfect-family-holiday-choose/) - If you’ve got kids, chances are you’ve also got crates of Denmark’s most famous export, LEGO. In a classic case of ‘build it and they will come,’ this modest toy has built an empire. And its theme parks are about to rake over the world. Empire building LEGO is older than nearly all of its fans:
- [Taking a break in Shanghai, lounging like a lizard, Townske launches: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/taking-break-in-shanghai-lounging-like/) - NEWS Lounge on Lizard Island The luxurious Lizard Island opens its doors on Tuesday to reveal a multi-million dollar refurbishment. The resort, located 240km north of Cairns in the Great Barrier Reef, has been closed since it was damaged extensively by Cyclone Ita in April 2014. New to the island is The Villa, a two-bedroom,
- [Things to do in Phuket, Thailand: One day three ways](https://globalsalsa.com/things-to-do-in-phuket-thailand-one-day/) - PENNY PINCH Amble down to the food carts that congregate outside the mosque at Bang Tao before 9am for a classic breakfast of lod chong (bright green pandan noodles with coconut milk and red sugar) and sweet tea with Carnation milk, served in a huge glass stein (THB40). Hitting the beach is now a cheaper
- [On the road: Lang Co, central Vietnam](https://globalsalsa.com/on-road-lang-co-central-vietna/) - Well, today was the day that you do all the slog for: pay-off for all the rejection emails, all the silence from editors when you really need the cash, all the crappy deadlines and the ridiculous subjects you have to write about. Today ran pretty close to my idea of nirvana: yoga with real yogi
- [Things to do in Nadi, Fiji: One day three ways](https://globalsalsa.com/things-to-do-in-nadi-fiji-one-day-three/) - The Sri Siva Subramaniya Hindu temple in Nadi. Photo: Alamy PENNY PINCH Breakfast with the locals and grab a hot chicken curry roti from the smiling sellers outside Nadi's covered market ($1.25) then dive inside for papaya, bananas and mangos and kava drinking etiquette tips from the kava traders (free). Nadi is a Fijian-Indian town,
- [Sri Lanka: platter up on the spice island](https://globalsalsa.com/sri-lanka-platter-up-on-spice-island/) - Dried red chilies are a signature ingredient of Sri Lankan food. Photo: Kevin Clogstou Not for the faint-hearted or the waistline obsessed, Sri Lankan food is chili and spice-laden taste sensation and there is always enough to feed a small army. Belinda Jackson goes to the front line to taste the best of the
- [Famous Flyer: Deborah Hutton](https://globalsalsa.com/famous-flyer-deborah-hutton/) - Hutton rates driving through Provence as her best holiday experience. An African safari and the Maldives are on Deborah Hutton's wish list. WHICH WAS YOUR BEST HOLIDAY? Renting a car in Paris and driving to St Tropez over four days. I stayed at little inns and ate at great restaurants through Provence, really getting a
- [Walking Phuket's old town](https://globalsalsa.com/walking-phukets-old-town/) - Just back from Phuket, I absolutely fell in love with the colours and history of Phuket old town. It's chocked with gorgeous cafes, guesthouses and weird trinket shops wedged between mechanics, junk rooms and people's homes. If you're following my Instagram feed (@global_salsa), THANK YOU and sorry, you may well be sick of these photos.
- [FIJI: Suva’s white lady sees in a new century](https://globalsalsa.com/fiji-suvas-white-lady-sees-in-new/) - The Grand Pacific Hotel Photo: Belinda Jackson In search of Suva's old colonial soul, Belinda Jackson pays homage to the centenarian Grand Pacific Hotel, now celebrating a makeover that's 22 years late. She was dubbed "The Raffles of the South Pacific", and her title, the Grand Pacific Hotel, is suitably eminent. But to the locals, Suva's
- [Gone drovin' and hanging loose: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/gone-drovin-and-hanging-loose-takeoff/) - ADVENTURE Gone drovin’ Turn your horse’s head to the west on a new droving experience in the Riverina. There are just 20 places available on the new Long Paddock Cattle Drive, which sees you droving a mob of cattle along one of Australia’s iconic stock routes that’s still in use today. There’ll be plenty of
- [Getting snappy in the Arctic, trans-Australian training: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/getting-snappy-in-arctic-trans/) - It's been extremely quiet on the blog front, so excuse me while I drag the last couple of Takeoff columns up online. In particular, this photography competition, which will win you a $10,000 polar adventure, closes soon. So make it snappy! Cold snaps If ice is the spice of your life, enter Aurora Expeditions’ new
- [Buffets, I've had a few...](https://globalsalsa.com/buffets-ive-had-few/) - Small fry: mashed duck potatoes at the Sheraton Bali Kuta Buffets, I've had a few... I know I shouldn't start a blog post on a negative note, but... a pet hate of mine is people who will never try eating something new. Especially when they're on the road. Truly, I have morphed into my mum
- [Famous Flyer: Dawn Fraser](https://globalsalsa.com/famous-flyer-dawn-fraser/) - Water and her family inspire Olympic legend Dawn Fraser. WHICH WAS YOUR BEST HOLIDAY? Sun Peaks in British Columbia, Canada, with my daughter and grandson, then aged 3. He was being taught to ski by my friend, world champion Nancy Greene, and we stayed in a self-sufficient apartment in her lodge, which is great when
- [Ferry trip to northern Tasmania: The spirit of Tasmania](https://globalsalsa.com/ferry-trip-to-northern-tasmania-spiri/) - The Nut at Stanley, Tasmania The little french bulldog rolls its great eyes, a young german shepherd starts to howl, the ship shakes free of its moorings, and we're off. If you thought you had to get to the Mediterranean to go sailing, you've forgotten about our own modest sea crossing, from Melbourne to Tasmania.
- [Luxe lodges, tennis scores and the magnificent Magna Carta: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/luxe-lodges-tennis-scores-and/) - Havana, Cuba, one of the New7Wonders Cities A special congratulations to Australia's Nick Kyrgios, who made it through to the Australian Open quarter finals last night! Read more about what he's up to, below. NEWS: Seven new wonders Vigan, Doha, Havana: how many of the New7Wonders Cities have you visited – or could hit on
- [KNOW IT ALL: Five things to consider before you go to...Fiji](https://globalsalsa.com/know-it-all-five-things-to-consider/) - Dolphin Island, Fiji A quick hitlist for those few Australians who haven't tasted the delights of Fiji. I know you're out there. 1. The roads are seriously slow. The maximum speed in Fiji is 80km/hour, and 50km/hour through villages (of which there are many). Ignore Google, Nadi to Suva, 190km, takes a full three hours.
- [Alice eats England, camping kids, and learning to love London: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/alice-eats-england-camping-kids-and/) - KIDS: Colourful cubby Let your kids take their imagination on holiday beneath this colorful range of teepees. Available in eight designs including Cowboys, Montana and the multi-stripe, they are made from durable cotton canvas with a window and tie-down door. The teepees are 155cm high and come with five metal poles that are easy to
- [The ever-growing travel list: lodges to love in Peru, Tanzania, and Brando in French Polynesia](https://globalsalsa.com/the-ever-growing-travel-list-lodges-to/) - I've confessed already to being a list tragic, and now I have yet another new travel list, thanks to National Geographic. Their new Unique Lodges of the World collection has 24 good reasons to get out of town and head for the wilderness. I stayed in Zhiwa Ling Hotel in Paro, at the foot of
- [The 50 best travel finds of 2014 from around the globe](https://globalsalsa.com/the-50-best-travel-finds-of-2014-fro/) - Miss Moneypenny's, Noosa Yeah, I know it's already 8 January, but I'm still looking back... maybe it's because Australia really hasn't kicked back properly into work yet. Consensus is that next Monday is the day we all turn our brains on once again. I had many great discoveries last year, including the new COMO hotel
- [Sand-sational: Traveller writers divulge their favourite beaches](https://globalsalsa.com/sand-sational-traveller-writers-divulge/) - Sunset over Vomo Island, Fiji Photo: Getty Images. Happy New Year, everyone! The sun is hot, the beach is calling. While I've been unashamedly Instagramming sunsets from the beaches of my childhood, on the Mornington Peninsula (click here for a peek), I recently contributed my Pacific finds to a hitlist of the best strips of
- [Summer reading: a not-very-definitive list](https://globalsalsa.com/summer-reading-not-very-definitive-list_31/) - My first (and last) English Christmas was a shock to many senses: there was snow (albeit very light, very dirty), there were Brussels sprouts (surely only the English consider them a celebratory food) and there was television. As our Australian marketing machines constantly tell us, our Christmases are all about the beach, cricket and low-level
- [Cheeky views and eco-tours: travel news from Sydney to South America](https://globalsalsa.com/cheeky-views-and-eco-tours-travel-news/) - GEAR: Undercover viewsNew York, Paris, LA – you’ve been around, so let your knickers do the talking with prints of these iconic cities. Cheeky Australian design company Stonemen has teamed up with artists and photographers across the world to splash their work across our derrieres. The digitally printed, 360-degree underwear is seamless, which means no
- [Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year](https://globalsalsa.com/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/) - Christmas bell from Kashmir, India This year, for the first time in many years, I'm really home for Christmas, so I unpacked all the decorations, many of which have been sitting in dusty boxes for years. I'm not one of those people who lights up the front lawn with a carbon-blowing amount of electric Santas.
- [Destination Christmas: Takeoff travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/destination-christmas-takeoff-trave/) - CHRISTMAS:Best-dressed windows See how the world does Christmas through the best decorated windows throughout the festive season. Travel booker Cheapflights has listed the 11 most beautiful windows around the world, including Myer in Melbourne, which attracts more than 1.2 million noses pressed to the glass to see this year’s 3D ‘Santa Clause and the Three
- [Top 10 destinations to visit in Australia in 2015](https://globalsalsa.com/top-10-destinations-to-visit-in/) - If you can't survive the festive season without a list to hand, here's another one, this time for 10 planning ideas for your 2015 travels. InterContinental Hotel Double Bay, Sydney 1. Explore wild Australia in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory Wildly remote and deeply mysterious, Arnhem Land is in the far north-east of the Northern
- [What to buy travellers for Christmas](https://globalsalsa.com/what-to-buy-travellers-for-christmas/) - 5. Penguins in knitwear: could anything be cuter? These little 23cm penguins have been hand-knitted by volunteers across the world from excess jumpers donated to help clean penguins up following oil spills. Proceeds go to the Phillip Island Nature Parks Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, in Victoria. $24.95 each, penguins.org.au Nomads may not have any halls to
- [Holiday at home in Sydney: travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/holiday-at-home-in-sydney-travel-news/) - HOTEL Holiday at home Staycations – holidays in your home town – are the thing to do right now. Sydney’s Shangri-La Hotel in The Rocks is rolling out its new premium hotel rooms and club lounge following an $8 million makeover. The largest of the 90 Horizon Club rooms and suites is the two-bedroom, 242-square-meter
- [The real trip advisors reveal their tips for travel in 2015](https://globalsalsa.com/the-real-trip-advisors-reveal-their/) - Mesmerising Myanmar: Ancient temples and an increasingly modern infrastructure are the drawcards. Photo: Getty Images. So – what’s the next big thing? Travel experts reveal their tips for the coming year. With an eye on the hip pocket, we're looking at hometown holidays in 2015, say travel industry's chiefs. And while Asia is back on
- [Top cities for new architecture in 2015](https://globalsalsa.com/top-cities-for-new-architecture-in-2015/) - Philharmonie de Paris Go just about anywhere around the world and you are sure to find great examples of modern architecture. The new Louvre, Frank Gehry's first Australian building, 140 pavilions at the Milan Expo – it's a big year across the globe for lovers of the big build. MIDDLE EAST This year, Abu Dhabi
- [The sky's the limit in Sydney: travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/normal-0-false-false-false-en-au-x-none/) - NEWS The sky’s the limit Forget jostling for camera space out a bus window, Australia’s first glass-roof coaches are now on the road with AAT Kings launching two new buses. The glass-roofed coaches give a panoramic view of Sydney and the Blue Mountains. The coachline's Sydney Day Tours route also crosses the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
- [Poh spice, hidden Indonesia and hotfooting it: travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/poh-spice-hidden-indonesia-and/) - The phinisi Alila Purnama explores hidden Indonesia. CRUISERemote islands of IndonesiaExplore the rarely visited waters of West Papua on a truly luxurious sailing trip aboard the Alila Purnama. The five-star, two-masted Indonesian ship, or phinisi, sleeps just 10 guests and is owned by the Indonesian luxury hotel group Alila. The journey begins another world away,
- [Travel news: Takeoff November 9](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-news-takeoff-november-9/) - FOODA moveable feastPlan a DIY food tour around Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula on its new hop-on, hop-off sightseeing bus, which launched yesterday. There are 18 stops on the two-hour circular route, which wends its way from Sorrento, famous for its vanilla slice, to Portsea for a pint in the Portsea pub’s scenic beer garden and down
- [Cruising Norway and sustainable Melbourne: ASTW 2014 awards for excellence](https://globalsalsa.com/cruising-norway-and-sustainable/) - I'm super-chuffed to announce that I've won two awards at the Australian Society of Travel Writers' 2014 awards, which were presented at the annual conference, this year in Fiji. The awards were for best responsible tourism story, sponsored byTreadRight Foundation, under The Travel Corporation. This story, published in Honda magazine, is about travelling with a
- [Good Weekend's 52 weekends away](https://globalsalsa.com/good-weekends-52-weekends-away/) - Sometimes in this job, you just get lucky. And getting to stay at Spring Spur was lucky indeed. I didn't realise, but I'd ridden here, up in the Victorian Alps, years ago. The hard-working Baird family have since built new accommodation with their own bare hands. This is my inclusion in the Good Weekend's annual
- [Travel news: Freewheeling across the world](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-news-freewheeling-across-world/) - Cycling in the German Alps. Photo: Bruce Robertson Freewheeling Have bicycle, will travel. But if you’re not sure where to ride, click on to this serious collection of bike tours from around the world. At last count, the website listed 7000 tours in 123 countries for all levels of fitness, for road bikes, mountain bikes
- [Dressed to thrill: Gaultier fashion exhibition opens in Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/dressed-to-thrill-gaultier-fashion/) - Gaultier with Australian supermodel Alexandra Agostin. "It's not often an art opening turns into a discussion on trans-gender issues," an art curator said, gleefully, to me today. We were gossiping at the preview of the fabulous retrospective by fashion dynamo Jean Paul Gaultier. Surrounded by conical bras (you remember Madonna in THAT bra in her
- [Shanghai swing: Art Deco fashion](https://globalsalsa.com/shanghai-swing-art-deco-fashion/) - Look what popped into my inbox recently: these Art Deco men's slippers are pure Shanghai 1930s, with their geometric zing. They're the latest from Shanghai shoemaker Suzhou Cobblers,which specialises in hand-sewn slippers. Made from silk with a leather sole, they're a great souvenir from a great city. I popped in a hundred years ago (ok,
- [And the popular pick is? Poland. Takeoff: Travel news](https://globalsalsa.com/and-popular-pick-is-poland-takeoff/) - Warsaw's Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Town market square) And the popular pick is? Poland. Europe's latest hot spot offers a stunning mix of history, architecture and natural attractions. Warsaw is emerging as a rising star on 2015 and 2016 travel itineraries as Poland records a record high in tourist numbers. Key sights in the former
- [Eid Mubarak (and no gory photos, this year)](https://globalsalsa.com/eid-mubarak-and-no-gory-photos-this-year/) - Kakh al-Eid. Photo: Belle Jackson Eid Mubarak (Happy Feast), every one. This may be my first posting during the annual celebration of Eid al-Adha that doesn't feature a photograph of a bloody carcass. Instead, I offer you a far more genteel photo of Kahk al-Eid, a sweet shortbread that's traditionally eaten during the Small Feast,
- [Travel news: Glam with the Fam](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-news-glam-with-fa/) - It's tough being gorgeous when you're trucking nappies and toys, but help is at hand with the fairy godmother of fabulousness, LUXE Guides. The new pocket-friendly second edition of its Little LUXE Bali tours the island with ankle-biters in tow, and is summed up in its tagline, "How to go glam with the fam". Little
- [Travel news: Takeoff September 28, 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-news-takeoff-september-28-2014/) - The High Roller observation wheel, Las Vegas, USA KIDS What happens in Vegas… Can’t hold off till the kids hit 21 to visit Vegas? The new Children’s Discovery Museum (US$12, discoverykidslv.org) proves the desert casino town isn’t just an adult playground. The museum has a desert-themed toddler zone, an eco city, art play and detective
- [Ten travel experiences that will change your life](https://globalsalsa.com/ten-travel-experiences-that-will-change/) - Characters of Egypt. Photo: Belinda Jackson. If you've been living under a rock (or possibly not in Australia), you may have missed the launch of the fabulous new Traveller website, from Fairfax Media. To kick off, a handful of us were asked for 10 travel experiences that changed our lives. I nominated hanging off a
- [Como Maalifushi Maldives: Pint-sized paradise](https://globalsalsa.com/como-maalifushi-maldives-pint-sized/) - This new, luxury resort in the Maldives delivers a world of pleasure, writes Belinda Jackson. It took me three days to realise I'd lost my shoes. I'd kicked them off the day I hit the Maldives and never put them back on again until I crash-landed into the howling winds of a Melbourne winter, tragic
- [Melbourne-bound? Here are nine cafes and restaurants your kids’ll eat up](https://globalsalsa.com/melbourne-bound-here-are-nine-cafes-and/) - The back end of business from the Dreamworks Animation exhibition at ACMI, Federation Square. Photo: Belinda Jackson Hello, neglected blog. We had a chat recently with fellow travel writer Daniel Scott about where to hang while you're in Melbourne with kids. We spilled the beans on our favourite cafes, from pram-friendly Thousand £ Bend (will they
- [Takeoff travel news: August 31](https://globalsalsa.com/takeoff-travel-news-august-31/) - AIRLINE Greater Goode The movement to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution has just been boosted into the skies as Qantas adopts the RECOGNISE logo on its new QantasLink Dash 8 Q400 aircraft. Qantas Ambassador and Australian of the Year Adam Goodes says he is thrilled by the new livery
- [The hidden jewels of Sri Lanka](https://globalsalsa.com/the-hidden-jewels-of-sri-lanka/) - Ambassador House, Galle Elegant villas dot Sri Lanka's jungle and coast. Petite and chic, the true gem of Sri Lanka is its rising wave of beautiful boutique hotels and villas peppered throughout its wild, lush interior and sublime coastal strips. The tiny island has performed a staggering comeback - just three years after its 26-year
- [Sheraton Kuta Bali review: Calm amid the chaos](https://globalsalsa.com/sheraton-kuta-bali-review-calm-amid/) - Child's play: the hotel's infinity pool at sunset. Kuta is known for its traffic, its touts and its tattoos, but as Belinda Jackson finds, there are pockets where families can chill out. Arrayed in white linen, the Italian hotel manager glides between tables, chatting while the DJ eases us into the evening with a loungy
- [Traveller: Takeoff travel news August 10, 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/traveller-takeoff-travel-news-august-10/) - Zafara tented camp, Botswana LANDSCAPE Delta's new dawn Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a chain of lagoons and floodplains in the Kalahari Desert, has been named UNESCO’s 1000th World Heritage Site. From June to August, the delta trebles in size as it floods, attracting Africa’s great wildlife. Explore on foot, game drive, helicopter, on horseback or by
- [Traveller: Takeoff travel news August 3, 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/traveller-takeoff-travel-news-august-3/) - Bon Voyage shoes KIT World at your feet Click your heels and find yourself wherever in the world you want to be with the cutest women’s shoes from Venuzuelan brand Hot Chocolate. Imprinted with an old-school map of the world, they have a rubber sole for comfortable strolling and the soft polyester upper makes them
- [Traveller: Takeoff travel news July 27, 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/traveller-takeoff-travel-news-july-27/) - Budapest AIRLINES:Budapest bound In the aviation world, you’re nobody if you don’t have an Airbus or 50. The Dubai-based Emirates airline has just received its 50th A380, cementing its position as the world’s largest international airline. New destinations connected by A380s include Kuwait and Mumbai this month, with Frankfurt, Dallas, San Francisco and Houston coming
- [Traveller: Takeoff travel news 20 July 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/traveller-takeoff-travel-news-20-july/) - AIRLINE: Fresh bite of the Big Apple Our passionate affair with New York gets extra oomph when China Southern Airlines starts flying to the Big Apple via Guangzhou, in southern China, from August 6. The service will run four times a week on new generation Boeing B777-300ER aircraft to JFK airport, featuring cutting-edge touchscreens in
- [Neutral territory: hotel review of Alto on Bourke, Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/neutral-territory-hotel-review-of-alto/) - One of the city's boutique hotels is staking its claim as one of Australia's greenest hotels, writes Belinda Jackson. When I slip into the conversation that I'm staying in Melbourne's only carbon-neutral hotel, everybody is clueless. Yet it's in the centre of the city and has been there for a decade, making Alto on Bourke
- [Macaron madness: a food photography taster](https://globalsalsa.com/macaron-madness-food-photography-taster/) - The Mr Darcy of macarons: black sesame and blackberry fill. Photo: Belinda Jackson. 'Light, in abundance,' was the motto today, thanks to top editorial photographer Ewen Bell. I'm not quite sure, then, how I ended up with this study in grey (left), the result of a day's food photography taster with Ewen, fellow photographer Ian
- [Travel deals: Indonesia’s Gili islands](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-indonesias-gili-islands/) - Flying to Fiji's Mamanucas with the kids. Those looking beyond Bali into the rest of Indonesia's archipelago are finding themselves in the Gili Islands off the coast of Lombok, a two-hour fast ferry from Bali. Otherwise, we love Noos-aaah or pootling around Fiji by seaplane. If you'd prefer to play winter princess, check out a
- [Fifty things we love about travel right now](https://globalsalsa.com/fifty-things-we-love-about-travel-rig/) - The Sydney Morning Herald recently asked travel writers to share what we love about travel right now, from fabulous destinations to new technology (and vintage caravans, as per the photo). I confess that I love a good stopover, Oslo and not paying $500 for dinner. (don't you?) TRANSIT STOPOVERS Break your long-haul flight with a
- [Traveller deals: Tasmanian retreat](https://globalsalsa.com/traveller-deals-tasmanian-retrea/) - We all want to be in Venice, specifically at the Belmond, yes we do. Purse strings a little tight? Then lovely Launceston will do, for some winter warmth. Take the kids to Japan, take them to the Queensland islands in this week's international and domestic travel deals. GO NOW TASMANIA Get cosy this winter in
- [Travel deals: Shizuka Ryokan](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-shizuka-ryokan/) - The Peninsula Paris, now open. Go Japanese in Victoria or channel Peninsula style in Paris: the world is your oyster, so add garnish and drink it up in this week's international and domestic travel deals. GO NOW VICTORIA Save on an airfare to a Japanese spa and instead stay at Shizuka Ryokan in Hepburn Springs,
- [Crossing the Maldives (while also dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's')](https://globalsalsa.com/crossing-maldives-while-also-dotting-is/) - Photo: Belinda Jackson Endless beautiful islands, endless sun (except for the occasional monsoon), endless luxury. Immerse in all this fabulousness, it's easy to miss Maldivian culture when you're holidaying on the exclusive isles in the Laccadive Sea. So here's a quick fact hit: the local language of the Maldives is Dhivehi. It draws on Arabic,
- [Traveller deals: Seychelles bargain](https://globalsalsa.com/traveller-deals-seychelles-bargain/) - All things Mexican are so hot right now, so why not join the locals and celebrate their dead? Otherwise, live (extremely) well in the Seychelles, escape winter in Dubai or our own Daydream Island, or embrace winter in Melbourne. Hope you find something your heart desires in this weeks' international and domestic travel deals. GO
- [Travel deals: French Polynesia](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-french-polynesia/) - A local woman from the Sacred Valley, Peru. Take me to... Tahiti! Or Peru. I'm not fussy. Or perhaps one of the fabulous new hotels of the world, including the Sofitel So Singapore or Australia's own new regional art hotel, The Schaller Studio in Bendigo. Check out their opening specials, as well as a Kids
- [Travel deals: New Zealand](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-new-zealand/) - Matakauri Lodge, New Zealand GO NOW NEW ZEALAND Live well at the prestigious Matakauri Lodge, near Queenstown, and get the third night free on stays until July 31. Get cosy in a deluxe suite, with gourmet dinner and all lodge facilities, not to mention the views. From $1895 a person, three nights, twin share. matakaurilodge.com.
- [Bali’s newest club has ‘em screaming for more](https://globalsalsa.com/balis-newest-club-has-em-screaming-for/) - The screams were ear-splitting, and they rang out through the vast hotel lobby. “I want to go back to kids’ club!” shrieked Mme Three, as we attempted to check out of the hotel. Happily, the general manager was within earshot (it wasn’t hard). At least someone was smiling in the room. We were test-driving the
- [Flying the world's best economy airline to warmer climes](https://globalsalsa.com/flying-worlds-best-economy-airline-to/) - Balinese dancer. Photo:Belinda Jackson That special moment when you find your laptop isn't charged and the sound on your airline movie screen is stuffed. Yes, that moment. All hail technology and dodgy electrical plugs. I knew it was going to be a weird one, long before even boarding, when the airport customs officer kept shouting,
- [Travel deals: rock the lobster](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-rock-lobster/) - Mandarin Oriental Taipei, Taiwan. Soak up the seafood and sunshine in Perth, shop Seminyak or sip South Australia... there's not much more alliteration left, so I'll stop right here to leave you to read this week's domestic and international travel deals. (Sorry, forgot to mention the fabulously chic baby-will-travel bag in this week's kids' feature
- [Travel deals: the Playford Adelaide](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-playford-adelaide/) - The Playford Adelaide. It's all sweet, chic and boutique this week, with Adelaide's boutique hotel The Playford on show, Melbourne's Art Series hotels on offer and a 'raid the minibar' deal while in New York. Otherwise, strap on your fringed white playsuits and head to the Deep South to celebrate the birthday of the coolest
- [Great Southern Land: Our Patch, Gippsland](https://globalsalsa.com/great-southern-land-our-patch-gippsland/) - Melburnians, if you were stuck for a weekend away, you'd do far worse than hitting the highway for an hour to South Gippsland. Here's what we discovered on a weekend away, visiting Inverloch, Cape Paterson, Kilkunda, Wilson's Promontory and the lovely crossroads of Fish Creek and Koonwarra. The shopping basket was packed with cheeses and
- [Get going: a new Shangri-La](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-new-shangri-la/) - Sule Shangri-La, Yangon, Myanmar To all ends of the world, from Chilean Patagonia to the new frontier of Myanmar, in this week's Sun-Herald travel deals. Closer to home, eat and sleep all things Manfredi on the NSW Central Coast or snap up the Novotel St Kilda's six-bottle special. Enjoy! GO NOW MYANMAR Stay two nights
- [Ultimate downers: ultimate travel experiences](https://globalsalsa.com/ultimate-downers-ultimate-trave/) - The world's most polluted city? Delhi, India.Photo: Belinda Jackson. Hi, travel stats lovers, as an addendum to the previous story on ultimate travel experiences, 'Boasters with the Mostest, here's five travel downers, from worst airline to most dangerous city. 1. Worst airline: Scat (Kazakhstan), Kam Air (Afghanistan), Agni Air, Buddha Air and Tara Air (all
- [Boasters with the mostest: ultimate travel experiences](https://globalsalsa.com/boasters-with-mostest-ultimate-trave/) - The world's highest bar, Ozone, in the Ritz Carlton Hong Kong Biggest, highest, most blindingly expensive. Belinda Jackson rounds up the ultimate travel experiences, from super-luxe to just plain boastful. LAND Longest walking track The Pacific Crest Trail runs 4264 kilometres from the US-Mexico border to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington. Budget five months
- [Trading places: Sri Lanka](https://globalsalsa.com/trading-places-sri-lanka/) - Winter is happily settling in to Melbourne: it's got its squalls, sharp winds and drizzle and is setting up shop quite nicely, thank you very much. If I could trade places, my choice (today, anyway) would be Sri Lanka, specifically on the banks of the gracious Tissa wewa (tank, or man-made reservoir), said to have
- [Catch your own fresh seafood: food adventures in Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/catch-your-own-fresh-seafood-food/) - Surrounded by sea, and with lakes and rivers aplenty, Australia is a fisherman’s heaven. Kiss the fish, eat the fish: your call. If you're dropping in to drop a line in, here are a few tips for fishing in Aus, part of Tourism Australia's campaign to invite the world to dinner with Restaurant Australia. Surrounded
- [Savour the flavour of Australia: Food experiences across Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/savour-flavour-of-australia-food/) - Tasmania's Red Feather has been serving patrons since 1842. Unleash your hunter-gatherer instinct with a do-it-yourself food adventure in Australia. So you think you can eat? Oh, much neglected blog, this is what I've been up to lately. This story was published by Tourism Australia, who is inviting the world to dinner with its newest
- [Get going: trek to Tibet](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-trek-to-tibe/) - The new Shangri-La, Tibet From Tibet to Canberra, we've got it all covered this weekend for the best travel deals around. Obviously, the theme is to get high: in the Adelaide Hills, the Blue Mountains or Peru's Machu Picchu. GO NOW TIBET Make the trek to the hotel everyone is talking about, the new Shangri-La
- [Get going: Singapore on the cards](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-singapore-on-cards/) - Sentosa Singapore resort. GO NOW SINGAPORE Sink into the five-star Sentosa Singapore Resort and save 18 per cent, with Wi-Fi and breakfast included. Book and stay by May 31, and you can layby your holiday for a $5 deposit. From $1174 a room, four nights. 1800 359 769, lowcostholidays.com.au. VICTORIA Stay in Kyneton - some
- [Get going: bound for Bali](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-bound-for-bali/) - 101 Bali-Legian hotel, Bali. Hi ho, the summer sun is still only just dipping below the horizon but it's time to think winter, with all the international resorts releasing their snow deals for the 2014 winter season, or drumming up business for summer in the mountains. Otherwise, there are olives to pluck in Tuscany and
- [Get going: Adelaide festivals](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-adelaide-festivals_20/) - GO NOW SOUTH AUSTRALIA It's festival season in Adelaide, with WOMADelaide and the Adelaide Festival top of the list. Save $20 on a stay in BreakFree Directors Studios, from $99 a night, or a studio at BreakFree Adelaide from $268 for two nights, saving 15 per cent, until April 30. 1300 987 602, breakfree.com.au. JAPAN
- [Search for the glow: Norway's Northern Lights](https://globalsalsa.com/search-for-glow-norways-northern-lights/) - The Aurora throws out a curtain. EDIT: I am very pleased to note that this feature, originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, has won the Australian Society of Travel Writers' 2014 award for Best Cruise feature. Dodging trolls and and black ice, Belinda Jackson rugs up to hunt the Northern Lights. Boarding the
- [Get going: party on the Pacific Jewel](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-party-on-pacific-jewe/) - Explore Antarctica with Abercrombie & Kent Hit the high seas or relaxing rivers with this week's international and travel deals, featuring cruises from Broome to Botswana. GO NOW BOTSWANA & NAMIBIA Cruise the Chobe River on the African Queen and save $420 a couple on a three-night adventure, until June 30. See water-loving elephants and
- [Tiaras and Tulle: Barbie does Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/tiaras-and-tulle-barbie-does-melbourne/) - Barbie is 55 and let me tell you, she's lookin' good. The real, live Barbie (looking 25 and very, very tall) popped in to Melbourne for a touch of high tea this afternoon and to promote her new movie, The Pearl Princess. The Langham, Melbourne, turned it on with a High Tea in Alto, the
- [Adventure beckons: Metung, East Gippsland](https://globalsalsa.com/adventure-beckons-metung-east-gippsland/) - Metung jetty at sunset. Pic: Belinda Jackson Coastal chic meets village vibes on a svelte strip of land that dips into the Gippsland Lakes. Everything happens around Metung's Village Green: from kids on swings to cafe culture to hopeful fishermen looking for a bite from a bream. The village is surrounded on three sides by
- [Get going: the cycle of your life](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-cycle-of-your-life/) - Cycling in Mallacoota, Victoria. GO NOW FRANCE Families get free ski passes this Easter, saving up to $440 a person, when staying in fully catered chalets in Verbier, Courchevel, Meribel, Val d'lsere and St Anton. Meribel's Chalet Christiane sleeps six, from $1280 an adult, seven nights from April 5. See powderwhite.com. VICTORIA Explore Victoria's Wilderness
- [Get going: dreams can come true](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-dreams-can-come-true/) - Daydream Island GO NOW QUEENSLAND Lie back on Daydream Island and save $180 on a four-night stay until April 30. Includes return ferry transfers from the Great Barrier Reef airport and water sports. Kids under 14 stay and eat free. From $598 a person, twin share. Phone 1800 075 040, see daydreamisland.com. BALI Save up
- [Sustainable Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/sustainable-melbourne/) - EDIT: I am very pleased to note that this feature, originally published in Honda Magazine, has won the Australian Society of Travel Writers' 2014 award for Best Responsible Tourism feature. Little Hunter, 195 Little Collins St, Melbourne Travel can be a guilty pleasure for the green-minded, but Melbourne shows how to blend ecology and exploration
- [Travel deals: Free Fiji](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-free-fiji/) - GO NOW FIJI Stay eight nights at the five-star Outrigger on the Lagoon with return airfares, $600 resort credit, butler service, spa treatment and kids stay and eat free, saving $2000. Book by February 28; travel until March 31. Worth $2790, from $1990 a person. Phone 1300 003 454, see myfiji.com.au. QUEENSLAND Be one of
- [Get going: Cable Beach Resort](https://globalsalsa.com/get-going-cable-beach-resor/) - Cable Beach, WA. Go west, to where camels roam the beaches and French champagne comes on ice. Yes, it's Broome. Or ski Japan, swank up to the Gold Coast or take a textiles tour through England and France. You know you want to, with this week's international and domestic travel deals. GO NOW WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- [Deals: relaxation on a Malaysian vacation](https://globalsalsa.com/deals-relaxation-on-malaysian-vacation/) - Giraffe Manor, Kenya Breakfast with well-mannered giraffes in Kenya, motor across the USA, sleep like a king in Malaysia... what's your mood this week? On the home front, it's freshwater lakes on Fraser Island, going remote up at the Kimberley's Faraway Bay or exploring Kakadu in all its green glory. GO NOW MALAYSIA Modelled on
- [Bunker down in top Tassie style, eat Paris or cycle New Zealand: travel deals January 26, 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/bunker-down-in-top-tassie-style-ea/) - Oh we love any excuse to look at a photo of Paris, even this improbably perfect one of the Eiffel Tower. Snap up a little city stay in the City of Light, cycle New Zealand or see how we Aussies do serious luxury. For something a little more laid back, it's sun loungers in Caloundra,
- [Adventure beckons: Aireys Inlet, Victoria](https://globalsalsa.com/adventure-beckons-aireys-inlet-victoria/) - Rock-pool-hopping at Eagles Nest, Aireys Inlet, Victoria. Photographer, Mark Chew. We love a craggy, snap-tastic coastline, horse rides on the beach, gourmet food and bush settings, which is why Aireys Inlet, sitting pretty between the big guns of Anglesea and Lorne, is so attractive. Aireys is where the artisan shop Lulu and Mr Q sells
- [Go underground, go outback, go AWOL: travel deals 19 January 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/detox-go-underground-go-outback-trave/) - Hanging around at Kamalaya, Koh Samui, Thailand Take a Thai spa, check into a cave hotel, rail across Australia or get the kids' skates on with new Skoot luggage. Go now: Turkey Explore Istanbul’s palaces, the limestone terraces of Pamukkale and sleep in a Cappadocian cave hotel on a 10-day Turkish Delights tour. Book by
- [Tripping the light fantastic: Northern Lights in Norway](https://globalsalsa.com/tripping-light-fantastic-northern/) - On Deck 9, Midnatsol, Norway. Photo: Bob Stephan There’s reindeer on the menu and light shows in the polar night, as Belinda Jackson cruises around Norway. The temperature says it all: it’s 2.2 degrees C but the wind-chill factor drags it down well below zero. The ground is slippery with black ice and it’s only
- [Vintiquing in Melbourne: best vintage & antique shopping](https://globalsalsa.com/vintiquing-in-melbourne-best-vintage/) - CoteProvence, 433 Brunswick St, Fitzroy It may be a 24-hour flight away but Melburnian Belinda Jackson says her home town holds rich rewards for antiques and design lovers holidaying in Australia. ‘Which do you like better, Melbourne or Sydney?’ It’s a question we Melburnians can't help asking international visitors. Maybe we have second-child syndrome: founded
- [2013: a year in the world](https://globalsalsa.com/2013-year-in-world_2/) - Sri Lanka masks Happy New Year! By now, most of you in the northern hemisphere should be scrounging around for the asprin or box sets of Dr Who - or, judging from Facebook, run a marathon or some other such oxygen-sucking activity. Here in the southern hemisphere, there are thoughts of work tomorrow. Ugh. Let's
- [Going, going, gone: last-minute summer holiday ideas](https://globalsalsa.com/going-going-gone-last-minute-summer/) - Still stuck for a trip this summer? Let us tell you where to go with these last-second holiday ideas compiled by Belinda Jackson. Throw the schedule out the window and cut loose. There's still time to plan and book a holiday this summer. Really. What about a fancy weekend on the Gold Coast, or a
- [The new world order: Myanmar and Sri Lanka our must-do destinations](https://globalsalsa.com/the-new-world-order-myanmar-and-sri/) - Stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka. Photo: Alamy Myanmar and Sri Lanka top the list of must-do destinations, industry experts agree. CHRIS ZEIHER Lonely Planet My pick for 2014 is Riga, the art nouveau jewel of the Baltics. The Latvian capital is a twin to Prague, minus the fleets of tour buses and crowds, and is
- [Six of the best: hotel openings in 2014](https://globalsalsa.com/six-of-best-hotel-openings-in-2014/) - The Shard, London. Soon to be home to Britain's first Shangri-La hotel. It's that time of year again, when the wrap-ups are wrapped, the forecasts are cast and we all enjoy a little panicking to get it all tied up neatly in time for a beach Christmas. I'm absurdly interested to see Hayman Island's reincarnation,
- [20 reasons to visit Colombo, Sri Lanka](https://globalsalsa.com/20-reasons-to-visit-colombo-sri-lanka/) - Colombo classic: The historic Galle Face Hotel. Photo: Getty Images 1 PETTAH Brave the streets of Pettah to pick up everything from fabrics and fruit to watches and wedding invitations. "It's utter chaos," the locals cheerfully admit. "You can get a suit made in two hours, though it may last only three." The streets are
- [Bill Clinton, Norwegian chess and the depths of the polar night: on the Hurtigruten](https://globalsalsa.com/bill-clinton-norwegian-chess-and-depths/) - The view from the Panorama Lounge on decks 8 and 9, MS Midnatsol. This morning was spent eavesdropping on two old fellas from San Diego: from taking photos with Bill Clinton, to Russia as a re-emerging military power and car parking in downtown San Diego. On this journey on the Hurtigruten, from Kirkenes in far
- [Catching the light fantastic: the Northern Lights in Norway](https://globalsalsa.com/catching-light-fantastic-northern/) - The view from deck 9, MS Midnatsol. Photo: Belinda Jackson I have seen the light! The Northern Lights! That shimmering curtain of luminescent green that cloaks the Arctic Circle in the winter months. Coy and as unpredictable as the Sydney bus service, we struck it lucky by spying the lights on our very first night
- [Norway asks: what does the fox say?  'Brrrrrr.'](https://globalsalsa.com/norway-asks-what-does-fox-say-brrrrrr/) - The new Astrup Fearnely museum, by too-hot architect Renzo Piano. “I hear it’s a bit of a backwater,” says an unnamed expat living in Sweden, looking across at neighbouring Norway. Talk about winning friends... but I’ve heard this before, Swedes sniffing at what they see as hard-smoking, hard-drinking Norwegians who are rich from oil, not
- [I shopped the world's largest IKEA and survived: Stockholm icons](https://globalsalsa.com/i-shopped-worlds-largest-ikea-and/) - This is not IKEA, this is Nybrokajen, one of Stockholm's beautiful waterfront streets. Far more picturesque. Photo: Belinda Jackson. It's been pretty wet here in Stockholm. I've traded Cairo's sun for snow, Giza ponies for Dalarna horses. The people in both Egypt and Sweden both wear a lot of black, but instead of busting my
- [52 Weekends Away: food and wine in Gippsland](https://globalsalsa.com/52-weekends-away-food-and-wine-in/) - Temptation personified. Photo: Belinda Jackson On a break from Cairo, here's a little number from beautiful East Gippsland. If you're in that neck of the woods (think Lakes Entrance way), make a beeline for this little beauty. BAG END AT RIVENDELL 926 Stephenson Road, Tambo Upper, VicPhone: (03) 5156 4317 or 0419 302 074Web:
- [Abu Simbel's time to shine: Egyptian antiquities](https://globalsalsa.com/abu-simbels-time-to-shine-egyptian/) - At the feet of the gods, Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photo: Belinda Jackson. There's a lot of change going on in Cairo at the moment, but some things, thankfully, remain the same. Later this morning, the sun will touch the face of King Ramses II in the magnificent Abu Simbel temple, south of Aswan, by the
- [Petting lions and paddling in the Med: a day in Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/petting-lions-and-paddling-in-med-day/) - A day spent swimming and patting lion cubs: in all, an excellent day in Egypt. Apologies for the silence, I’ve been offline up on Egypt’s north coast, where I had no internet, curfews (thank you, revolution) and not even a chemist for lousy cold tablets. It’s sometimes strange to think that Egypt is a Mediterranean
- [Building Interest: architectural tourism](https://globalsalsa.com/building-interest-architectural-touris/) - Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort, China. Build it and they will come. Or will they? Belinda Jackson rounds up the best newcomers on the architecture scene. Could you visit Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower? Or miss the Blue Mosque when in Istanbul? The Tower Bridge is a London essential and Cairo's pyramids are possibly
- [The night before the feast: animalia in Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/the-night-before-feast_1908/) - A young camel for sale in the souk in Nasr City. Cairo’s streets are always crowded, always colourful, but moreso this week, in the lead-up to Eid al-Adha, the great feast. Impromptu butchers shops have cropped up on major intersections, the fumes from a hundred thousand minibuses curing the slabs of beef, lamb and goats'
- [Of dusty plains and no-fly zones: welcome to Cairo!](https://globalsalsa.com/of-dusty-planes-and-no-fly-zones/) - Sunset over the Nile tonight, Cairo. Photo: Belle Jackson It looks like the khamaseen has come early to Cairo this year. The fifty days of dust storms that scour North Africa usually cover the city’s windows and put the grit in your teeth each February and March, but a strange cloud hangs over the city
- [It's just the two of us: mother-daughter travels](https://globalsalsa.com/its-just-two-of-us-mother-daughter/) - There's a world of ideas for a mother and daughter getaway with it all, writes Belinda Jackson. Shop, spa, eat, see and do - for mums and daughters, a trip together is a unique way to celebrate and refresh your relationship without the demands of kids, work and partners. Mums with teenage girls, snatch that
- [A ghost in the jungle: spotting lost leopards in Sri Lanka](https://globalsalsa.com/a-ghost-in-jungle-spotting-los/) - It's late, I'm slogging away on a deadline about Sri Lanka. Ok, I'm not. I'm blogging instead. But to take a break from wringing words from a bleeding brain, I started hunting for photos to accompany the piece, which has a breakout on leopard spotting in Yala National Park. And you know those weird things
- [Bargains in Bali and Britain, family-friendly fun in Malaysia: travel deals 29 September 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/bargains-in-bali-and-britain-family/) - The Sheraton Mirage Resort & Spa, Gold Coast, Qld. Grab an off-peak bargain on Britain's trains or in Bali's villas, be one of the first to see the revamped Sheraton Mirage on the Gold Coast, or splash out with the kids in Malaysia, a truly family-friendly country. Go on, you're worth it. Go now: See
- [Places in the heart: Kate Langbroek](https://globalsalsa.com/places-in-heart-kate-langbroek/) - Western Australia has the best beaches in the world, says Melbourne radio’s Kate Langbroek. And although the waters of Bass Strait may get nippy, you never regret a swim. I stayed at Cape Paterson, in south Gippsland, with (former radio co-presenter and comedian) Dave O’Neill about 12 years ago. His dad bought the block of
- [Living London style, Bali's newest digs and sweet Manila: travel deals September 22, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/living-london-style-balis-newest-digs/) - It's time to up sticks, quick-sticks, to London, and surely one of the loveliest rooms is the reception at The Levin, my favourite photo of the week. Otherwise, go tropical with a getaway in mad Manila - home of the shoe - check out a new resort in Bali or disappear just over the hills
- [Flying north for sultry sun in Queensland or Cambodia: travel deals September 15, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/flying-north-for-sultry-sun-in/) - Rumba Beach Resort, Caloundra, Qld Who doesn't love a sun lounger? Now we can stop moaning about the cold, our ire turns to the rain. Time for us to fly north to Queensland, don't you think? Or Cambodia or Uluru: it's nice and warm there, too. A word for snow lovers: time to check out
- [Junior suites: best kids' hotel rooms](https://globalsalsa.com/junior-suites/) - The Plaza, NY, USA From fire trucks to cats, hotel rooms appeal to the senses of youngsters by ditching the boring beige and daring to dream. Accosted by pirates and knights or wading in a sea of frothy pink: waking up in the stomach of a Nintendo game may be your idea of hell ...
- [The big six: west Bhutan lodgings](https://globalsalsa.com/the-big-six-west-bhutan-lodgings/) - The richly decorated Zhiwa Ling Resort, Paro Photo:Belinda Jackson Looking for digs in western Bhutan? Here's six of the best, from farmhouse to five star. Note that the government of Bhutan requires Australians and other foreign visitors to pay a daily tourist tariff which varies on the group size, and covers meals and 3-star accommodation.
- [Of giant mice and free feeds in Bali, Qld and California: travel deals September 8, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/of-giant-mice-and-free-feeds-in-bali/) - Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali Just because you've got kids in tow doesn't mean getaways are goners. It may mean, however, you find yourself surrounded by giant mice or are lured by the promise of feeding the children for free. Here's a taste of three kid-friendly faves in Bali, Disneyland and Queensland. GO NOW: USA
- [Big wheels keep on turnin' in Paris, Auckland and Ipswich: deals & kids' gigs, September 1, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/big-wheels-keep-on-turnin-in-paris/) - The Workshop Rail Museum in Ipswich, Qld Right. Instead of leading with a lovely pool shot or something pleasingly ethnic (think old Indian man or a Vietnamese cyclist), I'm appealing to the trainspotters amongst you. Specifically, trainspotters in Ipswich. With kids. That's Ipswich, Australia. I know you're out there. If I lost you at trains,
- [How to choose the ideal holiday home](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-choose-ideal-holiday-home/) - Peppers Bale Penthouse, with over 300sqm of Luxury, in its Absolute Beach Front Penthouse. Here's a thought guaranteed to scare you: Christmas is coming. If you're planning the great Australian holiday, here are a few tips when booking a holiday home that will set you ahead of the pack. But don't be shy: keep scrolling
- [Wheeling through South Korea, wining in dear old Lonnie: travel deals & kids' gigs, August 25](https://globalsalsa.com/wheeling-through-south-korea-wining-in/) - New to travel: cycling in South Korea. With winter just about out the window, you could be forgiven for thinking Tasmania's raison d'être has also gone the way of the Australian tiger. That's only because you haven't been to Launceston, up on the north coast. Interestingly (well, ok, interesting to me), a Brit once said
- [Loving the living in Melbourne, the world's most livable city, again](https://globalsalsa.com/loving-living-in-melbourne-worlds-mos/) - Pelligrini's bar & cafe, Melbourne If you were wondering where in the world to live, it's official - yet again: Melbourne has pulled off a hat-trick as the world's most livable city, three years running. The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual survey saw us bump Vancouver down to third place, and Vienna is in second. A
- [Shacktastic! Great Aussie holiday homes](https://globalsalsa.com/shacktastic-great-aussie-holiday-homes/) - Getting away from it all? Not any more — we want holiday homes that have it all... (or, as I've subtitled this piece in my noisy head, how we traded the caravan for the castle.) For generations of Aussies, summer holidays always started with a long, "I spy"-dominated drive to the beach. The accommodation was
- [Next best things in cruising: innovations in travel design](https://globalsalsa.com/next-best-things-in-cruising/) - Seabourn Sojourn's spiral atrium. Design is at the forefront of modern travel, with yet more innovations on the way in cruising. Here's what's happening on the high seas. Forget communal tables and allocated seating: it's all about how you deign to dine when you're all at sea. Crystal Cruises is one of many saying "no"
- [Sun, ski and kids' iPads apps for good, not evil: travel deals August 18](https://globalsalsa.com/sun-ski-and-kids-ipads-apps-for-good/) - Ski-in, ski-out Falls Creek, Victoria As the rain and hail beat down, a week in Byron Bay is sweet music to the ears in this office. But then, so is the idea of hot chocolate in the snowfields, especially as Falls Creek has cracked the one-meter mark! Sun, ski: choose your passion. There's also a
- [Britain boxes clever in the battle of the drives](https://globalsalsa.com/britain-boxes-clever-in-battle-of-drives/) - VisitBritain's postbox USB I thought Melbourne's tourism gang topped the competition for the cleverest USB drive with its little red rattler trams. But then I caught up with Visit Britain at Melbourne's British restaurant, Papa Goose, on the serious eating strip of Flinders Lane. Take a look at their little marketing number, loaded with press
- [Pony ballet in Melbourne, private islands in Cambodia: travel deals](https://globalsalsa.com/pony-ballet-in-melbourne-private/) - Song Saa island, Thailand Pssst, life is full-on, sometimes deals don't always fall on your desk when you planned. If you're ready to go, and go now, check these little babies out! GO NOW: MELBOURNE Combine a night of horse ballet and a city stay with the Cavalia show and Fraser Suites Melbourne until August
- [Colour my world: the textiles of Sri Lanka](https://globalsalsa.com/colour-my-world-textiles-of-sri-lanka/) - Barefoot's design house, Sri Lanka. I have fondled hemp throws in Morocco, lusted for Kashmiri embroidered cushions, gone cammo with Arabic scarves, and when my husband told me not to buy any carpets in Iran I deduced the man was obviously delusional: I was going to Persia, home of the rug. He'd given up by
- [Do Peru with divas or Prague on a pittance: Travel deals & kids on the road, August 11 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/do-peru-with-divas-or-prague-on/) - African drumming for families at the Darebin Music Feast, Sept 18-29, musicfeast.com.au Forget play doh, get the kids to shake it with an African drumming session this school holidays. Otherwise, hit Perth with a budget, Peru with a bunch of divas or find a bargain in Prague's historic old town in this week's domestic and
- [A material whirl: eight great shopping cities](https://globalsalsa.com/a-material-whirl-eight-great-shopping/) - Gorgeously photogenic babouches, leather slippers from Marrakech, Morocco Belinda Jackson lists eight favourite destinations at which to arrive with empty bags. Busted your luggage allowance lugging home a treasure only to find it in your local 'hood? The best shopping is a rejection of globalisation: it's about going back to the source or finding something
- [Skip to the sun or travel with a conscience: travel deals, August 4, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/skip-to-sun-or-travel-with-conscience/) - Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket If now is the winter of your discontent, get thee to Thailand: to Phuket, to be precise. Or Burma, which is so hot right now - in the tourist sense as well as talking temperatures. Australia's Gold Coast is always a favourite escape for us southerners, though this time, it's with
- [Five Fijian resorts under $450 a night](https://globalsalsa.com/five-fijian-resorts-under-450-nig/) - Who doesn't love a swim-up bar? The new $2.2m adults-only pools at Outrigger on the Lagoon, Sure, Mel Gibson owns an island in Fiji, but if your budget is Homebush than Hollywood, here are a few good options from the old faves of the Coral Coast to mysterious Kadavu, Fiji's large, southern island. Most do
- [Flight test: Drukair, Royal Bhutan Airlines](https://globalsalsa.com/flight-test-drukair-royal-bhutan/) - Drukair's home base of Paro International Airport is mediocre inside, but the traditional architecture is beautiful. Photo: Belinda Jackson THE ROUTE Paro (Bhutan) to Bangkok via Guwahati (India). THE PLANE Airbus A319. THE LOYALTY SCHEME None. UP THE BACK OR POINTY END? Business class, seat 4F. It costs about $80 to upgrade from economy class.
- [Royal babies and rooftop bars that give royal treatment](https://globalsalsa.com/royal-babies-and-rooftop-bars-that-tha/) - There's been a marked absence of royal baby babble on this blog - oh sorry, everyone but I'm going to break the silence. Because this (left) is surely the most beautiful baby's cake, from the makers of the most beautiful cakes. Ms B's Cakery is the braincandy of Hong Kong fashion doyenne Bonnae Gokson. Some
- [Hidden secrets on the Mornington Pen, Barrington Tops and foodie Sicily: travel deals July 21, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/hidden-secrets-on-mornington-pen/) - Discover the hidden secrets of Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, NSW's Barrington Tops, or a kids' getaway in Sydney. GO NOW: Discover the Big Blue Backyard at the Mornington Peninsula’s secluded St Andrew’s beach. Until August 31, stay three nights and pay for only two in one of their three retreats, with Cape Schanck nearby. Costs from
- [Kids in Paris: travel deal June 30, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/kids-in-paris-travel-deal-june-30-2013/) - Children in the Tuileries Garden, Paris. Pic: Hotel Le Meurice Paris in summer is a kids’ playground, with puppet theatres, donkey rides, carousel rides and duck feeding in the lake of the Tuileries Gardens. Stay nearby, at the luxe Hotel Le Meurice, between July 14 and August 29 and pay half price on a deluxe
- [Play in the snow, on the golf course or in New York City: travel deals July 14, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/play-in-snow-on-golf-course-or-in-new/) - It's all about playing: in the snow, on the golf course, in China or New York City, in this week's travel deals. KIDS: Kids 14 and under ski free on July 20-21, August 2425 and September 14-15 at Thredbo when they’re with a paying adult on a two-day lift pass. Also, the Learn to Ride
- [Tasting tradition: Ramadan kareem](https://globalsalsa.com/tasting-tradition-ramadan-karee/) - Cairo at sunset. Photo: Belinda Jackson Today is the first day of Ramadan 2013, which for me is about the scent of almonds, the sweetness of fresh dates and the call to prayer. If you're shaky on the whole Ramadan thing, it's Islam's holy month, where Muslims take time to reflect on themselves and their
- [Of white wallabies and chic Sydney babes: travel deals 23 June 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/of-white-wallabies-and-sleek-sydney/) - Bruny Island's white wallaby. GO NOW: TASMANIA The cutest little white wallabies are waiting to be seen on a Bruny Island Safari, which includes a gourmet touch. Usually $140, save $40 on Sundays or Fridays from July 1 to August 31, quote ‘whitewallaby’. Costs $100 a person. 0437 499 795, brunyislandsafaris.com.au. GO SOONER: NEW ZEALAND
- [The big chill: embrace or escape winter](https://globalsalsa.com/the-big-chill-embrace-or-escape-winter/) - From sun-filled sojourns to log fire retreats, Belinda Jackson reveals the hottest last-minute winter holidays. How do you do winter? With hot chocolate and log fires surrounded by people called Sven? Or by migrating north in a quest for eternal sunshine? Whether you like to escape or embrace the cold months, we have you covered
- [Spotted by locals: Lisa Gorman's Great Ocean Road](https://globalsalsa.com/spotted-by-locals-lisa-gormans-grea/) - Lisa Gorman: fashion designer, entrepreneur, mother Melbourne fashionista Lisa Gorman takes to the Great Ocean Road. Lisa Gorman's childhood was spent traversing the Great Ocean Road, so when this stylish Victorian recently went home for the weekend, her local knowledge came to the fore. "WE WERE FOUR SMALL GIRLS, fishing for eels, of all things,
- [TOURWATCH: Tall ships returning to Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/tourwatch-tall-ships-returning-to/) - Turn the clock back a century, to the era of the tall ships. The 55-meter Lord Nelson (pictured) is sailing the world, arriving in Australia in August. Join the barque as it sails from Fremantle to Perth and across to the east coast before voyaging on to New Zealand, where you can take the wheel
- [Shopping Seminyak: Bali beyond the basic](https://globalsalsa.com/shopping-seminyak-bali-beyond-basic/) - Eclectic treasures: Horn Emporium Seminyak's shopping is a treasure trove of fabulousness, as Belinda Jackson discovers. The girls are clad in a uniform of floaty tunics and kaftans, strappy sandals and big sunglasses, each arm jangling with bangles and glossy paper shopping bags. I run into them at three boutiques in a row and at
- [Some like it hot: a chilli reception in Bhutan](https://globalsalsa.com/some-like-it-hot-chilli-reception-in/) - Whipping up suja for breakfast on the farm. They breed 'em tough in the mountains, so when the mountains in question are the Himalayas, you can expect a level of resilience not found in us soft seaside dwellers. While the temps may be freezing on the mountains, the Bhutanese like it hot in their bowls.
- [Balinese food adventure, drink in the Napa Valley, hit St Kilda: travel deals June 9 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/balinese-food-adventure-drink-in-napa/) - Go on a Balinese seafood adventure, drink it in the Napa Valley or hit St Kilda, flashpacker style in this week's international and domestic deals. NSW Learn to love the snowflake at the annual Hunter Valley Gardens ‘‘Snow Time in the Garden’’, main picture, which runs through the winter school holidays. The festival features ice
- [Spotted by locals: Ella Hooper's High Country](https://globalsalsa.com/spotted-by-locals-ella-hoopers-hig/) - Ella Hooper: singer, songwriter, musician. "I seem to do more cultural stuff in the country. In the city, it's overwhelming." Pop-rock chanteuse Ella Hooper returns to her High Country heartland for a girls' weekend exploring the villages and towns of the Strathbogie Ranges and beyond. VIOLET TOWN, about a two-hour drive north of Melbourne, is
- [This morning's headlines from Bhutan: chillis, archery and elections](https://globalsalsa.com/this-mornings-headlines-from-bhutan/) - A Nepali-Bhutanese vegetable market trader. Plummeting chili prices upsets Tsirang farmers: chillis (a national staple) have fallen from Nu 150 to as little as Nu 15. The Bhutanese currency is the Ngultru, which is tied to the Indian dollar. Nu 53 = AUD1. Alcohol liver disease top killer (140 people died from it in the
- [Fags are going to pot and booze gets the boot in the healthy kingdom of Bhutan](https://globalsalsa.com/fags-are-going-to-pot-and-booze-gets/) - Punakha dzong It's been a while between posts, because it's been a while since internet. Hell, it's been a while since electricity. But what it lacks in power (ironic considering it's selling hydro-electricity to India) Bhutan makes up for in enlightening ideas. Here's a few to consider: Politicians must retire at 65 years, even the
- [What they're wearing in Bhutan right now: fashion show in Thimphu](https://globalsalsa.com/what-theyre-wearing-in-bhutan-right-now/) - My first night in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, was spent at a glamorous fashion parade. My second night was spent sitting on a farmhouse kitchen floor, eating rice with my fingers with a family of potato farmers. Curve ball tourism? Absolutely the place to be in Thimphu this week was the fashion parade that
- [Searching for the face of Bhutan](https://globalsalsa.com/searching-for-face-of-bhutan/) - I wish lived in a different, less politically-correct age, so I could write like Norman Lewis, who wrote that “The mulatta girls of Havana were seen to flaunt the biggest posteriors and the narrowest waists in the world”. I’d write that in this queue, waiting to check in to the flight to Paro, there are
- [En route to Bangkok](https://globalsalsa.com/en-route-to-bangkok/) - Bangkok airport. The soundtrack: Terry Oldfield on the chimes and meditation bowl, churning out a Healing Sounds journey – to get that pre-Bhutan Buddhist feelin’. The book: Norman Lewis’s ‘The World, The World’ – going old school, back to my early love, where travel writing all began. The scene: it’s like a cheerful cocktail party
- [From British royalty to Victorian winery walkabouts: travel deals June 2, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/from-british-royalty-to-victorian/) - Mediterranean flavour: Santorini is the final destination in Maeve O'Meara's Greek gastronomy tour. Photo: Getty Images Australia Queensland Make a date for a night in at the movies, at the QT Port Douglas hotel. Of course, being in the tropics, it'll be moonlight cinema. Stay any Friday, Saturday and Sunday night between June 22 and
- [Katrina Pizzini's ricotta & spinach gnocchi with creamy blue sauce](https://globalsalsa.com/katrina-pizzinis-ricotta-spinac/) - Here it is: the easiest gnocchi recipe ever, fresh from the Victorian high country. I took a photo and threw it up online, but someone suggested it made them want to throw up, so I may refrain from the graphics at this point. Gnocchi 1kg ricotta 500g spinach blanched, cooled, liquid squeezed out and pureed
- [Drink in the coffee, Rhone varietals or a Himalayan vista: travel deals 26 May 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/drink-in-coffee-rhone-varietals-or/) - Drink coffee in Brisbane, Rhone varietals in Rutherglen, or just drink in the view in the Indian Himalayas. Victoria Discover the rich reds, Rhone varietals and sweet muscats of Rutherglen at the Rutherglen Winery Walkabout, Australia's longest-running wine festival, on the weekend of June 8-9 (winemakers.com.au). Stay at Tuileries and save 20 per cent on
- [First bloom for bonny baby beauties: saying cheese in Victoria's high country](https://globalsalsa.com/first-bloom-for-bonny-baby-beauties/) - It's been a week since these baby camemberts were born, at the Milawa Cheese Factory in the Victorian high country, and their downy fuzz is just starting to grow. At Anna-Kate Pizzini's cheesemaking classes, we learned to make camembert from whole milk, then ricotta from the whey separated from the milk. The ricotta found its
- [Deep fabulousness in Vietnam, heli-ski New Zealand or frock up in Melbourne: travel deals May 19, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/deep-fabulousness-in-vietnam-heli-ski/) - InterContinental Danang Sun peninsula Resort, Vietnam Is this the most gorgeous photo ever? It was a toss-up between this fabulous shot of the restaurant at the InterCon Danang, designed by Bill Bensley, or the awesome NZ heli-skiing shot below. Reader: I chewed my nails for you. Enjoy this week's best international and Australian travel deals.
- [Make like Ellen on Hayman, jet across Australia, hike to Everest's back door: travel deals May 12](https://globalsalsa.com/make-like-ellen-on-hayman-jet-across/) - Ubirr, Northern Territory Make like Ellen on Hayman Island, air-cruise the continent on a private jet or hike to Everest's back door in this week's best domestic and international deals. TASMANIA There’s more to Launceston than the beautiful Cataract Gorge. Dear old Lonnie (as the locals call it) also has a sparkle in its step,
- [Brick? Brack! It's all Irish to me: recipe for Irish Bambrick](https://globalsalsa.com/brick-brack-its-all-irish-to-me-recipe/) - I was about to post this recipe, then I thought, that's not very travel-oriented. But wait! It's a recipe for Irish Bambrick! So it's time to break out the Bewley's tea (Van Morrison's fave), whack on the Claddagh CD (or Cranberries, Corrs, Boyzone - oh, Rohan - whatever takes your fancy) and carve up a
- [Bali: savouring Seminyak](https://globalsalsa.com/bali-savouring-seminyak/) - Fois gras trilogy, Metis Beyond the rice paddies and the beaches, Seminyak is the heart of Bali's dining scene - and whether it's organic, local or international, you'll find fine cuisine for all tastes. Seminyak's streets are pumping with a cosmopolitan array of chefs and restaurateurs, dishing up everything from Aussie steaks to Balinese crispy
- [Find beauty in Sri Lanka, Tasmania or Madagascar: island & beaches' travel deals May 5, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/find-beauty-in-sri-lanka-tasmania-or/) - Colours of Tasmania's Bay of Fires. Find beauty in a Sri Lankan boutique hotel, in Tasmania's Bay of Fires or in the bright eyes of a Madagascan lemur. QUEENSLAND Save up to $450 on a three-night stay on the Gold Coast’s beautiful beaches in the happening QT hotel. The Family Fun package gets you two
- [My fantasy island: Rangali Island, the Maldives](https://globalsalsa.com/my-fantasy-island-rangali-island/) - Conrad Maldives Rangli Island's twin bed overwater villa, plunge pool, deck & glass floor, At the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, there's no floor in the lobby: it's a desk on white sand. The sand continues through the restaurant, and all the way down to the water's edge. There, a little 12-seater Japanese grill restaurant dug
- [Shop LA, shake what your mama gave you in Cuba, luxe up on Orpheus: travel deals April 28, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/shop-la-shake-what-your-mama-gave-you/) - Orpheus Island,Queensland Shop it up in LA, hit Splendour in the Grass, shake what your mama gave you in Cuba... or just lie down, in style, on Queensland's luxe Orpheus Island. VICTORIA It’s baby love all round at the Halls Gap Zoo, with the arrival of Samari the giraffe. Get in on the ogling action,
- [We will remember them: Anzac Day tourism](https://globalsalsa.com/we-will-remember-them-anzac-day-touris/) - Momentous: 2015 will be the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipolli. Photo: Reuters Anzac Day tours remain strong, but many people are saving for Gallipoli’s 100th anniversary, writes Belinda Jackson. Commemorating Australia’s war dead at Gallipoli’s Dawn Service on Anzac Day is now an established travel experience, and tour operators say the numbers
- [Italian trains, Croatian hideaways and Kangaroo Island feasts: travel deals April 21, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/italian-trains-croatian-hideaways-and/) - Dubrovnik, Croatia See Italy by train, do Croatia beautifully, in boutique-hotel style or give a goat the eye on Kangaroo Island on an Australian food safari in this week's best Australian and international travel deals. NSW Wind down on the banks of the Murray River at Barham, between Echuca and Swan Hill, and take the
- [Chic digs in Paris, Siem Reap and Melbourne: travel deals April 14, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/chic-digs-in-paris-siem-reap-and/) - Geikie Gorge, Western Australia. A Parisienne apartment, Raffles hotel in Siem Reap, and the Como Melbourne: this week's international and domestic travel deals are all about chic digs. NSW Looking for an easy, passport-free school holidays? Take a spin on Katoomba's Scenic Railway (scenicworld.com.au) or watch battle re-enactments at Ironfest in Lithgow, April 20-21 (ironfest.net). The Blue
- [Step into the Famous Spiegeltent or on board a private jet for an African safari: travel deals April 7, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/step-into-famous-spiegeltent-or-on/) - Intercontinental Sydney Private jets are back, people. You mean you didn't know they were out of style, and had been hanging onto yours in a hangar out the back? Let someone else do the flying while you skim the continent of Africa. Or try Knight School in Sydney or glamp on the Great Barrier Reef
- [Fabulous Fiji and hot air in Canberra: travel deals March 31, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/fabulous-fiji-and-hot-air-in-canberra/) - Walk through three countries in a week, blow hot air in Canberra or just lay down amidst beauty in Fiji, in this week's international and domestic travel deals. ACT Celebrate Easter in Canberra, making your own Easter egg with a Canberra Glasswork artist on hand to help out at the Crowne Plaza Canberra. The hotel’s
- [It's guinea pigs on the barbie and Pi Mai in Laos: travel deals March 24, 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/its-guinea-pigs-on-barbie-and-pi-mai-in/) - To die for: Sofitel Sydney's Addams Family suite. Roast guinea pix in Ecuador with Celine Cousteau. Go on, you know you want to. Or stay with the Addams family in Sydney, sniff out a bottle of fabulousness in Tassie or hang with pandas in China, in this week's international and domestic travel deals. NSW For
- [Where Maggie Beer relaxes, Fleur Wood eats and wellness and eco escapes: Good Weekend](https://globalsalsa.com/where-maggie-beer-relaxes-fleur-wood/) - Where does Maggie Beer truly relax, and Fleur Woods find a Victorian gourmet getaway? Part of Good Weekend’s 52 ExtraordinaryJourneys that cover wellness retreats and eco-escapes. MAGGIE BEER, cook, restaurateur, author The experience: Consistency, attention to detail and utter relaxation on Kangaroo Island. "I have visited the Southern Ocean Lodge four times, as I host a
- [Can't get to Afghanistan? Here's the next best thing.](https://globalsalsa.com/cant-get-to-afghanistan-heres-next-bes/) - Gold hair pendant, 1st century BC - 1st century AD. Photo: Thierry Ollivier Afghanistan's been on my wishlist for years, but it seems every time there was the hint of open borders, the country would become a flashpoint for disaster on a global scale. So I could only imagine the wondrous beauty hidden in the mountainous country
- [Cruising on all continents: travel deals March 17 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/cruising-on-all-continents-travel-deals/) - Silver Spirit in Santorini, Greece. Cruise, baby, cruise. Get in quick to snap up a travel deal on the high seas. CHINA Cruise China’s Yangtze River on the 14-day Yangtze Splendour Deluxe tour that starts in Beijing and ends in Shanghai, with six days on the Victoria Sophia. The cruise itinerary explores ghost cities, gorges
- [Find the romance of Persia or follow the Great Migration: travel deals 10 March 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/find-romance-of-persia-or-follow-grea/) - Ancient cities, warm hospitality, wild landscapes: the romance of Persia is calling. Closer to home, get fabulous in northern NSW or Thailand, or follow the Great Migration across the Serengeti and Masai Mara. TASMANIA Walking is the new cycling, which is of course the new golf, and one of the best walking destinations in the
- [Colomboscope to get the town talking](https://globalsalsa.com/colomboscope-to-get-town-talking/) - Galle Rd & the Indian Ocean, Colombo. If you're in Colombo next weekend, pencil in a few events from Colomboscope, an arts festival curated by Sri Lankan author Ashok Ferrey. If I was in town, I'd be making a beeline for the panel of war reporters and a Sri Lankan army representative talking about massaging the numbers
- [Loving Mungo and Malaysia: travel deals 3 March 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/loving-mungo-and-malaysia-travel-deals/) - Tiptoe through the tulips, snap up a bargain stay in Malaysia or go mad for Mungo in our own wilderness, at the edge of the Outback. (Ok, so this column is up a little bit late, but you never know when a bargain will strike!) NEW SOUTH WALES Wring the last out of summer with
- [Going floral like a kid in a Kandy shop](https://globalsalsa.com/going-floral-like-kid-in-kandy-shop/) - The crush at the Temple of the Relic of the Tooth, Kandy I read a travel decorating piece a few years ago that gave tips on how to make your arduous journey more comfortable. One suggestion for the deco-minded was to buy oneself flowers for the hotel room – just like home. Our guesthouse tonight
- [Travelling, Sri Lanka style: Hatton's tea plantations](https://globalsalsa.com/travelling-sri-lanka-style-hattons-tea/) - Last night, we stayed in an old tea mansion in Hatton, high amongst Sri Lanka’s verdant tea plantations. The hills roll and tumble, every inch covered in short, green tea bushes that look so much like my wild camellia at home. The house, the Governor's Mansion, is all very jolly hockey sticks, with a picture
- [Colombo via Rum Jungle and Connemara](https://globalsalsa.com/colombo-via-rum-jungle-and-connemara/) - Flying from Melbourne to Colombo via Kuala Lumpur, the tv map on the aircraft wall has thrown up some gems – it’s listing Arthur’s Seat (a beauty spot on the Mornington Peninsula), Rum Jungle near Darwin (never heard of it but its allure is undeniable), and I learn there’s a place called Connemara somewhere near
- [Sri Lanka a-go. Going... going...](https://globalsalsa.com/sri-lanka-go-going-going/) - Just putting together the final touches on the moving carnival that is now en route to Sri Lanka, arriving at 23.59 this evening. Precisely. Thanks to my globe-trotting friends, I have my eyes peeled string hoppers, Ministry of Crab and luxuriant ear hair (thank you, Pete). More anon!
- [See Tokyo in style and go warp-drive in Sri Lanka: travel deals 10 February 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/see-tokyo-in-style-and-go-warp-drive-in/) - Click on for Mark Jensen's bbq octopus recipe, Noosa Food & Wine, Qld. Beautiful people eating beautiful food: it's Noosa in a nutshell come this May. Otherwise, Tokyo in style and knowing your warp and weft in Sri Lanka, in this week's domestic and international travel deals. QUEENSLAND Foodies will flock to Noosa from May
- [Places in the heart: Anthony Field](https://globalsalsa.com/places-in-heart-anthony-field/) - Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is ''chill city'' for Anthony Field, aka the Blue Wiggle, who says visiting the red heart of the Northern Territory is like going on a retreat. I first went to Uluru in the 1980s and I've been back five or six times, twice with my wife, Miki, and our three kids.
- [Bargains and bright ideas: from Middle Earth to Malaysia](https://globalsalsa.com/bargains-and-bright-ideas-from-middle/) - Fantasy: Sir Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand. Are you a shopper, a temple lover, volcano hopper and or film fan? Here's your escapade. Where to? New Zealand. The experience: Hobbit hunting on the North and South islands. Pack for: Middle-earth adventure in four-star style. Who goes? Lord of the Rings and Hobbit fans. Highlights: This 10-day tour is led
- [Dine in the desert, lap up the luxury: travel deals 3 February 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/dine-in-desert-lap-up-luxury-trave/) - It could only be the Maldives. Lap up the luxury in the Maldives, dine in the desert beneath the stars at Uluru or snigger like a schoolboy in Cappadocia, in this week's domestic and international travel deals. TASMANIA Small and beautiful not only describes the island of Tasmania, but also Hobart’s sleek boutique hotel scene,
- [Would you visit Egypt now?](https://globalsalsa.com/all-quiet-on-egyptian-fron/) - Adrere Amellal ecolodge, Siwa. Two weeks ago, I started writing a post about the idea of visiting Egypt once again. It was time: tour prices have halved, even from the most prestigious travel companies. The Lower Nile has finally been reopened so that a visitor can sail the entire length of the Egyptian Nile, from
- [Swing and sing across Texas: travel deals 27 January 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/swing-and-sing-across-texas-trave/) - Do glamour, Gregory Peck and gelato in Italy, swim with dolphins in Western Australia or hit the road, Jack, and swing across Texas, in this week's round-up of domestic and international travel deals. ACT Canberra’s centenary calendar is hotting up, with the National Archives of Australia showing exhibitions by photographer Max Dupain and on Britain’s
- [From Elysium to Middle Earth: travel deals 20 Jan 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/from-elysium-to-middle-earth-trave/) - The crowd-pleasing silvery gibbon, Indonesia. Track down the Asian Big 5, find Elysium in the Hunter Valley or hit Middle Earth, in this week's domestic and international travel deals. ACT With the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia (currently showing the Toulouse Lautrec exhibition) all within cooee of each
- [Tickets, please!](https://globalsalsa.com/tickets-please/) - The Shard, London. An astonishing line-up of new attractions awaits globetrotters in 2013, as Belinda Jackson and Julietta Jameson discover in their round-up of the best. For lovers of the highest, biggest, cleverest or freshest, this year presents a remarkable array of new attractions in all corners of the globe. From Paris to far-north China,
- [Getting out there with your fantasies: travel deals 13 January 2013](https://globalsalsa.com/getting-out-there-with-your-fantasies/) - The Gordon River, Tasmania. Live out your Man or Woman from Snowy River fantasy or check into the Wildman Wilderness Lodge - it's time to get out there. VICTORIA Head for the hills to live out your Man or Woman from Snowy River fantasy at the Grand Mercure Pinnacle Valley resort in the Victorian Alps,
- [Some like it hot: and then there's Oodnadatta](https://globalsalsa.com/some-like-it-hot-and-then-theres/) - On the Oodnadatta Track. This morning, as Sydney puffs its way through a heat wave, breakfast TV did a cross to Oodnadatta. The tiny town in northern South Australia is experiencing a run of above 45C degrees, topping out at 48C on Saturday - that's 118.4 Fahrenheit for all you imperialists out there. A few years ago,
- [Lame Van Halen leads Melbourne limping into 2013: opinion](https://globalsalsa.com/lame-van-halen-leads-melbourne-limping/) - Happy new year, everyone! I hope you saw Christmas in with a bang from London, New York, or the back blocks of Gippsland (for those whose work won't let them leave the confines). Melbourne's tallest buildings sang with a symphony of fireworks and about half a million people headed in to the city for the 10-minute
- [Best shopping finds of 2012: Vietnam quilts](https://globalsalsa.com/best-shopping-finds-of-2012-vietna/) - Yes, it's time to look back, so I'm looking at the best shopping finds in 2012, a list topped by the beautiful quilts of Mekong Quilts. I visited their shop in Hanoi's Old Quarter, a cool, quiet space hung with handmade quilts made in the poorest villages in Cambodia and Vietnam. The organisation is not-for-profit,
- [Unearthly delights and pleasure palaces await, from Udaipur to Adelaide: travel deals December 23, 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/unearthly-delights-and-pleasure-palaces/) - Lose yourself in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, go art deco in Kuala Lumpur or sail and rail around Australia's best wine regions in this week's best Australian and international travel deals. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Summer in Adelaide brings the world's best performers to town, with the deeply weird Garden of Unearthly Delights kicking off on
- [Three strikes: salted caramel hits out](https://globalsalsa.com/three-strikes-salted-caramel-hits-ou/) - I thought it was novel that I bought a salted caramel donut from Movida Bakery a few weeks ago. No jam. No chocolate. Salted caramel. Then, just a few hundred meters and a few heartbeats away, still in South Yarra, the sweet scents from Burch & Purchese lured me in and hit me with salted caramel
- [Spot roos, swan around Melbourne, trek Bhutan: travel deals](https://globalsalsa.com/spot-roos-swan-around-melbourne-trek/) - Powderhounds ... it's going to be a great year for heli-skiing. Photo: Getty Images Stay for free in chic Melbourne, send the kids out 'roo spotting in rural Queensland or trek Bhutan: what's not to love about holidays? Victoria In what has to be one of the sweetest deals in town, the Art Series hotel group
- [Star-spangled winner: Como Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/star-spangled-winner-como-melbourne/) - It's not only rock stars who get made over, as Belinda Jackson discovers in Melbourne's revamped Como hotel. Robbie Williams stays here whenever he's in town. Beckham drank in the hotel bar and of course La Minogue has hit the penthouses. In its 22 years, South Yarra's Como hotel has had 'em all, from Nana
- [Rug up and reap the benefits: wintery holiday bargains](https://globalsalsa.com/rug-up-and-reap-benefits-wintery/) - Turkey If you're keen for a wintery holiday, there are bargains to be had. New York City In post-Christmas Manhattan, crowds drop off, hotel prices come down, sales take off and ice skates come into their own. It's Restaurant Week, too, in January/February, during which key fine-dining places offer fixed-price menus. The 414 Hotel in
- [White Christmas at either end of the globe: travel deals 9 December 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/white-christmas-at-either-end-of-globe/) - Dreaming of a white Christmas? Try Austria...or Australia (if Tassie turns on the cold tap) in this week's best international and Australian travel deals. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Quintessential Adelaide experiences include coffee at Lucia’s in the Central Markets, where you can shop for a beach picnic in the cool shade of the jetties on the spectacular
- [Rendezvous in Melbourne a sleeper hit](https://globalsalsa.com/rendezvous-in-melbourne-sleeper-hi/) - Traveller's Bar, Rendezvous Grand Hotel Melbourne I have to admit: I must have walked past the Rendezvous Grand Hotel Melbourne a thousand times, and have never looked in. You could call the facade 'unassuming', but it's actually just downright misleading. The building celebrates its centenary next year, and the interior gives a clue to its
- [Hey, big spenders! Shopping holidays in Asia.](https://globalsalsa.com/hey-big-spenders-shopping-holidays-in/) - Plastic loaded and flats on feet? Experts tell Belinda Jackson where the bargains are in Asia. It's official: Hong Kong is the hottest shopping neighbourhood in the Asia-Pacific region. "The food, the shopping, the views, the energy, the noise, the waterways - HK's alive and buzzing 24/7," says design tracker Anne-Maree Sargeant, on our panel
- [Hide away in the Maldives, Kimberley or Falkands: travel deals 2 December 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/hide-away-in-maldives-kimberley-or/) - Hideaway tourism is so hot right now: Western Australia's Kimberley, an island resort in the Maldives (pictured left), not to be confused with those other remote islands, Islas Malvinas, aka the South Atlantic's Falkland Islands. There's deals to be had in all corners of the world. Read on... TASMANIA Queueing is sooo boring – stay
- [Escape the office](https://globalsalsa.com/escape-office/) - The Sukosol, Bangkok Be it shopping, flopping by the pool, an island sojourn or a city break, the neighbours can assist. Thailand Go for the food, people and direct flights to Bangkok and Phuket. The newest hotel in Bangkok, The Sukosol, is celebrating flinging open its doors with happy-hour cocktails, free dinner at its restaurant,
- [Wheels of fire and ice in Gippsland's great bike ride 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/wheels-of-fire-and-ice-in-gippslands/) - www.bicyclenetwork.com.au Gippsland was on high alert this weekend - and we're not talking gale-force winds or the opening of Wonthaggi Plaza (which saw traffic congestion at 8am today). No, it was the 29th RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride. The ride is an annual event that moves around the state, with cyclists spending eight days in
- [Places in the Heart: Pat Rafter](https://globalsalsa.com/places-in-heart-pat-rafter/) - Forget lounging by the pool: tennis champion Pat Rafter's holidays are action-packed adventures on Sunshine Coast beaches and in the hinterland. My family moved to the Sunshine Coast from Mount Isa when I was eight. I'm one of nine kids, and someone was always playing sport at weekends, so we just had little adventures, such
- [Animal antics in Africa and Adelaide: travel deals 25 November 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/animal-antics-in-africa-and-adelaide/) - Discover the Way of the Panda in Adelaide, go gorilla-tastic in Africa, or hitch a ride on a camel in Broome in this week's best international and domestic travel deals. TASMANIA Stepping into summer, it’s shaping up as peak walking time for Tasmania’s hills and mountains. Yes, you can camp, but it’s so much nicer
- [Home of the island gods](https://globalsalsa.com/home-of-island-gods/) - Candi Kuning temple at Lake Bratan, Tabanan. Photo: Getty Images Belinda Jackson swaps the noisy demands of the south for a slice of serenity amid temples and hillside rice terraces. The main road through the beautiful Balinese village is blocked by a parade of about 100 people, led by women in glittering costumes bearing offerings on
- [You can can can in Canberra: travel deals 18 November 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/you-can-can-can-in-canberra-trave/) - The Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition opens 14 December, Canberra You can can can in Canberra, oh yes you can. You can also go ethical in Melbourne's Fed Square or go camel, houseboat or rickshaw riding in India, in this week's international and Australian travel deals. VICTORIA Love it or hate it, Melbourne’s Federation Square is the city’s
- [The art of relaxation: Noosa](https://globalsalsa.com/the-art-of-relaxation-noosa/) - Flat out in Noosa, Qld When we'd talked about a girls' weekend away, the plans were laid for lovely spas, lazy brekkies and dips in Noosa's warm waters. I hadn't factored in toads or fisticuffs but, hey, I'm flexible. Girlfriend Mel and I pile way too much luggage for three days into a lipstick-red Kingswood V6 hire
- [Peace in Bali, bustle on the Bund: travel deals 11 November 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/peace-in-bali-bustle-on-bund-trave/) - Cinque Terre, Italy Peace is found in Bali's Tabanan district and in a Tuscan villa. Or find fabulousness on Shanghai's Bund and Hobart's Salamanca market in this week's Australian and international travel deals. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Named one of the state’s top pubs by the AHA, the 4.5-star Walkers Arms Hotel is spitting distance from the CBD,
- [Twenty reasons to visit Seminyak](https://globalsalsa.com/twenty-reasons-to-visit-seminyak/) - Surfers on shore at Legian beach. Photo: Getty Images 1 Kopi luwak "Civet coffee, where cherries are passed through the native cat", is a very nice way to describe the natural process of creating Bali's special kopi luwak (or civet coffee). By passing through the civet's digestive tract, the coffee beans are mellowed out, creating what's
- [Gangnam style and buffalo stations: travel deals 4 November 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/gangnam-style-and-buffalo-stations/) - Bamurru Plains, Northern Territory, Australia Let's talk Victoria's (shopping) secrets, Gangnam Style in Seoul and, for a complete wildcard, buffalo stations in the Territory, in this week's best Australian and international travel deals. VICTORIA Melbourne’s shopping scene goes into overdrive during the Spring Racing Carnival, throughout November. Stay in the thick of it all, in a studio
- [From the top of Australia to top drops of Australia: travel deals 28 October 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/from-top-of-australia-to-top-drops-of/) - Petra, Jordan. Visit the tippy-top of Australia, hang with Lawrence of Arabia's mates in Wadi Rum or raise a glass in Wineglass Bay or the Barossa. TASMANIA Wineglass Bay is often listed as one of the world’s top 10 remote beaches, paying homage to its perfect crescent of white sand. Visitors here are more likely
- [Baby got backpack](https://globalsalsa.com/baby-got-backpack/) - Me and Yasmine, en cyclo, Hanoi. PIC: Belinda Jackson Dummy cord, check. Vegemite, check. Belinda Jackson learns the art of travelling plus one. Last month, I travelled to Vietnam for work with a 17-month-old in tow. Newsflash: we survived. We're always talking about making work family-friendly - so, for the travel writer, it's a case
- [Bubbles and sunshine: Hayman Island, Qld](https://globalsalsa.com/bubbles-and-sunshine-hayman-island-qld/) - Sadly, this is not me. This is a leggy model, at Hayman's (and my)beach The Sun Goddess awaits: my transport to Hayman Island is a gleaming white launch awash with sparkling wine. The smooth journey from Great Barrier Reef Airport on Hamilton Island to Hayman takes an hour, which is long enough to nibble at
- [Lights out, Cairo! It's 10pm already!](https://globalsalsa.com/cairo-to-turn-lights-out-at-10p/) - Downtown Egypt PIC: Belle Jackson It's not a hoax, the Egyptian government plans to turn the lights off in Cairo at 10pm. Cairo's been voted the world's most 24-hour city, and I've heard it described not so much as 'the city that never sleeps' as 'the city that sleeps in shifts'. Most Egyptians here in
- [Seoul Purpose: a local's guide to the South Korean capital](https://globalsalsa.com/seoul-purpose-locals-guide-to-sou/) - Gyeongbokgung Palace The heart of Seoul lies in its palaces, skyscrapers - and its stomach. Seoul is a city is split by the River Han – old money to the north, new money south of the river. Northside, think palaces, president’s house and traditional hanok houses: snap up classic ceramics or perhaps a hanbok dress
- [Donkeys in Donegal, lounging on Lizard: travel deals 21 October 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/donkeys-in-donegal-lounging-on-lizard/) - Donkey and Mt Errigal, Donegal, Ireland. Chase donkeys in Donegal, lounge like a lizard on Lizard Island (where else?) or off track into the Balkans on an Ottoman trek. SOUTH AUSTRALIA With the Barossa to the north and Adelaide Hills to the east, the centre of Adelaide is but a hop-skip to some of Australia’s most
- [Where the wild things are: Ubud](https://globalsalsa.com/where-wild-things-are-ubud/) - Gateway to heaven: Villa Alamanda The forest is absolutely roaring tonight. Frogs croaking, crickets creeping, there's a bird that screams like it's on a rotisserie. Well, it could be a bird. Our driver, Gusti, describes it as a 'little animal'. It could be the small child in our party. This is Ubud: fertile, fecund and
- [Lemme hear you go Woo! Travel deals 14 October 201](https://globalsalsa.com/lemme-hear-you-go-woo-travel-deals-14/) - WooBar at the new W Hotel Singapore Snap up the bargain of the century with six cases of wine when you bed down in St Kilda, or throw your hands in the air like you don't care at the new WooBar Singapore's new W hotel in this week's travel deals. VICTORIA If you ever needed
- [Who the hell is Rhonda? Bali fashion](https://globalsalsa.com/who-hell-is-rhonda-bali-fashion/) - 'Who the hell is Rhonda?' I heard a fellow Aussie ask, here in Bali yesterday. It must be the humidity, as it took me a while to figure this one out, too: I just couldn't understand why the tat strips of Jl Legian and Double Six, in south Bali, were filled with singlets with such
- [Washing instructions: Littlehorn designs](https://globalsalsa.com/washing-instructions-littlehorn-designs/) - Washing instructions tag spotted on kid's t-shirt by Littlehorn, at the other-worldly Horn Emporium, on Jl Petitenget, Bali. Washing instructions: ask your mother, she will know what to do. Just in case you missed the shop, here's the exterior. Even the shop's loo is fab, thanks to Alex Zabotto-Bentley's impeccable styling.
- [Doing the Nile in style: travel deals 7 October 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/doing-nile-in-style-travel-deals-7/) - Do the Nile in style, let Versace bags you a pool lounger on the Gold Coast or shop it up in Melbourne and Malaysia. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Yes, there are bargains to be had on the crazy Perth hotel scene, creating a great excuse to go west and throw yourself into the city’s delicious food scene,
- [Lighthouses and London: travel deals 30 September](https://globalsalsa.com/lighthouses-and-london-travel-deals-30/) - Cape Schanck lightstation, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria From lighthouses to London, the chill of Beijing in winter to Tahitian summers, read on for this week's international and domestic travel deals. VICTORIA The Mornington Peninsula’s in the midst of a Spring Fling, with 30+ special offers in its vineyards, galleries, accommodation and restaurants until end October. Down
- [Stranded on Hayman Island](https://globalsalsa.com/stranded-on-hayman-island/) - My beach villa, Hayman Island, Queensland The view from my room is of a sandy beach, azure waters and palm trees: it's the quintessential Queensland holiday ideal. Forget about leaning over the balcony to get the view, just roll over in bed and there's all that maritime beauty, staring you in the face. The resort
- [Cape Town the best beach spot in Africa](https://globalsalsa.com/cape-town-best-beach-spot-in-africa/) - Clifton Beaches, Cape Town, www.capetown.travel Now here's an interesting snippet: apparently the best beach town in Africa is Cape Town. Thrashing last year's winner, Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh, Cape Town also trumped Bazaruto in Mozambique, Diani Beach in Kenya and Tanzania's Zanzibar Island at the 2012 World Travel Awards. South Africa also won best airline (SAA), top villa (Ellerman House
- [Feral at Dreamworld, flora in Canberra: travel deals 23 September 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/feral-at-dreamworld-flora-in-canberra/) - Go feral at Dreamworld, or floral in Canberra or find out if it really is all happening at the zoo, in San Diego. TASMANIA Can’t decide between drinking beer or hunting for Tasmanian tigers? Do both when you stay the Cradle Mountain Chateau, at the northern side of the dramatic national park that includes Tassie’s
- [Groovy is the new gold: vintage Ballarat a-go-go!](https://globalsalsa.com/groovy-is-new-gold-vintage-ballarat-go/) - Nostalgic ... makeover maven Miss Lulu. Photo: Belinda Jackson Forget the pioneering days of the rush - instead dig the nostalgia of Ballarat's new vintage scene, writes Belinda Jackson. "It all started with my glasses. I always wanted cat's-eye glasses," says Miss Lulu. Perched on a high bar stool, her redskin margarita is as pink as
- [Flowery prose on capturing flora](https://globalsalsa.com/flowery-prose-on-capturing-flora/) - 'Telopa speciosissima', Miss Maund & Benjamin Maund (1837-42) Engraving on paper, hand coloured. This beautiful image is the hero picture for the Art Gallery of Ballarat's upcoming exhibition, Capturing Flora, which opens this Tuesday. Ballarat is in the midst of a spring fling, with its botanic gardens about to bloom, spring racing at the start gates and
- [Judi's India, wild things and skydiving: travel deals 16 September 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/judis-india-wild-things-and-skydiving/) - Judi Dench does India Channel Judi Dench in India, throw yourself out of a plane in Torquay or take the kids to where the wild things are. NSW Sydney’s biggest hotel, the Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, is celebrating a $20 million refurbishment with its new rooms introductory package. The 682-room behemoth on Sussex St
- [London canteens and Indian tea houses](https://globalsalsa.com/london-canteens-and-indian-tea-houses/) - Today, I'm relying on photos to tell the story, rather than words. These are two beautiful spaces that crossed my desk this week: Pop Up Canteen is, as the cafe branding suggests, in London, a feature of design junction, the London design festival now in its second year, from 19-23 September 2012. Here's what they
- [Five-star kids: Cinderella and sugar overload at the Langham](https://globalsalsa.com/five-star-kids-cindarella-and-sugar/) - Proving that it's never too early or late to start Disnifying your life, my diary now includes a date for the Langham hotel's Cinderella Children's Tiffin. It is the ultimate date for Melbourne's five-star kids. The menu includes Tiara cookies, Kiss the Frog in Jelly, Love Heart cupcakes and, of course, there'll be Fairy Bread.
- [Shake it, spa it, catwalk it: Travel deals 9 September 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/shake-it-spa-it-catwalk-it-travel-deals/) - Four-Diamond Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort & Spa Nostalgic surfer chic meets Miami swim catwalk on the Gold Coast and learn to shake what your mama gave you at the home of samba, salsa and tango. VICTORIA Quest’s five new studio apartment properties in inner-urban Sydney and Melbourne include a kitchenette, workspace and free wi-fi. They’re
- [War on paper: North Vietnam's artistic legacy](https://globalsalsa.com/war-on-paper-north-vietnams-artistic/) - Independence Day posters on Hanoi's streets. A new art tour in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) traces the work of combat artists in Vietnam’s modern wars. [This is a transcript of a World Report for RTE Ireland, broadcast 2 September 2012. To listen, click here: http://www.rte.ie/news/player.html?worldreport#programme=World%20Report] We’re familiar with the pictures taken by foreign news photographers
- [Strange and wild ghouls and snow: travel deals 2 Sept](https://globalsalsa.com/strange-and-wild-ghouls-and-snow-trave/) - Morning at Machu Picchu, Peru (Intrepid Travel) It's all strange, wild and ghoulish in Tassie and Dracula's Romania, and the locals say it's puking in Victoria's Falls Creek (translation: it's snowing heavily, so get on down!) SOUTH AUSTRALIA Mantra on Frome, in the centre of Adelaide, is throwing open the doors on its new balconies, with
- [Vietnam on famil, en famille](https://globalsalsa.com/vietnam-on-famil-en-famille/) - Playing with restaurant staff at Temple Club, Saigon. Last week, I travelled in Saigon and Hanoi for work, with a 17-month-old in tow. News flash: we survived. It's not often I do a blog about the family, mainly because the term 'mummy blogger' makes me cringe, and also because I think most people would be
- [Travel deals 26 August 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-26-august-2012/) -  Masai Mara tribe, Kenya Meet the Masai, the 12 Apostles or the hamlets of the Nullabor Plains on an epic trans-Australian journey. QUEENSLAND Pay $111 a night - a discount of 33 per cent - when you book three nights at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort on the Sunshine Coast until December 20. Located close
- [Midnight marathons and trekking in Bhutan: travel deals 19 August](https://globalsalsa.com/midnight-marathons-and-trekking-in/) - Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa, Maldives Midnight marathons, trekking in Bhutan and the London Design Festival; great international and domestic travel deals. SOUTH AUSTRALIA The great thing about Adelaide is the wineries on its city fringe including the granddaddy of them all, Penfolds’ Magill Estate, where you can stop for a drop or dinner. Book two
- [Frogs in the belly get you the jump on Saigon](https://globalsalsa.com/frogs-in-belly-get-you-jump-on-saigon/) - Saigon's jumping chicken: high in calcium. I can't even really look at this photo any more: not after knowing that one of these beasts is now part of me. In a life spent putting weird things into mouth, Saigon's 'jumping chicken' was a fairly thoughtless decision. It's only now, afterwards, when I look at the
- [The toast of Saigon](https://globalsalsa.com/the-toast-of-saigon/) - That's not a fruit bowl. THIS is a fruit bowl. Ah, lovely Vietnam, where a complementary fruit arrangement in your room isn't a couple of geriatric bananas and an aged granny smith, but chock-full of hairy ramabutans and a whole mango. That baby lasted all of 20 minutes after I checked into the new Novotel Saigon Centre this
- [Champagne free-flow on sale! Travel deals: 12 August 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-12-august-2012/) -  Tadrai Island Resort, Fiji Get classy in Britain, test the champagne free-flow in Langkawi or slip into something comfortable in the Kimberley. TASMANIA Some of the world’s most pure air blows through Strahan, a fishing village on the west coast of Tassie. Base yourself here to cruise the Gordon River, catch the West Coast
- [Bathrobes and pearls: travel deals, 5 August 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/bathrobes-and-pearls-travel-deals-5/) - Crown Metropol, Melbourne Souveniring bathrobes, cruising with Agatha Christie or shopping South Sea pearls in Manila, read on for this week's domestic and international travel deals:   NSW It may be chilly but Sydney’s event’s scene is hotting up in August, with the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival (August 21-25) or, if lycra is more your
- [Indian summer coming up](https://globalsalsa.com/indian-summer-coming-up/) - I must be missing my beloved hiking tent, because I saw this teepee in Sydney's Koskela, when I was putting Kitchen by Mike through its paces (big thumbs up to the chorizo and chick pea stew and the pizza), and thought, "I must have one." The basic concept is so gorgeously simple, four sticks and a
- [Travel deals: 29 July 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-29-july-2012/) - TOURWATCH: Bend to pray at Kumbha Mela 2013 Surfers flex their pecs in Port Macquarie, while saints and holy men, seers and the devout bend to pray in India. TASMANIA Nature lovers can also be comfort lovers, especially when we’re talking winter in Tasmania. Admire the glory of the Freycinet peninsula, home to the perfect
- [The sacred cows of travel: user pays (and pays)](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-forecast-user-pays-and-pays/) - Sacred cows (Photo: Belle Jackson) *Warning: this post contains mild ranting and mentions children* It seems our fair country is in the midst of a tussle between ideologies of socialism and capitalism, once again. The government sells off more energy sources to foreign countries, and we pay for exactly what we use (oh, and how
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 22 July 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-22-july-2012/) - Hong Kong kids do masterclass Everyone loves a bargain, even if the transport to your resort is a luxury speedboat. It's the Maldives, of course. Or why not swim with whales in the Kingdom of Tonga? As you do... it's all here in this week's travel deals. NORTHERN TERRITORY With the MacDonnell Ranges as your
- [TRAVEL DEALS 15 JULY 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-15-july-2012/) - TV chef Luke Nguyen on the road. Got a secret crush on TV chef Luke Nguyen? Get up close and personal for a week in Yunnan; just read on... VICTORIA Halls Gap is the jumping off point for Victoria’s Grampians National Park, with its renowned hiking and rock art galleries. Staying in town, visit the
- [TRAVEL DEALS 8 July 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/deals-8-july-2012/) - Varanasi, Indina Meet the living goddess in Kathmandu or walk God's own country on the Great Ocean Walk in this week's best international and domestic travel deals: NSW Ski Thredbo and Perisher without the crush of commuters. Lake Crackenback Resort & Spa is on the border of Kosciuszko National Park, and 15 minutes from both
- [TRAVEL DEALS 1 July 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-1-july-2012/) - Nashville to New Orleans QUEENSLAND Noosa’s restaurant scene just keeps getting bigger, so it’s convenient that the Outrigger Little Hastings Street Resort & Spa is set up on a hill overlooking the town, letting you stretch your legs and work off those calorific meals. Stay three nights and get a free buffet breakfast each morning
- [Taking it easy: Bali or bust?](https://globalsalsa.com/taking-it-easy-bali-or-bus/) - Warm sun, icy cocktails, hot Petitenget restaurant, fabulous fashion stores that I've cruised, but not shopped. Head down, I'm writing Bali. The island of the Gods is so close, just 5.5 hours from Melbourne, and I soooooooooo want to go back. But then I think: there are so many other places to be going at
- [TRAVEL DEALS: embrace or escape winter around the world](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-embrace-or-escape-winter/) - Oia village, Santorini, Greece ESCAPE WINTER GREECE Received travel wisdom states that some of the world’s best sunsets are to be viewed in the village of Oia, on the island of Santorini. Save $963 when you book the cliff-top Fanari Villas for four nights between July 1 and September 30. Includes breakfasts and a bottle
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 24 June 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-24-june-2012/) - NSW Senator Bob Brown, ex-judge Michael Kirby and sailor Jessica Watson are all packing their bags and heading to Byron Bay for the annual writer’s festival, 3-5 August, when the town goes crazy. Get in early to grab a twin or double room at the Byron Bay YHA and save $25. They’ll also throw a
- [Where I (and you) should be right now](https://globalsalsa.com/where-i-and-you-should-be-right-now/) - SOS Supperclub, on top of the Anantara Seminyak, Bali. You know you want to be there right now. It looks like it's set up for a wedding in this shot, but if you could look behind you, you'd see all the day lounges set up to catch the sun setting over Seminyak beach.
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 17 June 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-17-june-2012/) - Cambodia: World Expeditions $ TRANS-AUSTRALIA Campervans are officially hot – you can strap your board on, pack the kids or set up a moving lounge room and head across Australia. An army of Dutch and German tourists can’t be wrong. Crank up the cost-effective Aussie road trip adventure and save 5 per cent off for
- [The best little baby muffins](https://globalsalsa.com/best-little-baby-muffins/) - What's cooking in the kitchen tonight: banana, sultana and coconut muffins. Best ever, thanks Bern! From "How it all vegan" anything-goes, fruit-filled muffins 2 cups flour (I split wholemeal and plain for extra grunt) ½ tsp salt 3 tsp baking powder ½ cup sweetener (honey, syrup, apple juice concentrate, rice malt, date syrup...) 2 eggs
- [Tea-leaf theif: Tease of the teas](https://globalsalsa.com/tea-leaf-theif-tease-of-teas/) - Banyan Tree Seoul Ok, so I put my hand up to souveniring interesting teas from any hotel I find myself holed up in. Let me tell you: there is nothing worse than checking in to a no-holds-barred hotel or villa, complete with hefty price tag, then finding miserable, cheap tea and nasty instant coffee in
- [Travel deals: Destination Canberra special! 10 June 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-destination-canberra/) - Hyatt Hotel Canberra $150 Happy Hour deals Click onto ‘Happy Hour’, between 12-1pm every Thursday in June, to book a great accommodation deal and get a $150 voucher to spend at the Canberra Centre, National Zoo & Aquarium, Canberra Glassworks or a combined 3inFun pass plus Skate in the City experience. The 3inFun pass includes
- [Crazed monkeys and limbless Frenchmen: This is The News](https://globalsalsa.com/crazed-monkeies-and-limbless-frenchmen/) - Spread out before me is the latest copy of the Bali Advertiser, a local rag published mostly in English, which I picked up at the front of Biku cafe last week. I'd stopped in to Biku for a coffee and tarot reading (both very good). I would have skipped the tarot and read the Local
- [Travel deals: 10 June 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-10-june-2012/) - Land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan AUSTRALIA $ VICTORIA With the AFL season in full swing, Melbourne streets are a sea of two-tone colour combinations. Wear your heart on your sleeve, or around your neck and join the throngs at Etihad Stadium. Every room in the nearby Hilton Melbourne South Wharf has a city view,
- [TRAVEL DEALS 3 June 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-3-june-2012/) - AUSTRALIA SOUTH AUSTRALIA Tee off on the championship 18-hole golf course, then dine on local crayfish: that’s sooo Victor Harbour. Top it off with a stay at the McCracken Country Club for just $99 a couple for one night to complete a great break. Stay two nights and get a bottle of wine and free
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 27 May](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-27-may/) - AUSTRALIA $ TAS It’s all about the oysters in this part of the world: take a seat on your suite’s balcony and you’ll be looking across the D’Entrecasteaux Channel to Bruny Island, where the oysters are so big, they have their own postcode. Not beloved of the bivalve? You’ll still enjoy a 34 percent discount
- [What I love about Bali: a short list](https://globalsalsa.com/what-i-love-about-bali-short-lis/) - Rice paddies, Tabanan regency. Out on the street, you rip your favourite shirt: disaster? No! there's a tailor within 100 yards, who'll whip it off you, let you wait in the change room and stitch it up, better than new, for $1, in five minutes. Run out of petrol in the middle of the street?
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 20 May 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-20-may-2012/) - Sea World, Qld SA Riesling lovers, go back to the heartland with a private day tour of the beautiful Clare Valley, north of Adelaide. After a civilised 9am pick-up, visit cellar doors including Pikes, Jim Barry and Annie’s Lane, with morning tea at the birthplace of poet CJ Dennis, of The Sentimental Bloke fame. Lunch
- [Trunk calls; night of the long noses in Bali](https://globalsalsa.com/trunk-calls-night-of-long-noses-in-bali/) - Room with a view. It's been a while since I've been woken up by an elephant. The last time was in the wilds of Kenya, when a massive bull elephant was busily ripping the forest outside my safari tent. The second time was last night, and the location is central Bali. This time, however, the
- [Death becomes her: happy Balinese villages](https://globalsalsa.com/death-becomes-her-happy-balinese/) - A happy gong player in a cremation ceremony, Tabanan. We were pottering through the loveliest little village in west Bali when suddenly the street was blocked by a procession of about 100 people. The procession was led by women in beautiful costumes bearing offerings, men playing gong (gamelan), a stick bearer and lots of folk
- [Words don't describe beautiful Bali](https://globalsalsa.com/words-dont-describe-beautiful-bali/) - Today, I was schlepping around the tourist-plagued Tanah Lot, a Hindu temple perched on a rock in the Tabenan regency, in west Bali. Avoiding the crowds that descend on the temple at sunset, it was still busy mid-afternoon, with a surprisingly large number of Indonesian tourists, out for a perve at their craziest island. A
- [Twenty reasons to visit Fiji](https://globalsalsa.com/twenty-reasons-to-visit-fiji/) - From white-water rafting to spa treatments, these are the top 20 reasons to visit Fiji. Castaway Island Resort in the Mamanuca Islands. From white-water rafting to spa treatments, these are the top 20 reasons to visit Fiji. 1 Diving The Great Astrolabe Reef is the world's fourth-largest barrier reef and curls around the sparsely populated
- [Curry up: get an appetite for Indian on Melbourne's streets](https://globalsalsa.com/curry-up-get-appetite-for-indian-on/) - Himanshi explains how to use Indian flavours on the Masala Trail. "And this ... is dosa." Himanshi Munshaw-Luhar holds up a wafer-thin pancake the size of a small pony. "Of course, this is the family size," she adds, rather unnecessarily. The dosa is more than a metre long. Himanshi is giving a crash course on
- [PLAY BRISBANE: Fun and sun rolled into one](https://globalsalsa.com/play-brisbane-fun-play-brisbane-fun-and/) - Streets Beach The sun is shining, bronzed people are bouncing about in bikinis and boardies…then everyone packs up and goes back to the office. Don’t you just love a beach in the middle of the city? Streets Beach, in South Bank, has got it all: sand, palms, lifesavers and warm, crystal-clear waters. Open all year
- [Travel Deals, Asia special report](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-asia-special-repor/) - Junk on Hong Kong harbour, traveltheworld.com.au $ LAOS Three World Heritage-listed buildings make up the teeny 3 Nagas hotel, which comprises just 15 rooms, in the ancient Laotian capital Luang Prabang. The hotel is a showcase of traditional architecture set amongst serene gardens, in the city’s Old Quarter. Stay three nights, pay two, with breakfast
- [SHOP BRISBANE: Indie vibe is right on trend](https://globalsalsa.com/shop-brisbane-indie-vibe-is-right-on/) - Brisbane’s burgeoning fashion scene has a home in inner-city Paddington, a veritable boutique-crawl up Given Terrace, with plenty of stand-out cafes in between for stamina. The vibe is indie rather than lables, with an emphasis on good cutting, great textiles and individuality. It all heats up one corner of Given Terrace, where a cluster of
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 13 May 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-13-may-2012/) - The Sunlander $ SOUTH AUSTRALIA The South Australian icon, Coopers Brewing, turns 150 this year, and that’s a good enough reason to visit Adelaide. Save on accommodation so you have more to spend on beer when you check in at the centrally located four-star self-catering Franklin Central Apartments. Normally $320 a night, the newly refurbished
- [Seoul ... it's out of this world, but also very familiar](https://globalsalsa.com/seoul-its-out-of-this-world-but-also/) - EXPATS call it Planet Korea: and after a week in Seoul I know I'm not in Kansas any more, Toto. Even my arrival at Incheon airport is memorable. After battling Seoul airport's personal-space-invading taxi drivers, the luxurious airport bus does not take off until a tuneful little ditty is played over the loudspeakers and our
- [Reviewing the review: opinions the spice of life](https://globalsalsa.com/reviewing-review-opinions-spice-of-life/) - Recently, a friend, another travel writer, rang me to ask about Orpheus Island, a tiny resort off the coast of Townsville. She asked if I really meant what I wrote in my newspaper review. Well yes, I said. It really was fantastic. I guess I can understand her scepticism. Journalists, are, apparently down there with
- [TRAVEL DEALS: 6 MAY](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-6-may/) - Oaks Mons Komo $ QLD Clear the Brissy hustle and head to the beach at Oaks Mon Komo, a brand new property overlooking Moreton Bay. Water babies note: it boasts a glass-edge ocean-view pool, the popular Suttons Beach is just across the road and there’s a restaurant, sports bar and gaming facilities on site. Opening
- [DON’T MISS: Brisbane May-Sept 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/dont-miss-brisbane-may-sept-2012/) - Absolutely top of your don’t-miss list this year is Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado, showing at the Qld Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Spanning four centuries, the big names include El Greco, Velázquez and Rubens. “Spain was the global power at the time,” says the gallery’s International Art curator, David Burnett.
- [Fare to remember: Brisbane on a plate](https://globalsalsa.com/fare-to-remember-brisbane-on-plate/) - Street art, Burnett Lane Big names, big tastes and serious coffee define Brisbane's dining and cafe scenes. With seafood leaping from ocean to plate, and forests of tropical fruits, you’re not going to starve in Brisbane, people. Beautiful and breezy, River Quay, on Southbank, is the city’s newest open-air restaurant strip. Fast becoming a
- [BRISBANE FOR… families, lovers, foodies & sports fans](https://globalsalsa.com/brisbane-for-families-lovers-foodies/) - Families: ‘Big, loud, fun’ is the tagline for the Workshops Rail Museum, where kids 2-12 years can drive a diesel or a tilt train, and the nippers’ railway adventure playground has goods trains, boom gates and a central station. Everything in this award-winning museum is designed to be touched, climbed on, pushed or pulled. North
- [Travel deals: 29 April 2012](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-29-april-2012/) - AUSTRALIA $ TAS Now’s the time to nip down to Tassie before winter sets in, so you can rug up with all your chic woollies while you shop Hobart’s Salamanca Markets and snack on Tassie’s famed scallop pies from the harbour’s food vans. Stay at the Hobart Mercure from $123 a night and get a
- [Morning glory on ANZAC Day](https://globalsalsa.com/morning-glory-on-anzac-day/) - "Where'd you get those badges?" I heard a little girl ask an old fella today. "They're war medals, love!" he said, pointing to the string of metal hanging from his chest. For my foreign friends, today was, of course, Anzac Day, where Australia remembers its war dead. Sort of like 6 October in Egypt, but
- [Nirvana for the wild at heart](https://globalsalsa.com/nirvana-for-wild-at-hear/) - Rafting the rapids. By boat or bike, paddling or pachyderm, the Island of the Gods is heaven for the adventurer. There's more to Bali than the nightclubs and Kuta's beaches: get on your elephant, cycle among green paddy fields or take to the water to explore its underwater life. Elephant tours Tap into Bali's Hindu
- [TRAVEL DEALS 22 April](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-deals-22-apri/) - AUSTRALIA Cradle Mountain, APT Tours. $ SOUTH AUSTRALIA Surf, swim or shipwreck hunt, Kangaroo Island’s beaches cater for all comers, including the white-sand Vivonne Bay, often considered Australia's best beach. With jetties begging you to drop a line over, and farmers markets on the first Sunday of the month, SA’s beloved island does winter beautifully.
- [Secrets from the grave revealed in Book of the Dead (aka The Mummy part II)](https://globalsalsa.com/secrets-from-grave-revealed-in-book-of/) - A ps to my post the other evening about The Mummy exhibition in Brisbane: I flicked open this morning's papers to find a front page story that famous Egyptologist John Taylor, who is in Brisbane for the exhibition's opening, has discovered a piece of burial scroll of one of Egypt's biggest names, amongst Queensland Museum's
- [Top of Tassie on go-slow](https://globalsalsa.com/top-of-tassie-on-go-slow/) - "Far OUT!" says the man in my life. "There's nothing here. Nothing! No McDonalds. No KFC. No Red Rooster." Driving across the top of Tasmania, from Launceston to Burnie late on a Friday afternoon, there is a notable lack of inhabitants, but it's more than compensated for by the signs of life: two cheese factories,
- [Priest keeps mum about temple secrets, now unwrapped by scientists](https://globalsalsa.com/priest-keeps-mum-about-temple-secrets/) - Looking inside the mummy to Nesperennub. Last week, I had a sneak peak at a 3000-year-old-man. Sounds a bit naughty, but he had all his clothes on, and more. Nesperennub was a temple priest in Thebes (now Luxor), whose mummified body now rests in the British Museum's Egyptology collection. The priest is now holidaying in
- [Putting the Gold Coast in your face](https://globalsalsa.com/putting-gold-coast-in-your-face/) - Risque ... chocolate three ways at Salt Grill Restaurant, the Hilton Hotel. New food stars have come out to shine on the Gold Coast, leaving kebabs and burgers in the shade. The new Hilton hotel features another Gold Coast newbie, Sydney chef Luke Mangan, who has made the trek north to open Salt Grill restaurant.
- [Oh my goodness, Ballarat!](https://globalsalsa.com/oh-my-goodness-ballara/) - Oh my goodness! Miss Lulu snapped in Ballarat.
- [BRISBANE: We’re going north on an urban safari](https://globalsalsa.com/brisbane-were-going-north-on-urban/) - Neither floods nor cyclones can dent the relentless reinvention of Brisbane, with celeb chefs and real espresso all over town. In a city where, traditionally, the word ‘hip’ is automatically aligned with ‘replacement’, it’s been a tough slog to otherwise convince to southerners and the hordes who’ve fled the northern capital every decade that Brisbane
- [Dishing up the delish](https://globalsalsa.com/dishing-up-delis/) - Union Dining, Richmond Ready, set, eat! Give your tastebuds a workout in Melbourne's newest restaurants. "DOES she like it?" asks celebrity chef and restaurateur George Calombaris as he hovers at our table with hands clasped, face concerned. The food critic puckers her lips and spits the spoon out, clean. Yes, George. The 10-month-old baby does
- [Schnitz gets the blitz as St Kilda hollers hola to Mexico](https://globalsalsa.com/schnitz-gets-blitz-as-st-kilda-hollers/) - "Ah, remember the days when those older Russian ladies would do tits'n'schnitz at the Newmarket hotel?" The barfly was seriously asking if I remembered. No mate, not me. "It was a bit o' fun. Just a bit o' fun. And now the Newmarket's gone all gentrified," he added with a sad sneer. "Some guy called
- [Flight of the eateries: Turks are tops!](https://globalsalsa.com/flight-of-eateries-turks-are-tops/) - Sorry this blog is all about food at the mo, but travel search engine skyscanner has just told us what we already knew, that Turkish Airlines has the best food in the skies. I've flown Turkish several times (last time, notably, to Tehran, which prompted a blog entry that had a Kevin Costner fan in
- [Land of the luscious long lunch](https://globalsalsa.com/land-of-luscious-long-lunc/) - We love a long lunch, yes we do! And we love it even more when it's long (three hours) and a long table (half-kilometer long table that seated 1200 guests. The Long Lunch marks the beginning of Melbourne's Food & Wine festival, from 2-21 March, and there were 30 lunches going on all across Victoria
- [Forget Melbourne, let's all move to Oman](https://globalsalsa.com/forget-melbourne-lets-all-move-to-oman/) - Oman skyline. Ah, lovely Muscat. The capital of Oman has always been gorgeous (and hot and dusty and did I mention hot), and now it's even more attractive, having been named the cheapest city in the world in which to live. Mind you, you'd have to be happy wearing white (if you're a man) or
- [Believe the hype: Chin Chin](https://globalsalsa.com/believe-hype-chin-chin/) - Spanner crab and chicken salad. I would have photographed the fab kingfish sashimi for you, but I ate it too quickly. Is Melbourne under the influence of a new Thai fascination? We're all talking about the Mexican Wave, with the impossible-to-get-a-seat Mamasita, Newmarket hotel, Fonda, the Taco Truck and Senoritas (opening end Feb). Exclude My
- [Rise and shine: the new islands of the north](https://globalsalsa.com/rise-and-shine-new-islands-of-nor/) - Chopper cam: an uninhabited island in the Palm Island group. After a flurry of sales and makeovers, Queensland's islands of the north beckon anew. After the devastation left by last year's cyclone season, several islands and resorts have refreshed and changed hands, including Orpheus, Lizard and Dunk islands, Fitzroy Island Resort and the celebrity haunt
- [Bubba's happy, mama's happy, let's eat!](https://globalsalsa.com/bubbas-happy-mamas-happy-lets-ea/) - "Does she like it?" celebrity chef and restauranteur George Calombaris is hovering at our table, hands clasped, face concerned. The food critic puckers her lips and spits the spoon out, clean. Yes, George. My 10-month-old baby does like your strained pumpkin. Forget about the journalist, the baby is happy. And George is happy. "I brought
- [Blue suede shoes in the age of innocence](https://globalsalsa.com/blue-suede-shoes-in-age-of-innocence/) - Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Julia gets rushed by the mob, and is swept up in the arms of her bodyguard on the most patriotic day of Australia's calendar. Lookit them. *sigh* It's all so Whitney and Kevin Costner, isn't it? It was quite a shock to see the footage of our Prime Minister bundled ungraciously into
- [Right wavelength: Heron Island](https://globalsalsa.com/right-wavelength-heron-island/) - Turtles viewed from the island's quasi-submarine "INFANTS are just hand luggage," a travel veteran told me before the arrival of a Jackson jnr. "Take them to all the posh restaurants before they can walk, and travel." "Families should stick to holidays in Queensland and stop inflicting their kids on the rest of us during long-distance
- [Dining high in Hong Kong](https://globalsalsa.com/dining-high-in-hong-kong/) - . The InterContinental Kowloon IT'S ONE of the world's eternal stand-offs: Hong Kong Island versus Kowloon. The two sides of the city face each other over the gorgeous Victoria Harbour, each with its own personality - HK Island sniffs and says it's sophisticated and fun, while Kowloon's just for the tourists. Yet Kowloon's makeover, with
- [Well I'll be burgered. Shopping Australia Day](https://globalsalsa.com/well-ill-be-burgered-shopping-australia/) - It's that time again when we celebrate sunburn, sand in your swimmers and all things beetroot. Yes I know most of you are still reeling from Christmas and New Year's, and the first hot cross buns have already appeared in the supermarkets in preparation for Easter, which doesn't appear till 8 April. But in between,
- [New Year's fever](https://globalsalsa.com/new-years-fever/) - I wish I could blame a fortnight-long hangover for my lack of New Year's wishes, but I can't. So I won't. Please accept my belated wishes for a fantastic 2012. I hope you all found yourselves somewhere fabulous on the most overrated night of the year. I remember semi-ruptured eardrums from an enthusiastic Chinese firecracker
- [Virgin's guide to Hong Kong](https://globalsalsa.com/virgins-guide-to-hong-kong/) - Voyeur (Virgin Blue) inflight magazine, Dec 2011 The dense streets, the screaming neon, the waves of humankind – Hong Kong’s pulse races at fever pitch. There’s nothing staid about this waterfront jewel of Asia; it balances its past as a British colony with its present as Asia’s hippest leader of the pack. Hong Kong embraces
- [Season's greetings!](https://globalsalsa.com/seasons-greetings/) - Belated Christmas greetings for those of you who celebrated on 25 December and hey, for once I'm early for those celebrating on 7 January! Wishing you all the best for 2012, from me and the one who makes my posts late, and my heart sing.
- [New spring for a Hepburn staple](https://globalsalsa.com/new-spring-for-hepburn-staple/) - THE rain jacket is Prada, the wellies are limited-edition Hunter. We must be in Daylesford. If I were enacting the vivid dreams of my beautiful life, I would leap in my convertible and motor to Hepburn Springs. But the reality is, it's raining and my car has a hard roof. However, the destination is still
- [Cheap and full of cheer](https://globalsalsa.com/cheap-and-full-of-cheer/) - Rejoice, oh disorganised work slaves! Bargains still abound for those who don't book their summer holidays a year ahead. Everything about Malaysia screams "bargain" and it's all done so nicely. Getting to Kuala Lumpur is cheap, thanks to respectable Malaysian budget airline AirAsia, and the shopping is fabulous, with Chrissy sales making it even better
- [At least 17 journalists assaulted during Egypt clashes](https://globalsalsa.com/at-least-17-journalists-assaulted/) - While we watch the renewed riots in Egypt with horror, I wanted to publish this statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists. We journalists are not particularly special, and I know that plenty of freelancers will head into the area to make their name in conflict journalism, but the general disregard for life, from the
- [Cairns pulls at the heartstrings](https://globalsalsa.com/cairns-pulls-at-heartstrings/) - Cairns lagoon. Skin cancer central, but does have some shade! On a busy corner of tropical Cairns, I could see OK Souvenirs, Koaland and Louis Vuitton. Then I got trampled by a Japanese tourist group. A woman outside my hotel window smoked rolled cigarettes and spat tobacco and invectives at passers-by, the hotel concierge went
- [Tropical island eats](https://globalsalsa.com/tropical-island-eats/) - It’s just on lunchtime and Cheong Liew is wandering the sea shore, hunting for oysters for my dinner. Oh yeah, baby, we’ve landed in paradise on earth. Orpheus Island is a hilly dot in the Palm Islands group, 80km off the coast of Townsville. Lashed by cyclonic winds last year, the resort recently reopened, and
- [On the road to Orpheus](https://globalsalsa.com/on-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 board is full of places you don't really slap on your holiday list: Cloncurry, Mount Isa, and lots of private mines. There's a huge ad
- [Grey is the new brown: Colours of 2011](https://globalsalsa.com/grey-is-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 to look back over the past year. I quite like these round-ups: books we loved, movies we watched, political and social highlights... just in case
- [](https://globalsalsa.com/salalah-oman-we-love-good-top-10-and/) - Salalah, Oman We love a 'top 10' and the Lonely Planet's top 10 cities is always good for a spot of cultural biffo. I'm going to be a snob and say up front that London is a rather ho-hum choice for the number one city to visit out of all the world, and Orlando in
- [Here's booking with you, kid](https://globalsalsa.com/heres-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 daypack for passports, five-month-old Yasmine on the arm. I plonk her on a nearby desk for a hands-free moment. "Madam!" barks an official-sounding woman. "You
- [](https://globalsalsa.com/luke-luke-luke/) - Luke, Luke, Luke. It's all about you. Even before you waltzed up to my table last night in the new Hilton on the Gold Coast, in your chef's whites advertising airlines and restaurants, it was all about you. I thoroughly enjoyed (and how often can you say this of cheap airline food) the tortilla with
- [Melbourne turns pink for Queen](https://globalsalsa.com/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 me. She was due at Fed Square at 12.15, and, being the queen and all, you'd expect her to be on time. Not so. Even
- [More icing on the cake: Daylesford](https://globalsalsa.com/more-icing-on-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." Oh, only because you ask so nicely, I won't wear my thongs into your two-hatted restaurant for the first showing of its spring table. They
- [Eat to ease East Africa's famine](https://globalsalsa.com/eat-to-ease-east-africas-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 the Horn of Africa are currently facing desperate food shortages following the worst drought in 60 years. Oxfam aims to reach 3.5 million people with
- [Notes from the back of a Daylesford wine bottle](https://globalsalsa.com/notes-from-back-of-daylesford-wine/) - 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 Teresa, prays, but to this point has not achieved levitation. The consumption of Clare Riesling over many decades has not caused her to levitate either.
- [Spring in the city: good reasons to visit Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/spring-in-city-10-good-reasons-to-visi/) - 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, and to dish up the most divine donuts that ever wobbled on the face of the earth. They're not even on the menu, they're that
- [Saturday night in Daylesford](https://globalsalsa.com/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 of 7000 people, yet it has art galleries, cafes, restaurants and beautiful villas wriggling out of every pore. Kazuki is a Japanese restaurant on up
- [Poor Ned, it’s hard to get a head](https://globalsalsa.com/poor-ned-its-hard-to-get-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 Melbourne Gaol. For the foreigners in the crowd, Our Ned had a penchant for holding up banks, but was forced to go on the run
- [A different direction: Lovin' Lorne](https://globalsalsa.com/different-direction-lovin-lorne/) - My drive from Melbourne to Lorne, on the Victorian coastline, is not quite Hunter S. Thompson's iconic road journey, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, where he packs his attorney, two bags of grass, mescaline, acid and a salt shaker half full of cocaine: I'm packin' my mum, some nice nectarines and a swimsuit in
- [Where good looks count: Clear Mountain Lodge, Brisbane](https://globalsalsa.com/where-good-looks-count-clear-mountain/) - Here's a little tale about a lodge on Brisbane's far northern fringe, near Samford. So I played down the arguments about the GPS, but it truly was a grim, bleak drive up to the lodge. Well worth it, really. IT IS a cold and windy night, the night we head to Clear Mountain Lodge, a
- [Palestine moves to north Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/palestine-moves-to-north-melbourne/) - Snapped in Brunswick/Coburg, the Arab-tastic northern suburbs of Melbourne. It was a car shot, so sorry for the quality, it reads: "On census day, let's all say we are Palestinian!" The census (where every person is counted in Australia) is being held tonight.
- [Cairo hormones high while NYC snoozes and loses](https://globalsalsa.com/cairo-hormones-high-while-nyc-snoozes/) - Cairo thrashes New York for late-night flirting. Who'd a thought? In case you missed it this week, online dating site Badoo found that the Egyptian capital tops the world as most nocturnal city with the latest night logons for chatting and flirting on its website. The Sex in the City capital, New York, was caught
- [Upper West Side comes to Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/upper-west-side-comes-to-melbourne/) - It's a sign of Australia's enduring cultural cringe that Melbourne now apparently has an Upper West Side. Thank you, New York City, for helping us find new names for our city streets. There's always been that joke about 'the Paris end of Collins St', then there's the Greek Quarter, Chinatown and the Spanish strip of
- [Rest and recuperate: Singapore](https://globalsalsa.com/rest-and-recuperate-singapore/) - Seven stopover cities where you can stretch your legs and beat the humdrum of a long-haul flight Click here to read more of this story from The Age. Why I love Changi airport: simply because I can get my luggage trolley into the loo - a bonus for solo travellers with no mate to
- [Butter and pounds: it's all a bit rich](https://globalsalsa.com/butter-and-pounds-its-all-bit-ric/) - How's that couple in the UK who won £161 million the other day? That's a whole lot of pounds. Yet they'll keep the car and the same house, but might go on a few holidays... Just as well they were retired, as I don't buy that line that people say they'll continue to work. Yeah,
- [Season to stay or stray](https://globalsalsa.com/season-to-stay-or-stray/) - Where do foodies, culture mavens and adventurers go to embrace or escape the cold? To read the full story, click here Embrace: Make like a Melburnian and don your big coat - black, naturally - for a cultural winter and no, the AFL doesn't count. The State of Design Festival from July 20-31includes Melbourne Open
- [Squared up with the Third World](https://globalsalsa.com/squared-up-with-third-world/) - Are you a closet knitter? Or are you loud and proud, knitting in the car, trackside at the motorbike races, at the beach? Today, people around the world raised their knitting needles in public for the World Wide Knit in Public Day (www.kipday.com) The movement started in 2005, and last year, there were 751 knit-ins
- [Essential guide to Dubai](https://globalsalsa.com/essential-guide-to-dubai/) - Tips for exploring the glitz, glamour and a dash of grunge of the UAE's star city. Click here to read more...
- [Happy Easter!](https://globalsalsa.com/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 mary Vin Diesel does street car races) the while the far more high-brow ABC is showing the 1956 movie, The 10 Commandments. The Cecil B
- [Essential guide to Kuala Lumpur](https://globalsalsa.com/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 for some truly fabulous shopping, and get down and dirty on the streets of Little Inida, Chinatown, the Malay quarters... Click here for where to
- [Hot to shop: Adelaide](https://globalsalsa.com/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 aware of the great deals to be had in the city of churches, sex shops and hydroponic gardeners (and we're not talking tomatoes here). And
- [Open-air drama in Melbourne's skies](https://globalsalsa.com/open-air-drama-in-melbournes-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, say, in a Dubai summer or a Helsinki winter. But in balmy Australia? Ok, so 'balmy' might be pushing it in autumnal Melbourne at the
- [More bang for your baht in Bangkok](https://globalsalsa.com/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 fantastic little camera shop on the ground floor, Nice Face spa that will set your toes a-twinkling for a few baht up on the fifth,
- [Kyneton: Cool Piper calls the tune](https://globalsalsa.com/kyneton-cool-piper-calls-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 town get? IT'S a windy, rainy night, yet one street in this wee country town is buzzing with a crowd sipping sparkling wine and snacking
- [Hot to shop: Noosa](https://globalsalsa.com/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, drinks and dinner on the pavement or by the window of the latest new restaurant; this scene's all about being seen, especially if you're fit,
- [Liquid diet only at Ponyfish Island](https://globalsalsa.com/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 Ponyfish Island. The signs were good: a sunny day, the Yarra River flowing brownly past, my café companion, GG, found the place under his own
- [Greetings from the world's second-most livable city](https://globalsalsa.com/greetings-from-worlds-second-mos/) - 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 been voted the second most livable city in the world, after the perpetual chart-topper, Canada's Vancouver which, incidentally, was today experiencing temperatures of just one
- [Tagging, bombing, paste-ups, can control... street art in Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/tagging-bombing-paste-ups-can-contro/) - 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, art. Well, that's the point of view if you're a street artist/graffiti artist/urban artist - whatever you want to call yourself. "Those kids tagging (leaving their
- [For a dip, drop and shop](https://globalsalsa.com/for-dip-drop-and-shop/) - The pool is the lure and the cure on a bright Dubai morning. When in doubt, go to Dubai. So what that it's 14 hours' flight from Australia. FACT: the best way to cure pending jet lag is to jump straight off the plane and into a pool. Click here to read more...
- [Hot to shop: Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-to-shop-cairo/) - In the printed media business, we work with interesting timings: to wit the publication of the Sun Herald's Hot to Shop: Cairo, just as the riots were taking hold, when shops were either closed against the demonstrations, or being forceably opened by looters. As was said to me recently, it could have been worse: London's
- [Hot pants, chilled bourbon and an absence of ladyboys](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-pants-chilled-bourbon-and-absence/) - Worth the drama of getting here... Bizarre sights on my recent Melbourne to Noosa (Qld) flight: The couple opposite who have brought stubbie coolers on board with them to keep cold the Jim Beam & Coke they’ve ordered from the hostesses. Obviously seasoned Queenslanders. The non-Japanese girl in denim hotpants, white knee-high socks and thongs.
- [Flying (or not) with Jet (No)star](https://globalsalsa.com/flying-or-not-with-jet-nostar/) - About this time, people, I should be telling you what the weather is like in Noosa, in sunny Queensland. Apparently, it's sunny and 29. But all I can give you an eyewitness account for is Melbourne, where after yesterday's 40-degree scorcher, the mercury is climbing steadily... When calling the airline to book to another flight,
- [So that's why the internet has been turned off in Cairo?](https://globalsalsa.com/so-thats-why-internet-has-been-turned/) - ...so that's why the internet has been turned off in Cairo? 'Remarkable scenes' at Cairo protests Anti-government protests have broken out in Egypt after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia. Thousands of protesters are marching through Cairo chanting anti-government slogans, after activists called for a "day of revolt" in a web message.
- [Fashion not the passion at the Aus Open](https://globalsalsa.com/fashion-not-passion-at-aus-open/) - Gilles Simon's flapping lime-green shorts. January has to be the best month to visit Melbourne. Quite often, the sun is shining, birds are singing. There's cricket at the MCG, photography exhibitions along the river's edge, and, more importantly, The Tennis is on. The Australian Open is the kick-off for a year of international tennis, and
- [Great Melbourne CBD cafes](https://globalsalsa.com/great-melbourne-cbd-cafes/) - Following on from the last post about great Melbourne cafes, I couldn't find an up-to-date definitive list of fab, new CBD cafes, so I made one, with a little help from my friends. Feel free to add your own... Bon a Manger, 387 Little Bourke St (modelled on London's Pret a Manger), Tuckshop, 500 Bourke
- [Coffee, rain and hair straighteners; Bourke St's got it all](https://globalsalsa.com/coffee-rain-and-hair-straighteners/) - I was catching up with a recently ex-Sydney coffee fiend in the CBD today, so thought I'd better take him somewhere that flashes Melbourne's serious coffee expertise. A truly great cafe in the CBD? Some would sneer that doesn't exist, and that I should head for Carlton, Fitzroy or South Melbourne. Online searches drew a
- [Revenge of the weather lords](https://globalsalsa.com/revenge-of-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. On the first week's struggle back at work for many people, I am delighted by the response from one PR (that's public relations person, to
- [Hot to Shop: Singapore](https://globalsalsa.com/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 linked by sub-subterranean passages, skybridges and subway tunnels so that you can actually visit the city and breathe only air-conditioned oxygen. But would you really
- [Shark el-Sheikh: a fishy tale](https://globalsalsa.com/shark-el-sheikh-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, wide beaches and high temps. But there has been a snake in paradise, or more specifically, a large shark, which has been terrorising tourists. The
- [Jacarandas and moody blues](https://globalsalsa.com/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 it's supposed to be quite swish," I assure him. The rest of the minibus has its ears open, so it's with a flourish the garrulous
- [](https://globalsalsa.com/best-wishes-for-2011-wherever-you-find/) - Best wishes for 2011, wherever you find yourself in this wonderful world!
- [Why phones are the new fire](https://globalsalsa.com/why-mobiles-are-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 - in that we all crowd around it to stare into its depths, mesmerised by the flickering light. Let me suggest that for this century, the
- [Feed me, Portuguese](https://globalsalsa.com/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 restaurant, if the name didn't give it away. Actually, we were there to talk about the former Portuguese colony, Macau, off the coast of mainland
- [Hot to shop: Dubai](https://globalsalsa.com/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 want the world's largest aquarium/tower/shopping mall with that?' You'd think Dubai might have tempered its outlook after being ravaged by the global financial crisis, but
- [Singapore's new groove](https://globalsalsa.com/singapores-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, it was tough, people, tough. The travel brochures would advertise traditional Singaporean cuisine "now off the streets and in a shiny, hygienic compound", which for
- [Hot to shop: Seoul](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-to-shop-seou/) - 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 old culture. I would never have found my way through Seoul's insane shopping scene without pro-shopper Joey, my Seoul sister Fee and a large dose
- [CPI: the cappucino index](https://globalsalsa.com/cpi-cappucino-index/) - According to the most CPI (that's Cappuccino Price Index to you), Brisbane has the most expensive coffee in the country. A cuppa will set you back on average $3.31 compared with $3.22 in Melbourne and $3.06 in Sydney. This tidbit cropped up while I was shooting an Obama blend ('yes we can!') espresso in the
- [Feeling the love (or not) in Dubai's rarified air](https://globalsalsa.com/feeling-love-or-not-in-dubais-rarified/) - “No kissing or overt displays of affection,” warns a sign on Dubai Mall’s glass doors. “Please wear respectful clothing. For example, shoulders and knees should be covered,” it adds. The world’s largest shopping mall is a rarefied environment, and can afford to be choosy. The day I visited, the ground level was a mass of
- [Tom's in town and speed's hit the fan](https://globalsalsa.com/toms-in-town-and-speeds-hit-fan/) - It's all go here in Dubai. Time Out Dubai was gossiping about him only last week, then suddenly, the front page of the Khaleej Times is splashed with Tom Cruise hanging off the side of a building, shooting Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Tom was back on the front page the next day, learning how to
- [Travelling 14 hours just for you, Bryan Adams](https://globalsalsa.com/travelling-14-hours-just-for-you-bryan/) - Straight off the plane and into the rooftop pool... It took four people to get me off the aircraft and to the hotel: the woman to meet me and take my passport and rush me through customs, the baggage man, the hotel rep to say hello and the driver, whose white Lincoln shussssssshed down the
- [Carpets, gold and pink champagne: Dubai, I'm coming...](https://globalsalsa.com/melbournes-emirates-airline-lounge-is/) - Melbourne's Emirates airline lounge is a sea of caramel leather, with bottles of pink Moet on the buffet, alongside bottles of pink Verve, if you're a champagne snob. The dates have had their stones removed so you won't crack your priceless dentures, and it's all just so... soothing. The lounge is a nice intro to
- [The recipe for world peace? Choux pastry and mangoes](https://globalsalsa.com/recipe-for-world-peace-choux-pastry-and/) - "Hip Brisbane?" said a friend who'd grown up in Brissy in the 60s. "Visit first, then try to convince me." If she'd spend just a couple of hours with me this morning, she may have started to relent. The hotel, Spicer's Balfour, is a nine-room Queenslander (painted weatherboard with wide verandas, a rooftop bar and
- [Hot to shop: Kuala Lumpur](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-to-shop-kuala-lumpur/) - Photo: the bewilderingly fabulous mall, Suria KLCC. Photo: AFP & Sun Herald Malaysians have two great loves: eating and shopping. Sometimes you could flip that around to shopping and eating. Either way, the capital, KL, is truly fabulous for a shopover, especially if you're a mall fiend. Smell the fakes, snap up the bargains then
- [Madly Hatted, Richard does Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/madly-hatted-richard-does-melbourne/) - Where did you get that hat? Why, it's a Richard Nylon, of course. Undeniably, marvelously kooky, the milliner Mr Nylon is hot property right now. Of course, it's Cup season. That's the Melbourne Cup to those not in the know. When I was a schoolkid in Queensland, our teachers would nick off to the staffroom
- [Bromance in the park](https://globalsalsa.com/bromance-in-park/) - Photo: Eddie Jim, Sun Herald So I've taken time out from making rhubarb and apple crumble with neon-red rhubarb from someone else's garden to do some work. Yes, really. Finally, a review of the fabulous Middle Park Hotel has appeared in the Sun Herald - if you're looking for Melbourne digs without effete pretention. Bon
- [The great outdoors](https://globalsalsa.com/great-outdoors/) - An escarpment in the Kimberley. Photo: Belle Jackson Is it, like, circuitous meeja navel-gazing when media commentators start blogging on other media, only for other bloggers then to blog them? Praps, but if you're not in the loop re: all things glossy magazinesque, we're talking about the fact the buffest little gardener, our own Jamie
- [Game On! A guide to Delhi](https://globalsalsa.com/game-on-guide-to-delhi/) - Just in case you are going to Delhi this week for the Commonwealth Games and oh, don't have accommodation, or even a singular clue about the city, here's a quick guide for the completely clueless. If you've been too busy to think about it because you've been practising your lawn bowls technique, we salute you,
- [Lattes all round at Naked for Satan](https://globalsalsa.com/lattes-all-round-at-naked-for-satan/) - Can you choose a cafe just because you like the name? If so, a newcomer to Fitzroy's Brunswick St should pack 'em in, with the catchy name, 'Naked for Satan'. Let's try it. 'Hey groover, let's get to Naked for Satan for skinny lattes!' Yeah, it works. The coffee's not bad, either. And the $2
- [Cleopatra's dress bound to be a hit](https://globalsalsa.com/cleopatras-dress-bound-to-be-hi/) - The Egyptians in the crowd will love this: it's a dress by Scottish designer Holly Fulton, which Cool Hunter has picked up in its current edition. It's all very Cleopatra isn't it? Speaking of Egyptians, a friend from Cairo popped into St Kilda last week and saw one of the buildings on the foreshore swathed in a massive red, white
- [The magpie and the tiger](https://globalsalsa.com/magpie-and-tiger/) - Working through a Seoul shopping story today, I came across some notes about a reproduction of a famous Korea story about a magpie and a tiger, from the Joseon period. In mythology, the maggie is a bringer of news from the gods, and the tiger is said to bring blessings and exorcise disaster. I love
- [Greenland on hold](https://globalsalsa.com/greenland-on-hold/) - I should be winging my way to Toronto instead of sitting here blogging in rainy Melbourne, dammit. The plan was to cruise the Artic circle on the Clipper Adventurer, but I'm not going anymore because my ship hit a rock. Happily, no-one was hurt, but the ship won't be repaired in time for our polar cruise
- [Hot on the phone in Seoul](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-on-phone-in-seou/) - I was having a fight with Optus yesterday about my overdue phone bill. I had queries about it and they said 'why didn't you ring earlier?' Because I was in Seoul, I said. South Korea, like Japan, doesn't sing from the same hymn sheet as the rest of us. Their phones are predominantly non-GSM, running
- [](https://globalsalsa.com/my-enduring-image-of-seoul-is-not-its/) - My enduring image of Seoul is not its elegant Joseon palaces, neon signs or pretty traditional houses, but legs. Legs, legs, legs. Seoul, like much of Asia, is currently in the grip of a fashion obsession where short shorts are teamed with the highest heels - wedges or stilettos, whatever you can totter on. Little Korean
- [Things I just don’t get about Malaysia](https://globalsalsa.com/things-i-just-dont-get-about-malaysia/) - No kissing in taxis (see explanatory picture). The B.U.M. Equipment clothing range. For men, women and children. Er, market research, anyone? The Petronas towers. Yeah, they’re big man. Ok, they’re real big. And that’s really about it. No cure for cancer or the common cold. They’re. Just. Big. Call me a killjoy, I don’t care.
- [China in transit](https://globalsalsa.com/china-in-transi/) - Killing time at Beijing airport with delays, I offer you a sample of today’s headlines in the English-language China Daily: Street food blamed for cholera outbreak. Hand-washing practices urged for professionals. A birthday cake for six-year old pandas Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan And a story entitled “Smaller penalties for breaking family planning rules”, which states
- [Things I like about Changi airport](https://globalsalsa.com/things-i-like-about-changi-airpor/) - Why I love Changi airport. Simply because the loo fits my luggage trolley in it. Singaporeans love their shopping and are happy to accommodate the trait in its visitors. There are lollies on the desk of the customs clerk. I ask him if he eats them all day. “No,” he says. “Then I would be
- [Early morning over Kuala Lumpur](https://globalsalsa.com/early-morning-over-kuala-lumpur/) - Flying over Kuala Lumpur before sunrise, the city of 1.8 million looks dark and empty. I’m having a flashback, oddly, to another time, arriving before dawn in a small Russian city, dumped off an overnight bus on an overpass on its outskirts. Surprisingly, the Russian soldier who gets off the bus at the same lonely
- [A country drive: Kyneton exposed](https://globalsalsa.com/country-drive-kyneton-exposed/) - It's a town where the espresso consumption equates the population of 4300 people: surely 4300 espressos, macciatos, afogatos, cappucinos and lattes were dished up this weekend in Australia's most happing country town, Kyneton. How groovy can one town be? The answer is: impossibly so. Cafes and galleries open at a rate of knots, yet there's
- [Friday night dinner](https://globalsalsa.com/friday-night-dinner/)
- [A new national pasttime: abusing Asian tourists?](https://globalsalsa.com/new-national-pasttime-abusing-asian/) - What I did on my winter vacation: abused Asian tourists. Do you think this is a trend that'll take off? So now I'm starting to sound like Tony Abbott (er, before the election campaign started), but let me explain... Last week, a few of us toddled down to Phillip Island, just south of Melbourne, a
- [Hot to shop: Delhi](https://globalsalsa.com/hot-to-shop-delhi/) - Spices, silks, scarves and saris? Let the games begin. Delhi is full of emporiums selling jewellery and scarves. Even I got bitten by Delhi's voracious auto-rickshaw drivers, who receive a commission from shops that they're keen to run you in to. Lucky they were dealing with someone who'd hardened their heart against the charms of
- [Forgotten island the ultimate beach escape](https://globalsalsa.com/forgotten-island-ultimate-beach-escape/) - I don't reckon the Bali tourism people are going to be overly happy with this piece raving about the Philippines, but seriously, I was almost EATEN by fake watch sellers when I stopped in Bali last time. Its white sand beaches, warm blue waters and easy-on-the-wallet style make Boracay a contender for the ultimate beach
- [A different side of Egypt: from Alexandria to Marsa Matruh](https://globalsalsa.com/different-side-of-egypt-from-alexandria/) - So I stuffed photographer and a crate of beer in a red 1975 Landcruiser and we aimed for Libya. Here's the result... :Away from the famous sites and Red Sea resorts, stretches of Egypt's coast are opening up to tourism. The sky is bright blue, the sand bright white, the sea perfect, and there's not
- [Animal kingdom in city streets](https://globalsalsa.com/animal-kingdom-in-city-streets/) - “Do we have any respect for animals?” was the theme of one conversation at a lunch on Friday at the fabulous Circa restaurant here in Melbourne. The question came up as Circa makes a big issue out of sourcing organic produce, finding happily bred, free-ranging animals to eat, and right at our backs was a
- [Red light alert: Jakarta on sale](https://globalsalsa.com/red-light-alert-jakarta-on-sale/) - All the world loves a bargain and Jakarta is currently on sale. Armed with a handful of adept and hardened shoppers, I tottered behind them, from store to store, their cries ringing in my ears, “Zara! Kate Spade! Massimo!” They were right, it was bargain central, as the world over enjoys mid-year sales. In return,
- [Team Orange gets a guernsey](https://globalsalsa.com/team-orange-gets-guernsey/) - As you can tell, it's all football in this household at the moment, although some of us are welcoming the break before the serious games start. Take a look at this shirt from the Dutch Football Federation, spotted by TheCoolHunter.
- [Shower power and the Jakarta jam](https://globalsalsa.com/shower-power-and-jakarta-ja/) - It's said Jakarta's traffic is some of the worst in the world - which is a big call when you're considering Manila, Bangkok and lovely Cairo. If this sweeping statement wasn't true, I'd be able to tell you more about Jakarta - the shops, the cafes, etc etc. But much of the afternoon of planned
- [Flushed with success in Jakarta](https://globalsalsa.com/flushed-with-success-in-jakarta/) - So a group of us go into this amazing five-star hotel in Jakarta and we've all got massive suites that are twice the size of my Melbourne apartment. The food is fabulous, the company gorgeous, but the conversation? Well, it comes about as we all check in, then dash upstairs to refresh before dinner and
- [World Cup fever diluted to a sniffle in Oz...](https://globalsalsa.com/world-cup-fever-diluted-to-sniffle-in/) - 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 own Aussie Rules, both played with the pointy-end ball. But there are those who are putting in the hard yards during the World Cup, no
- [Making sense of Marrakech](https://globalsalsa.com/making-sense-of-marrakec/) - 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, tiny riads (hotels) and - importantly if you happen to be in Melbourne at the moment - balmy temps. Which can only mean no need
- [The spice of life...from Canada (yes, Canada)](https://globalsalsa.com/spice-of-lifefrom-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 no house to put any of it into. Yes, that'll be the box with the divine Egyptian light fittings. And the roll of Moroccan carpets.
- [Hot to shop: Hong Kong](https://globalsalsa.com/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 to have a go... You can see the story here. Speaking of shopping, I came across an article recently which found that in a round-up
- [Egypt smokes 19 billion cigarettes: maybe it's time to quit?](https://globalsalsa.com/egypt-smokes-19-billion-cigarettes/) - 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 story that Adam sent me. In it, the story claims Egyptians smoke 19 billion cigarettes each year. And that doesn't include shisha smoking. It also
- [Hot to shop: Manila](https://globalsalsa.com/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 markets selling everything from seashells to Chanel. It's hot, it's steamy ... just the weather to spend in an airconditioned super-mall that is this shop-mad
- [Travel guide to Dublin](https://globalsalsa.com/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 get the lowdown. Slainte!
- [Things that get me excited in the Philippines.](https://globalsalsa.com/things-that-get-me-excited-in/) - 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 it IS. Yes, it's a car park. But what a car park. Manila is renowned for its filthy traffic jams, and there's almost no room
- [Barra dreaming](https://globalsalsa.com/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," says an old Kimberley hand on hearing I'm flying up to the remote northern corner of Western Australia. "I hear they've upgraded the terminal." Funny
- [Mummy's the word in beauty](https://globalsalsa.com/mummys-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. Take, for example, this Egyptian treatment that promises to turn me into a velvet-skinned vixen: strip naked, feed the skin a sticky marinade and get
- [Delhi days - the final countdown](https://globalsalsa.com/delhi-days-final-countdown/) - It’s hot and the pollution is thick as Vegemite back in Delhi and it’s only 6am. Love a good start to the day. Delhi’s main train station is doubling as a dorm this morning, with bodies stretched out on every surface. They roll impatiently as I wake them with a vigorous exercise in daylight robbery
- [Stuck at the Jammu railway station](https://globalsalsa.com/stuck-at-jammu-railway-station/) - From first glance, there’s not a whole lot going for Jammu, one of the main towns of the northern Indian region of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). The areas around railway stations are notoriously grotty. So this being India, we’re talking multiples of grottiness. But perhaps I'm being too harsh: with a quick walk around the
- [Pony trekking in Kashmir](https://globalsalsa.com/pony-trekking-in-kashmir/) - Unfortunately, there is rather more trekking and far less pony action that I’d hoped on this pony trek in the Kashmir valley. Not too early this morning, after a small temper tantrum about sitting on an animal whose legs are only marginally longer than mine, I team up with Balah (‘White’ in Kashmiri) and Moonti
- [A quick drive in the Kashmir Valley](https://globalsalsa.com/quick-drive-in-kashmir-valley/) - So we’re in the jeep gunning it to the hiking trailhead of Naranagh, in central Kashmir. We are: my guide, Salim, the driver Daba and a small white chicken from Delhi. Daba, who’s young and cheerful, has an eye for the ladies, and the flash of a sequined dupatta (scarf) has his attention wandering from
- [Kashmir pyjamas, punts and politics](https://globalsalsa.com/kashmir-pyjamas-punts-and-politics/) - The safety announcements were in one language only, and it wasn’t mine. And there are no other blondies on the plane. Praps they’re all going on the direct flights to Srinigar, instead of stopping momentarily in Jammu. We’re on the way to Kashmir. The northernmost state of India has been on and off the tourist
- [Delhi traffic and books I should have read](https://globalsalsa.com/delhi-traffic-and-books-i-shoud-have/) - I was stuck in traffic. Nothing new in Delhi. The city is plagued by traffic jams of epic proportions. Perhaps not as bad as Cairo, where midnight traffic jams are a constant occurrence, nevertheless, it’s a sprawling city and crossing it can take hours. Waiting at traffic lights is a shopper’s paradise – if you
- [Cow pats and incense](https://globalsalsa.com/cow-pats-and-incense/) - “Why is it that every foreigner goes to Varanasi?” a well-travelled Delhi local asked me. At the time, I was in the car going to the airport. “Beats me, I’ll let you know when I get there.” I have decided it’s not the cow pats, slammed on narrow alley walls to dry then stacked in
- [Cows and holy men: Varanasi](https://globalsalsa.com/cows-and-holy-men-varanasi/) - "You haven't been to India until you've been to Varanasi," a well-heeled woman told me last week. "After that, everything is India Lite." Varanasi is India’s most holy city. Lord Shiva looked out from the highest peak in the Himalayas and chose this spot to be his. It’s the city of Shiva, the city of
- [Life in the slow lane...in Delhi](https://globalsalsa.com/life-in-slow-lanein-delhi/) - “Breathe in, stretch up. Breathe out, palms on the ground.” Rajneesh is taking me through morning yoga by the mirror-like 50-meter pool that stretches out along the ground level of the incomparably beautiful Aman New Delhi. Billed as a ‘city retreat’, it is serene and peaceful – when the nearby workmen hacking up the roads
- [Divine intervention: don't kill your television](https://globalsalsa.com/divine-intervention-dont-kill-your/) - What’s on Indian TV tonight? Veging out to Cory Feldman killing vampires, I flick the channel to find lots of ads for Fair & Lovely face-bleaching creams, news of the death of an Australian cricketer in Adelaide at 94, the Bollywood hunk Salman Khan shooting people in his new movie and advertising washing powder, and
- [Singh is King](https://globalsalsa.com/singh-is-king/) - And so the formula goes: every Sikh is a Singh, but not every Singh is a Sikh. Dharamasala is behind us as we gun it down to the plains of the Punjabi and the city of Amritsar. Just a few hours after coming down from the mountains, the air is hot and dry. Tibetan caps
- [Of yak butter, tantric meditation and why I'm not a supermodel...](https://globalsalsa.com/of-yak-butter-tantric-meditation-and/) - Walking through the streets of Dharamsala is like walking through a Benetton ad: you can see the broad Central Asian faces of Tibetan exiles, narrow, dark faces from southern India, pink skin and pale hair of sunburnt western European tourists and the placid Nepalese influence all jumbled into India's mix. The menus are equally pan-global:
- [A cautionary tale of lentils and the Jammu Mail train](https://globalsalsa.com/cautionary-tale-of-lentils-and-jammu/) - I'm having a flashback to Russia – the a second-class train sleeper (with air-con!) is an open affair of double-decker bunks that double as seats in the daytime. Before we borded the night train, the station platform was full of hungry travellers queuing for Aloo McTikka burgers from McDonalds, so it was round to the
- [All that glitters...gold and the gate](https://globalsalsa.com/all-that-glittersgold-and-gate/) - I don’t know what I was expecting, but I didn’t expect there to be so...many...saris. Here, women glitter – literally, with richly decorated saris. In the afternoon sun, the gold spangles on their clothing flash and shine, as does the gold in their ears, on their noses and occasionally, studded on their foreheads. Early this
- [Bollywood movies and butter chicken](https://globalsalsa.com/bollywood-movies-and-butter-chicken/) - The fabulous Hong Kong has come and gone in a flash. Now, on an Air India flight, I'm having a few qualms. Not least because the toilet doors don’t lock and three hours into the five-hour flight, there has appeared to be no food apart from unsalted peanuts. The movie, broadcast on a pull-down communal
- [The price is (not) right in Hong Kong](https://globalsalsa.com/price-is-not-right-in-hong-kong/) - The hottest story in Hong Kong right now – after the discussion about the unseasonal smog on the city this month – is about its property prices. Yesterday, the real estate market broke all records with the most expensive sale ever, a three-storey house on the Peak (the hill with cable car that overlooks the
- [Feeling low but seeing Hong Kong on high](https://globalsalsa.com/feeling-low-but-seeing-hong-kong-on/) - Ohhhhhhh the comedown. I am in a hotel in Hong Kong, and all in front of me I can see the harbour and my lovely ship - which is sailing tonight without me! Booo! The Grand Hyatt is on Hong Kong Island, looking over to Kowloon and the Ocean Terminal where my other address when
- [Snoozing and cruising on the Seabourn Oddity](https://globalsalsa.com/snoozing-and-cruising-on-seabourn/) - Today is the last day before we reach Hong Kong, where something like two-thirds of the ship gets off. There are about 130 world cruisers – those travelling from go to woah – from the USA to the final destination, Greece – and the poor things now have to make new friends with the next
- [Brunei and the logistics of eating](https://globalsalsa.com/brunei-and-logistics-of-eating/) - Well, here they are: the gold domes of Brunei’s Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin mosque with its gold domes, in the country’s capital, Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB for short). With its obscenely wealthy sultan and a population that doesn’t pay tax, Brunei’s residents have free education and health care, living in their steamy hot little country
- [Cruising in the South China sea](https://globalsalsa.com/cruising-in-south-china-sea/) - The longer you stay on a cruise ship, the harder it is to get off. Champagne and corned beef hash at breakfast? Why not? Not me, but I’ve also seen at least three tables sporting bottles or tubes of Vegemite, the black breakfast spread most of us are addicted to. You’d think that being on
- [Equators, evil spirits and the power of silence](https://globalsalsa.com/equators-evil-spirits-and-power-of/) - We’ve just crossed the Equator, and people, can I tell you, there was no red line. I think that might be an oil rig on the horizon, but other than that, no fanfare. There is some sort of traditional hi-jinks on this afternoon to celebrate, but for now, it was a quiet event at about
- [Maidens at sea: Seabourn Odyssey](https://globalsalsa.com/maidens-at-sea-seabourn-odyssey/) - The Indonesian island of Bali has just slid into view, complete with halo of puffy clouds. As you might have guessed, we’re not in Australia anymore, Toto. Sorry for the silence on the blog: life in Australia is never dull, even more so when you leave. At the moment, I’m cruising with the sparkling new
- [Psst, King Tut going cheap](https://globalsalsa.com/psst-king-tut-going-cheap/) - Learn to keep mum when shopping in the mother country of civilisation. 'Let me give you some advice for shopping in Egypt," said the elderly Cleopatra on my second day in Egypt. She leaned in close, peered over the rim of her spectacles and raised a dagger-like finger. "If you're not interested, say no. If
- [Because you asked...](https://globalsalsa.com/because-you-asked/) - Well it’s been three weeks since I hit home after almost a year in Egypt. There’s a definite pattern in the questions I’ve been asked since I've been back, so let me run you through the answers (I probably should have done this weeks ago, which would have saved me sounding like a parrot). Did
- [Wake up, Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/wake-up-melbourne/) - What a morning to wake up to! British designer Alexander McQueen dead. Flash floods in Melbourne. AC-DC rocking out in the stadium and then I open my email to find...the beautiful camel competitions is back on in the UAE. How do you judge a camel beauty contest? BBC I also loved this demure line in
- [All Greek, all wonderful: Hellenic Republic](https://globalsalsa.com/all-greek-all-wonderful-hellenic/) - Melbourne really deserves its reputation as Australia's food capital. The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival is on next weekend, an absolute extravaganza of things to put in your mouth, and yesterday, I cruised the gorgeous offerings of the Hellenic Republic. You know I've been out of the scene for a year now, so I had
- [Old school, new kind of cool](https://globalsalsa.com/old-school-new-kind-of-coo/) - Are you cheating on a blog if you re-publish your own print work? Maybe...maybe not. In any case, some of you reading might be (a) men and (b) heading to London with an empty suitcase, fat wallet and the need for a tux or upholstered champagne chest. Men, look no further... As the song goes,
- [Horsing around a fishy tale](https://globalsalsa.com/horsing-around-fishy-tale/) - I've traded horses around the Pyramids for horses at the beach - this is a pic taken last winter here on the Mornington Peninsula, about an hour south of Melbourne. The horses are some of Australia's most famous racehorses, who are trained on the beach and in the water in the very early mornings, and
- [Igniting the Population Bomb](https://globalsalsa.com/igniting-population-bomb/) - Who ever thought statistics could be interesting? One of the most delicious comparisons between Egypt and Australia is our populations. Cairo is home to 20 million people (give or take a few million), roughly the same size as the entire population of Australia. According to my mate Wiki, we are only less crowded than a
- [Anyone for desert?](https://globalsalsa.com/anyone-for-deser/) - Deep in North Africa’s vast Western Desert lies remote Siwa Oasis, its fortress, fossils and freshwater springs irresistible magnets. View MapMore Images The view from the window is of waves of creamy sand folding over each other as far as the eye can see, broken only by a flurry of green date palms and shell-pink
- [Things I don't miss about Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/things-i-dont-miss-about-egyp/) - In response to the last post, here's my list of things I don't miss about Egypt, now I'm back in Australia. 1. Pollution. The smell of the eucalyptus and pine trees in the night air of the Mornington peninsula is olafactorial poetry. 2. Egyptian beds. Think unrolled futons, Egyptian beds are vast, but hard as
- [Things I miss about Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/things-i-miss-about-egyp/) - Hi all, in case you didn't realise, I'm back in Australia, just in time for Australia Day (a celebration of barbecues, lamb chops and lite beer). Here's what I miss about Egypt. I will balance it with a second entry, so don't worry about bias: 1. My souk (market). Perfect red tomatoes for 20c/kilo while
- [Spire of spite: Cairo Tower](https://globalsalsa.com/spire-of-spite-cairo-tower/) - Today, we went to the Cairo Tower for breakfast. We took the lift to the 25th floor, to the top of the 187-foot tower. The city coughed and spat way down below: the Great Pyramid of Cheops is 50m lower. Cairo would be the last to call itself an early riser, and Saturday mornings are
- [Muslim-Christian violence rents Upper Egyptian town](https://globalsalsa.com/muslim-christian-violence-rents-upper/) - The southern Egyptian town of Naga Hammadi will never be the same again. The past week has seen the town, 60km north of Luxor, turn into a battleground of sectarian violence that has shocked the nation when seven young Christian deacons were murdered in a drive-by shooting on the Coptic Christmas eve. Also killed was
- [Positions vacant: wanted, one military dictator](https://globalsalsa.com/discussion-over-who-will-suceed/) - The discussion over who will suceed President Hosny Mubarak, now 81, is reaching fever pitch, even in such far-flung corners as Australia. Take a look at this article appearing in today's Sydney Morning Herald. For sure, the accompanying photo, a picture of Hosny with the Star of David on his forehead, and a pair of
- [The art of Egyptian bus travel](https://globalsalsa.com/art-of-egyptian-bus-trave/) - I was stuck on a bus travelling from the Mediterranean town of Marsa Matrouh back to Cairo, watching the nerdy, diminuitive, slapstick actor, Mohamed Henedy, who despite (or perhaps because of) appearing no more than five feet tall with a baby face, feels the need to shout his way through every movie. Napoleonic complex, if
- [Reasons why not to drink in Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/reasons-why-not-to-drink-in-egyp/) - Surely this pic is enough? Snapped in a shopfront in Downtown Cairo, Fenilad Fodka and imitation Johnny Walker whisky, though my favourite is still the 'Johnny Walking' brand. They're marked at 40% alcohol, but there's some watering going on here. Makes abstinence in Egypt that much easier, don't you think?
- [A budget tip for the Giza Pyramids](https://globalsalsa.com/budget-tip-for-giza-pyramids/) - We were prancing around the Pyramids the other day (as you do) and went inside for a look: it's been a year since I went inside the tombs, preferring to observe from a distance on horseback. The entrance fee for foriegners is currently sitting at LE60 (about A$12) with a further LE120 (A$23.50) if you
- [Honesty and Egypt Air](https://globalsalsa.com/honesty-and-egypt-air/) - A note I read recently in Egypt Air's inflight magazine, Horus, about air travel: "Wear comfortable/casual pants/shoes - sometimes it gets cold and there may not be extra blankets. Plus, they are usually too small to keep you warm..." Well, at least they're honest, and the tickets usually cheap.
- [Happy New Year.](https://globalsalsa.com/happy-new-year/) - Enough said...
- [Sultans of Bling](https://globalsalsa.com/sultans-of-bling/) - Most people visit Cairo for the Pyramids at Giza, Sakkara and Dashur. Many do it also for the medieval mosques in Islamic Cairo. But Cairo as a shopper's paradise like Hong Kong or Bangkok? Not quite. However, we've spent the past couple of days exploring the underbelly of Cairo's gold traders, in search of a
- [Christmas in Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/christmas-in-cairo/) - It just doesn't feel like Christmas here in Cairo. No matter how many plump plaster-cast reindeers and glitzy gold Christmas trees in the mall. No matter how many boys selling Santa hats (including a frightening,'Silence-of-the-Lambs'-style with an eyeless, flayed rubber Santa face hanging below the fringe. No matter how many times Nile FM can play
- [Dead in the Water (or, How I Caught a Cold in the Name of Work)](https://globalsalsa.com/dead-in-water-or-how-i-caught-cold-in/) - I had to do it, even though it is the middle of winter. I had to swim in the Dead Sea, then cover myself in a thick black mud and then sit on one of Jordan’s cold, unsunny, stony beach to wait for the mud to dry till it cracked on my skin and fell
- [What you didn't know about Jordan..](https://globalsalsa.com/what-you-didnt-know-about-jordan/) - The Dead Sea is 400 meters below sea level, the lowest point on earth. Jordanian wine is actually very palatable. Cheap labour comes from Egyptians. In winter, racing camels are rugged up with a poncho with a hole cut out for the hump to slip through. Jordan is actually the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, ruled
- [Temple fatigue](https://globalsalsa.com/temple-fatigue/) - I admit it: I have been avoiding Jordan. After a solid effort schlepping around Egypt’s antiquities, not to mention those of Morocco and Iran, I thought the ancient city of Petra, built around the first century BC, would be just wasted on me. I was suffering a serious case of temple burn-out. Show me another
- [Jordan: of magic and the ownership of miracles](https://globalsalsa.com/jordan-of-magic-and-ownership-of/) - “And this is where Jesus was baptised,” said the guide, pointing at a dry riverbed. The empty creek is an arm of the River Jordan. From our position in the far west of Jordan, we could see the skyline of Jericho, and later, when the sun went down, the lights of Jerusalem. A short walk
- [The plight of the pigeon](https://globalsalsa.com/plight-of-pigeon/) - The first time I looked up, properly looked up, in medieval Cairo, I noticed weird wooden towers built on the top of apartment blocks. “What are they?” I asked the old man showing me the view from a mosque in Cairo’s City of the Dead. “Hammams”, he said. “Bathrooms?” I thought. How weird! People climb
- [Sandboards, springs and the Schumacher of Siwa](https://globalsalsa.com/sandboards-springs-and-schumacher-of/) - It's an obvious fact that once Cairenes are more than 15km past the outskirts of their town, they must tie a scarf on their heads. Preferably a black-and-white checkered one, and then a pair of mirrored aviator sunglasses, which seem to look good only on Arabs. Inevitably, we Caucasians end up looking like bad Tom
- [Visiting the Oracle](https://globalsalsa.com/visiting-oracle/) - "Who goes to Siwa for three days?" a local asked me. Well, me. And my 20 new friends. I could see the Siwan local's point, though. Siwa is an oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, just 50km from the Libyan border. To call the road journey there a slog is an understatement: it took us 12
- [Watching the movies, watching the moviegoers](https://globalsalsa.com/watching-movies-watching-moviegoers/) - My ears are still doing that weird void of silence things after an assault in the cinema at Cairo's glamour mall, City Stars. I know Egypt has only two levels of volume: off and 10 and like the rest of the region, love nothing more than a good blast of polar-strength air-con. Loud and cold
- [The night before Eid](https://globalsalsa.com/night-before-eid/) - The streets are filled with sheep and the occasional cow in the last days before Eid, the Feast of the Sacrifice. The sheep have been set into makeshift pens and are guarded day and night by a shepherd. They are going for LE1500, or about A$300 each. That means there’s a whole lotta cash messing
- [Animal kingdom visits Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/animal-kingdom-visits-cairo/) - Cairo is gearing up for Eid. Last night, as I closed my windows, I heard the familiar sounds of geese disturbed in their sleep, the rooster trying out his pre-dawn lungs and a new sound, the baa-ing of sheep. This is in central Cairo. Farmers are bringing in their livestock to sell for slaughter during
- [Football: the drug of the nation?](https://globalsalsa.com/its-been-days-now/) - It’s been days now. Days since Egypt was defeated by Algeria in its last chance to play in the 2010 World Cup. But Egypt’s not letting go. Even though Ireland is calling for a rematch from a goal handballed in by a French player who admitted his deed, and the whole European soccer scene is
- [Tension in the hours before Algeria-Egypt match](https://globalsalsa.com/palpable/) - Palpable. That's the word of the day. The final qualifier between Algeria and Egypt is being played at 7.30pm local time today, in Sudan. Because it's not in the Cairo stadium, like Wednesday's match, when Egypt managed to stave off defeat to go to a rematch, there's less traffic clogging the streets as we saw
- [Monkey business and Pet Shop Boys](https://globalsalsa.com/monkey-business-and-pet-shop-boys/) - Cliched title, I know. Due to popular demand, I went back down to the pet shop that had a monkey/ape (I'm not so good at primate identification) and snapped a pic for you. And there were two! The one I saw the other day is the larger, hairier one. For your edification, people, he is
- [Weird spotting on Cairo streets](https://globalsalsa.com/weird-spotting-on-cairo-streets/) - Weird things spotted in a neighbourhood walk today: Entire buses full of red, white and black painted men geared up for the Egypt v Algeria match tonight. Cappuccino-mint flavoured toothpaste. A large caged ape for sale on the footpath. Ah, lovely Cairo.
- [Egypt-Algeria match fever](https://globalsalsa.com/egypt-algeria-match-fever/) - Tickets went on sale today for the Egypt v Algeria match on Saturday. Boys have already started selling flags on the streets in the lead-up to the match, and it's rivaling swine flu as the top story of the day. This is Egypt’s last chance to get into the 2010 World Cup, and the build-up
- [Getting piggy](https://globalsalsa.com/getting-piggy/) - I got a call from a friend today: he was livid. His kids' expensive school here in Cairo has been closed because of an outbreak of swine flu - a common story, even my bro is enjoying a little paid holiday due to the same at his school in Ukraine. However, when my Egyptian friend
- [Copping it not so sweet](https://globalsalsa.com/copping-it-not-so-swee/) - Yesterday there was a loud bang outside my window. I went outside to check to find police blocking off street. Mild panic, as I live beside one of the city's palaces, where Obama dossed for an hour or two when he was in Egypt earlier this year. The traffic started to pile up as the
- [Bedouins and Beyonce](https://globalsalsa.com/bedouins-and-beyonce/) - About a month ago, Adam, spotter of weird internet stuff par excellence, sent me a link to a ‘beautiful camel’ competition in Dubai with a question: do they have anything like this in Egypt? I asked friends who said,”Belle, where are you living? Of course we do!” But they’re not easy to find like those
- [Love, acid and lost shoes: notes from Cairo's dailies...oes:](https://globalsalsa.com/love-acid-and-lost-shoes-notes-fro/) - A snippet from a regular column in The Egyptian Gazette by journalist Hugh Nicol, titled “Red-Handed”, which salubriously details local crimes, very often featuring rather horrific crimes of passion. See below. “A 23-year old woman called Samar Attiya got her revenge on the lover who refused to marry her by pouring acid on a sensitive
- [At the feet of gods: Cruising Lake Nasser to Abu Simbel](https://globalsalsa.com/at-feet-of-gods-cruising-lake-nasser-to/) - Hi all, Egypt's going great guns in the Australian press at the moment. This piece appeared this week in Sydney's Sun Herald newspaper. Much is drawn from blogs, so don't yell if you think you've read some of it before! At the feet of gods: Cruising Lake Nasser to Abu Simbel If you were asked
- [The prince and I](https://globalsalsa.com/prince-and-i/) - It's not quite The King and I - but here's me and the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, at Alamein's Commonwealth War Cemetery on Saturday, which was the day the UK remembered its war dead in the World War II battles that took place here. Ok, I wouldn’t say he’s standing BESIDE me, but you
- [The grand old Duke of York/had 7,000 men...](https://globalsalsa.com/grand-old-duke-of-yorkhad-7000-men/) - Today, I trotted around shamelessly trying to get in a photo op with the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. Well, what else would you do on a Saturday afternoon. I even had my own papp, ok, so I begged him to get the snap and hopefully he'll send through. In the meantime, here's my official
- [Smokin' in Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/smokin-in-cairo/) - Just to prove I'm not moaning on Facebook about nothing, here's the lead story for this week's English version of Al-Ahram newspaper. 'For once, as it turns out, the burning of rice chaff by Nile Delta farmers is not responsible for the seasonal air pollution known as the black-cloud phenomenon, writes Mahmoud Bakr. Or so
- [All quiet on the North African front...](https://globalsalsa.com/all-quiet-on-north-african-fron/) - All quiet...until tomorrow, when I visit the former North African front of World War II, the village of El Alamein on Egypt's Mediterranean coast,130km west of Alexandria. Here was fought what Winston Churchill described as one of the defining battles of that war, on 22 – 26 October 1942. It is estimated 80,000 soldiers have
- [Horsing about in the desert - from Giza to Sakkara](https://globalsalsa.com/horsing-about-in-desert-from-giza-to/) - Pink, Princess and Apple (To’faa): it sounds like picnic of Barbie dolls rather than three horses heading out for the 35km round trek between Giza and Sakkara pyramids – from one of the world’s most touristy sites to its lesser known cousin. In fact, dating from 2650BC, Sakkara is the world’s oldest stone monument. Unlike
- [Cruising the Nile on the cheap](https://globalsalsa.com/cruising-nile-on-cheap/) - Hi all, here's a story I had published in Australia's Sun Herald newspaper recently about cruising the Nile in Cairo. Enjoy! October 4, 2009 Exploring the Nile in downtown Cairo comes with volume control. WHAT Cheap Nile cruises in Cairo. WHERE The Nile River, runs through downtown Cairo. HOW MUCH From 4 Egyptian pounds (about
- [Time travel and the adaan](https://globalsalsa.com/time-travel-and-adaan/) - Legend goes the mosque in Shali town, in the Siwa oasis, was the last to use a live adaan. Now, they’re all voice recordings that vary with every mosque. Sometimes, I love it. I love it when I’m up working late and I hear the fajrthe call at morning light. Cairo is so still, you
- [War and Peace (the short, Austral-Egyptian version)](https://globalsalsa.com/war-and-peace-short-austral-egyptian/) - The blog is quiet: I'm stuck inside working all week. Really, I could be anywhere, not in the raucous hype that is Cairo. The only difference is the phone is Skype and sending photo disks takes a week longer than if I was in Aus (Egypt Post fluctuates between unbelievably speedy and slower than a
- [Open for business](https://globalsalsa.com/open-for-business/) - There's a bunch of boys outside my window clapping along to the beat of a drum. They couldn't control themselves - football-mad Egypt just beat Italy in the Under 20s World Cup, which is being hosted in Egypt this month. It wasn't a win; it was a route at 4-2 to the home country. Australia's
- [The post-feast hangover hanging over Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/post-feast-hangover-hanging-over-cairo/) - Well Ramadan has ended, and so has Eid el-Fitr, the three day 'small' feast that follows. It's back to work, though the first day was a lot quieter than a normal working day in Cairo. It's as though a collective hangover has dropped onto the city. The first night of the feast was celebrated by
- [Wraps off the republic](https://globalsalsa.com/wraps-off-republic/) - Battling hijab hair and the basic black wardrobe, fashion is flourishing in Iran. Click here for a link to this story in the Sydney Morning Herald's travel section...
- [Cash cows vs cash crisis](https://globalsalsa.com/cash-cows-vs-cash-crisis/) - I'm taking a jump from markets in Morocco to a global wage comparison survey just released by UBS. The annual survey finds that Zurich workers are the best paid in the world, Sydney's so-so and Cairo? Hmmmm. Here's an extract from Forbes.com "To crystallize the meaning of earnings in different countries, the study introduced a
- [Sold on Marrakech](https://globalsalsa.com/sold-on-marrakec/) - Marrakech's streets are so full of markets and shops you hyperventilate with the desire to buy everything, all at once. Long strips of brightly coloured woven fabric made from aloe vera plant. Nomad’s carpets. Natty leather slippers, babouches, in a rainbow of colours. Leather bags, cushions, belts. Spices. Kaftans. What do you want? Oil from
- [Luxury trademarked:La Mamounia](https://globalsalsa.com/luxury-trademarkedla-mamounia/) - Hotel porn: I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe the new La Mamounia. It is an absolute privilege to be able to test drive a hotel before it opens to the public – there are just 20 or 30 of us staying in this hotel of about 200 rooms. The staff are there before
- [The beating heart of Marrakech](https://globalsalsa.com/beating-heart-of-marrakec/) - Djamma El Fna is pumping. Smoke from the grill of stand 29 pumps out across the square, putting a mystical haze across the snake charmers, fortune tellers, monkey pimps and men who are dressed like lumpy women, with a scarf across their faces, bellydancing to a crazy band, money in the tambourine, please. I take
- [First look at Morocco's revamped La Mamounia](https://globalsalsa.com/first-look-at-moroccos-revamped-la/) - The orange Hermes everywhere! The brass chandeliers! The bed that could fit a football team! The incessant petit fours at every turn! The pillows, the linen, the Dedon furniture on the extended balcony, the views over palm trees and the High Atlas mountains - Morocco (and North Africa's) most famous hotel, La Mamounia, is nearly
- [Villas Fawakay](https://globalsalsa.com/villas-fawakay/) - Doris the pregnant donkey wanders past, going home to her corral, the peacocks, Frank and Stein, sleep on the thatch roof of the bar, the two long little dogs, Woof and Whatsit, are sitting at our feet while we have a glass of wine as the sun sets over the pool. The villas are all
- [Rabat and the spirit of Ramadan](https://globalsalsa.com/rabat-and-spirit-of-ramadan/) - It is raining. It is SO raining. Rabat and Rain. Rabat is an hour by train from Casablanca, and I’m sure it’s a nice town. Pretty. Whitewash buildings echoing the Portuguese style. I read about the pirates and prisons, I saw cannon holes and fortresses. The studded blue doors and pretty pots of the rocky
- [Of all the gin joints in all the world...](https://globalsalsa.com/of-all-gin-joints-in-all-world/) - This being Casablanca and all, my Casa-based friend Jody and I wandered into Rick’s Café, modeled on the gin palace that appeared in the Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall Hollywood movie, Casablanca. Beautifully decorated and spanning three levels with a terrace (closed because of heavy rain) and a comfortable lounge area that has that movie playing every
- [Cruising Casablanca](https://globalsalsa.com/cruising-casablanca/) - It bodes ill for my bank balance that the first photograph I take in Morocco is of a necklace. Massive rough chunks of amber strung carelessly on a piece of wool. Ibrahim, the trader, was dozing in the sun, but instinct led him to quote A$75 for the necklace. We didn’t strike a deal, but
- [Midnight feast](https://globalsalsa.com/midnight-feas/) - The other night, I had a knock at my door. It was the daughter of the mesaharati, a man in the neighbourhood who walks through the streets banging a drum to wake up those who might otherwise sleep through the night and miss sohoor, the last meal before first light, when fasting begins. He's sort
- [Notes from Ramadan](https://globalsalsa.com/notes-from-ramadan/) - It’s 2.30am and I can hear the blender start up. It happens every night, I could just about set my clock to it when my neighbour starts clinking pots and pans. It’s time when the Muslim women of Cairo get up to prepare sohoor, the last meal before first light. If they are observant of
- [Feasting, fasting and fighting](https://globalsalsa.com/feasting-fasting-and-fighting/) - The fasting always gets to the market boys after 3pm. The hours before fitar (known as breakfast even though it occurs around 6.30pm – it’s literally, ‘breaking the fast’) are known as the starving hours. Of course, it must be harder for those fasting when Ramadan falls in summer, when the days are longer. Downstairs,
- [Sweet tooth](https://globalsalsa.com/sweet-too/) - Hi all - a lighter blog back home in Cairo after the last, fairly grim one I'll admit, which was a radio script of a piece for Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE, on the drought in Kenya. I got caught out today. In aimless wanderings around my neighbourhood, trying to find shops open in the middle
- [Kenyan drought sees tribes go walkabout](https://globalsalsa.com/kenyan-drought-sees-tribes-go-walkabou/) - The four Maasi tribeswomen are keen to talk. Sitting on the bare ground as red dust swirls around us, they tell how the drought across the East African country of Kenya has affected them. Twenty men from the 110-strong village of Elerai, on the Kenya-Tanzania border have taken their cattle and are droving them on
- [Farewell to coconuts and mangos](https://globalsalsa.com/farewell-to-coconuts-and-mangos/) - Mombasssssa, Mombasa, baby. Where coconuts wash up on the shore and there are three different kinds of arrowroot on the breakfast buffet. The very name of this city conjures up white sand and tropical rhythms. It’s only when you leave the game parks and return to Kenya’s cities that you realise how poor this country
- [A horn for a horn](https://globalsalsa.com/horn-for-horn/) - Poaching in one of Kenya’s premier national parks, Amboseli, is at 20-year highs, says the African Wildlife Foundation, which reported in April that 703kg of whole or partially chopped elephant tusks were confiscated from poachers in the park. That’s about 50 elephants worth of tusks. Apparently they’re reaching US$38/kg on the Chinese market. Wholesale price,
- [Notes from meetings with the Maasi](https://globalsalsa.com/notes-from-meetings-with-maasi/) - During an afternoon siesta in my tent in The Mara, I hear the cluck and warble of two little Maasi herdboys at play. Their cattle are grazing on the opposite side of the River Talek, tales swishing against the low vegetation. I know the two boys are sitting in a little grove opposite my tent.
- [In bed with...](https://globalsalsa.com/in-bed-wi/) - In bed: There’s an elephant on the other side of my tent. I can hear it ripping apart the foliage beside my bed. It would be three meters from where I’m lying, with nothing but a pen to defend me, which, I surely feel, is NOT mightier than the sword, in this instance. At first,
- [A dry issue](https://globalsalsa.com/dry-issue/) - Everything is at the waterhole even though it’s an unfashionable time to be drinking, now at lunchtime – despondent wildebeest drink morosely, zebras kick and frolic, baboons spit and argue, buffalo drink deeply and resignedly and even an impala skips between them, a scout for his bunch of bachelor boys, males who have been cast
- [Carnival of the Animals](https://globalsalsa.com/carnival-of-animals/) - Tonight, from my balcony, I watched the carnival of the animals: deer of all sizes from the tiny dik dik to the walking meal that is the waterbuk, trotting elegantly to the water only to be frightened off by a bunch of savage, brawling baboons, running along the ground at breakneck speed, their angry growls
- [Buffalo King](https://globalsalsa.com/buffalo-king/) - The crunching of rabbit bones is loud, even from 15 meters away, over the din of my chatty guide. The lion licks the bones, tears the meat and crunches merrily, all the while looked on by a dissatisfied lionesse. “There’s something not right,” says Julius. “Males don’t stop to eat during copulation.” It’s the lion
- [The not-quite-Nairobi tour](https://globalsalsa.com/not-quite-nairobi-tour/) - Today was mega-Nairobi tourism, though interestingly enough, nothing I saw was actually in Nairobi. It was all on the fringes of the city of nearly four million, which includes the famed Kibera slum, home to up to a quarter of the city’s population. We drove straight from the airport to the district of Karen, named
- [Jambo (hello), Kenya](https://globalsalsa.com/nairobi-has-schweppes-tonic-omg-i/) - Nairobi has Schweppes tonic! OMG, I’m a tonic snob. But then I’m being a snob by where i’m eating tonight – on the verandah of the Norfolk Hotel, the oldest hotel in Nairobi and older even than the London doyennes the Ritz and the Savoy. It’s the stuff hotel snob dreams are made of. Unfortunately,
- [Flesh and modesty in the name of religion](https://globalsalsa.com/flesh-and-modesty-in-name-of-religion/) - There are a suspiciously large amount of semi-naked men walking around Cairo airport as I am on my way to Nairobi. They are clad only in sparkling towels and shawls. Obviously, it's time for the Haj - the revered pilgrimage to Mecca that should be undertaken by Muslims at least once in the lifetime. The
- [Cruise control](https://globalsalsa.com/cruise-contro/) - Like many other countries, Egypt can't see why a motorbike or scooter should cope with just one or two people (even if the cost of petrol is, by our standards, incredibly skimpy, at just LE2, or about 22c/litre). Newborn babies balanced on women’s laps as they ride side-saddle is common, while six is the highest
- [Sufism in Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/sufism-in-cairo/) - The Hussein mosque in one of Cairo's main square is one of the holiest in the country - take a look inside and encased in a silver casket is the head of Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammad (though as the Lonely Planet points out, a mosque in Iraq alleges it has the same
- [The tonic of life](https://globalsalsa.com/tonic-of-life/) - “Here’s your G&T,” says my current visitor, Andrew. Surely one of the nicer sentences in the English language. Tonic is a soft drink regarded with an evil eye here in Cairo as the locals are sure the only reason we foreigners want to drink it is to dilute our gin. So it’s not so easy
- [Oases in Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/oases-in-cairo/) - This week, the temp ramped it up and the aircon died, so it was time to road-test two places to swim in (or near) Cairo. The first, the Atlas Zamalek Hotel has a rooftop pool that the Lonely Planet says is usually empty. Which of course made us deeply sceptical as once it’s in that
- [Shopping on the metro](https://globalsalsa.com/shopping-on-metro/) - This morning on the train, I bought some hair pins and that liquid glue that instantly sticks your fingers together. A woman in a niqab (the black robe that covers everything but eyes) was doing a roaring trade in eye liner pencils for about 50c each. This is one of the great things about Cairo
- [Pilfering the petrodollar](https://globalsalsa.com/pilfering-petrodollar/) - You know I've mentioned before that Cairo's full of Gulf Arabs at the moment, who will enjoy Egypt's 'cooler' weather (it's all relative) until just before Ramadan, the holy month of Islam, which starts on 21 August and continues until 19 September. Apparently the rush of new movies and theatre is another drawcard for the
- [Ghost town Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/ghost-town-cairo/) - When I went to my Arabic class early on Thursday morning, the taxi skimmed through empty streets so fast, the driver HAD to give me change (normally they will shamelessly pocket whatever you put in their hand, even a 100 pound note, unless you put up a fight). Where was everyone? They'd all scooted up
- [Peter Pan of the Arab world](https://globalsalsa.com/peter-pan-of-arab-world/) - It's been just three weeks since Amr Diab's latest album, Wayah, was released, and I'm convinced that all Egypt knows every song, every word. For those playing catch-up (I was ignorant till I came to Egypt) Amr Diab is Egypt and the Arab world's most successful pop star. He's the face of Pepsi in this
- [Egypt morphs into the Gold Coast](https://globalsalsa.com/egypt-morphs-into-gold-coas/) - For those of us on the other side of the world, it's easy to forget Egypt is on the Mediterranean. Countries such as Italy and France have already cashed in on that claim to fame. But the north coast of Egypt is hundreds of kilometres of big, blue Mediterranean sea. Mind you, it also has
- [The price of Paradise](https://globalsalsa.com/price-of-paradise/) - This weekend, I went to Paradise. Entrance costs 50 Egyptian pounds ($12). But if you know a guy who knows a guy, you can do it for maybe 20 ($5)… Summer in Cairo? Insa! (Forget it!) Come Thursday evening, the highways are packed with cars and minibuses taking Cairenes away from the city and to
- [Arabic 102](https://globalsalsa.com/arabic-102/) - My word for the day is sorsarrrr – which uses the letter ‘sohd’, not to be confused with the normal ‘s’ sound, or ‘seen’, as the letters are called. TECHNICAL: NO NEED TO READ! The sohd (to give it a phonetic value) is a sound made deep in the throat, one of the many letters
- [Learning Arabic 101](https://globalsalsa.com/learning-arabic-101/) - A friend who lives in another non-English speaking country made a wise observation recently. "You can ask for a drink and say 'no' and 'thank you', and you think you're a hero of the language. It's when you go any further that you realise you're a complete novice." It's the classic case of the wise
- [Sweating it out on the sauna express](https://globalsalsa.com/sweating-it-out-on-sauna-express/) - The temp in Cairo is ramping, up with 40 degrees and sunny blue skies the norm. It's the time when the city fills up with gulf Arabs coming to the cooler climes for summer, escaping their countries' 50+ degree heat. Yesterday, I made the mistake of travelling on the metro in morning peak hour. It
- [McArabia: would you like dogma with that?](https://globalsalsa.com/mcarabia-would-you-like-dogma-with-tha/) - Far be it from me to plug a multinational food chain, but ... rules were made to be broken. Let me phrase it this way: if there was no other option to eat in Egypt except at a McDonalds, you could do far worse. Stop gasping people - I'm talking about the McArabia. Hurrah, McDonalds
- [Kartell does Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/kartell-does-cairo/) - Last night, I went to the opening of the new Kartell store (www.kartell.it) Yes, Kartell, the Italian home of Phillipe Starck - he of the occasional tables made from plastic garden gnomes and transparent furniture - amongst others of the designer world's elite. I confess I was super surprised by the annoucement - sure I
- [Little black number](https://globalsalsa.com/little-black-number/) - I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how differently black is perceived in the West and here in the East. In the west, fashion has been dominated by the LBD (little black dress) for decades. When we want to look chic, we wear black. When we can’t find anything else in our wardrobes, we throw
- [Get some pork on your fork](https://globalsalsa.com/get-some-pork-on-your-fork/) - This is an old rumour, but a deliciously naughty one worth repeating in the light of the swine flu fanaticism: word has it on the streets that the government has been selling pork meat for the stunningly low price of LE5 (just over a US dollar) a kilo. Of course, the pork comes from the
- [Egypt beats Italy in World Cup frenzy](https://globalsalsa.com/world-cup-frenzy/) - You know Egyptians, like so many other countries, adore their football. I didn't think it could get any more frantic, but with the World Cup looming in South Africa, the fanaticism has grown to an obsession. Especially after a close match with the champions of Brazil. So imagine what Cairo was like the other night
- [Swine fever grips Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/swine-fever-grips-egyp/) - Despite the fact that Egypt killed most of its pigs in a bizarre species-cleansing exercise that had pig owner (Christians) disraught, the country is not immune to swine fever. There are 29 cases to date, with new cases developing daily, mostly in people returning from travel in Canada and the US. So of course, we
- [Riots in Iran](https://globalsalsa.com/riots-in-iran/) - It is so disappointing to see the riots and subsequent deaths in Iran over the outcome of the presidential elections, which saw the incumbent conservative president, Ahmadinejad, re-elected with two-thirds of the vote. Such a country - with an embarassment of riches from culture to design, landscape and natural wealth - deserves better. Judging from
- [A realeo, trulio boutique hotel in Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/realeo-trulio-boutique-hotel-in-cairo/) - I recently reviewed a gem of a boutique hotel, Le Riad, in Gamilaya, the medieval Islamic Cairo. It sits on the main street of El Muizz, which stretches from the city gates of Bab el-Futah to Bab Zuewelia. The area nearby is the mad bazaar of Khan al-Khalili and is a pedestrian zone (mostly, excluding
- [Curious and curiouser II](https://globalsalsa.com/curious-and-curiouser-ii/) - Curious facts about Iran Mark II: Petrol costs 10c/litre (and that’s Australian cents). Traffic is so bad, motorbikes regularly drive on the footpaths. Iran holds the second largest number of executions after China and before the US. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by the death penalty, but you can get a government loan for a
- [Pulling the pin on Iran](https://globalsalsa.com/pulling-pin-on-iran/) - It's not really fair to Iran for this to be the last picture I post before I fly back to Cairo - not fair on a country whose people have offered me tea, bus tickets and, memorably, the food on their forks. But hey, I've posted a pic of one of the greatest exports, Persian
- [A dressing down on Islamic dressing up](https://globalsalsa.com/dressing-down-on-islamic-dressing-up/) - Today I got yelled at for my hair. It wasn’t that it was squashed and unkempt, but that a lock of hair had escaped my scarf. The woman who yelled at me was a mosque attendant, but I wasn’t in a mosque, I was on the street. “Keep your higab on!” she yelled loudly and
- [Iranian democracy](https://globalsalsa.com/iranian-democracy/) - "Stay away from politics and religion unless your Iranian host broaches the subject first," warms the Lonely Planet. Politics is all we've talked about. That's all anyone's talking about. And then we go visit mosques every day. The Iranian election for president is reaching fever pitch, with 70 million people going to the polls on
- [Curious and curiouser](https://globalsalsa.com/curious-and-curiouser/) - Curious facts about Iran: The Sydney Morning Herald website is filtered, but New York Times loads fine. Chris de Burgh is the only Western artist to have performed in post-Revolution Iran. Persian (Farsi) is in the top three most common blogger language, as Iranians take to the internet to vent. Saffron ice cream tastes kind
- [Carpet burns](https://globalsalsa.com/carpet-burns/) - Deep excitement, people! I bought a carpet. Of course. Could you imagine going to Persia and NOT buying a carpet? The total excitement about it is that I am in Yazd, which is a relatively sleepy, though very, very beautiful town made of mudbricks, but local wisdom says that carpets should be bought only in
- [The dust of ancient history](https://globalsalsa.com/dust-of-ancient-history/) - I love Shiraz – deep, red and Australian. But Shiraz the city from which the grapes originated, is nice too. Set in central Iran, the modern city of 1.6 million dwells alongside the ancient seat of power of the great Achaemenid dynasty, Persepolis. Excavated in the 1930s from the layers of dirt from the encroaching
- [Hijab hair](https://globalsalsa.com/hijab-hair/) - Day One in Iran and the novelty of doing a French Lieutenant’s Woman hasn’t yet worn off. By that I mean wearing the hijab, or head scarf, that is compulsory for all females above the age of nine under Islamic law. Actually, nine is an arbitrary age, it really means when a girl reaches maturity.
- [The charm of Sharm part II](https://globalsalsa.com/charm-of-sharm-part-ii/) - Sorry for the delay on this second installment on Sharm, I've had flu, deadlines and no internet. I’m going to do a shameless plug for two things – one, the hotel, Creative Grand Sharm, a 3-star with the most fantastic pool, and the hotel booking website, http://www.booking.com/, which got me a room for US$20/night, less
- [The charm of Sharm, Part 1](https://globalsalsa.com/charm-of-sharm-part-1/) - It’s a mark of what to expect when I hit the southern Sinai resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh when am chatting with a guy in the sandwich queue in the town before Sharm, and he shows me, using fingers hidden beneath the counter, how much the sandwiches really are, and not the foreigner price. Sharm
- [El Ahly stops the nation](https://globalsalsa.com/el-ahly-stops-nation/) - If you wanted to tear through the congested Cairo streets at 200km/hour, last night would have been a good time to do it, as 20 million people were all glued to the TV or at the football stadium in Alexandria as the reigning champions of Egyptian soccer, El Ahly, played the young guns of Ismalia.
- [Getting porked](https://globalsalsa.com/getting-porked/) - Rumour has it on the streets that the government is selling pork meat for the stunningly low price of LE5 (just over a US dollar) a kilo. Of course, the pork comes from the pigs who have been slaughtered in the fever of swine flu. A further rumour, which I’m SURE is not true, is
- [Crossing the lion(s)](https://globalsalsa.com/crossing-lions/) - On the way to Alexandria the other afternoon, a big billboard reared its head up on the horizon 59km till Alex. Lion Village. What to be done? We pulled over, of course. So there they were, the show-stoppers of the African continent: the lions, the ostriches, the flamingos, a solitary baboon...the differing breeds of deer,
- [Kevin lost in translation?](https://globalsalsa.com/kevin-lost-in-translation/) - Is anyone else getting bombarded by Turkish Airlines ads featuring Kevin Costner? It's one of those weird 'Lost in Translation' famous-people-go-to-weird-places to make-a-lot-of-money scenarios, I think. Is it confined only to this part of the world? The statement from Turkish Airlines says it all: they chosen Kev because he was a very good actor and
- [Touching the Pyramids](https://globalsalsa.com/touching-pyramids/) - Sometimes life throws nice gigs at you like the other night, when I spent a night at Mena House Oberoi , Egypt's classic grand hotel, for a review for UK website Travel Intelligence. The hotel's celebrity list reads like a who's who of all worlds - Roger Moore stayed here when filming The Spy Who
- [Conversations from the Haut-Savoire, France](https://globalsalsa.com/conversations-from-haut-savoire-france/) - Conversation 1: We had walked around the beautiful Lac e Montriond till we reached a bustling restaurant populated by way too many blonde children wearing pink. Adam: I don’t think I’ll drink. I’ll just have a beer.Me: You’re becoming French, Adam.Conversation 2: Emma, having once again managed to smear her face, up to her eyebrows
- [Boyzone plays Tuscany](https://globalsalsa.com/boyzone-plays-tuscany/) - Is this the most perfectly Tuscan pic? Aside from the crappy sky. There was a ladder, an old bike and a low-slung chair perched against an olive tree. Hello, is there a Vogue stylist walking ahead of me? I thought, as I hummed my way through Boyzone's hitlist (ok, so there IS a downside to
- [High life in France](https://globalsalsa.com/turning-far-north-after-tuscany-i-had_06/) - Turning far north after Tuscany, I had a couple of days in the Haut-Savoie town of Les Gets, close on the French side of the the Swiss border. Will it surprise you to learn landscape is absolutely, chocolate-box spectacular? Mountains rise steeply from the collection of villages which number 500 in the off-season, but still
- [Didn't the paparrazi start in Italy?](https://globalsalsa.com/didnt-paparrazi-start-in-italy/) - Tuscan walking tour in a nutshell: So much walking! So much rain! Not enough sit-down time! Too much food! I would like to think that my eating activities have been balanced by my exercise activities, but I think not. In a classic 'eating to feel better' move that could be the US's motto for the
- [Old gold in Toscano](https://globalsalsa.com/old-gold-in-toscano/) - I now know why Milano Centrale railway station smells like a large urinal: because the toilets cost E1 entrance! We were all titillated with the news that it cost a pound to ‘spend a penny' in London’s Harrods, but this is not quite the same experience. It even has electronic gates like the metro stations.
- [Close encounters](https://globalsalsa.com/close-encounters/) - The crush of the design precinct ZonaTortona was so great, it took 15 minutes to walk the tiny footbridge from the railway tracks to via Tortona the other night. The crush was mighty. The man behind me was squished to me a level of closeness normally associated with three dates and dinner. Never have I
- [Milan: passion for passion...and fashion](https://globalsalsa.com/milan-passion-for-passionand-fashion/) - What to wear today: shall I choose the black outfit, or the black outfit? The question asked by a thousand designers in Milan each morning for the past week. Interestingly, the people of Milan are not adverse to uber-bright colour. There were plenty of canary yellow accessories and memorably, yesterday, a woman walked past me
- [Conversation from Milan during design week](https://globalsalsa.com/conversation-from-milan-during-design/) - Conversation1:Me: Can you suggest somewhere good to eat around here (in the design precinct Zona Tortona)?Design fetishist: Sure Go down via Savona, past the garden full of Dedon furniture, and turn right. Conversation 2: ‘Dark Matter’ by Wyssem and Cécile Nochi. The blackest and most humorous display around, the signature piece of this display of
- [Designs on life](https://globalsalsa.com/designs-on-life/) - You may or may not know, but I'm in Milan at the moment, at the Milan Design Fair. It. Goes. Off. Officially goes off. There are 400 events on this week, from cocktail parties to art gallery launches. Apparently this number is down on last year, thanks to boring credit crunches. I think I have
- [The disgusting and the divine](https://globalsalsa.com/disgusting-and-divine/) - If you were ever after a slice of streetlife in Downtown Cairo, taking a bench at Restaurant Zezo the Disgusting's (est 1962) would give you ringside seats. The restaurant is a string of benches and trestle tables set on the roadside opposite one of Cairo's city gates, Bab el-Futah. Built in the 11th century, the
- [Well noted](https://globalsalsa.com/well-noted/) - In between slogging around Cairo and assorted towns, I've occasionally been doing some non-travel work - here's a new blog from fabulous Australian colour and trend forecaster Bree Leech, who put up with bad phone lines and weird time zones to pull together this feature for Home Beautiful magazine. The blog might go a bit
- [Sniffing the Breeze](https://globalsalsa.com/sniffing-breeze/) - A lot of people have asked what happens in Egypt during Easter. Well, for a start, the Coptic Christian Easter kicks off a week later - so it all starts happening this weekend. It's a holiday for most of the country; like anywhere in the world, people are happy to take a public holiday for
- [Life in Cairo, as the newspapers see it](https://globalsalsa.com/life-in-cairo-as-newspapers-see-i/) - Cairo has a number of rather slim English language papers, mostly condensed versions of their Arabic bretheren, including Al-Ahram, the Egyptian Gazette and the Daily News.In a quick flick through the papers this weekend, here are a few of the key news items:· Up to 50,000 private medical clinics went on strike against doctors’ low
- [The Oracle speaks](https://globalsalsa.com/oracle-speaks/) - The wind rustled the dusty palm trees and tickled the waters of the salt lakes down below as I stood on a hilltop, surveying the Siwan oasis. The hill has particular significance – it was the site of the Siwa Oracle, where Alexander the Great came in 331 BC to ask the question he would
- [Veiled truths of Siwa women](https://globalsalsa.com/veiled-truths-of-siwa-women/) - Out here in the remote oasis of Siwa, the women of both dominant species – donkeys and humans – are kept under wraps and away from temptation. The women are heavily cloaked, walking fabric shops, while the female donkeys are kept in a village away from the town, the males brought there to mate with
- [Oasis life: Siwa](https://globalsalsa.com/what-is-it-that-makes-people-fall-in/) - What is it that makes people fall in love with Siwa? Is it the isolation? With an 11-hour bus journey, or eight hours by car, Siwa’s not exactly on the way to anywhere. The oasis is 50km from the Egypt-Libyan border, set on the lip of the Great Sand Sea, which stretches the length of
- [Match making](https://globalsalsa.com/match-making/) - The locals say that Egypt lost the 2010 World Cup (that’s football/soccer, to the unawares) largely because its taxi system was so bad (the meter is but a decorative concept, seat belts optional and a pricing system based on the quality of your shoes). But if the FIFA authorities had seen the crush outside the
- [Getting hitched, Part II](https://globalsalsa.com/blog-pos-2/) - For those of you who can’t get enough of weddings, the latest wedding I attended was that of Mokhtar and Samira. This time, I actually knew the couple getting married, as opposed to gatecrashing or being brought along as wedding arm candy. The format for an Egyptian hotel wedding (as opposed to raucous street weddings)
- [Forgiveness, pleasure and grace: a lesson in Arabic](https://globalsalsa.com/forgiveness-pleasure-and-grace-lesson/) - “The Arabic language is very rich,” said didactic Nael, one of my first friends in Egypt, and himself a French teacher. The more I learn about Arabic, the more I have to agree. The great apartment block I live in is known as Borg el Samah, ‘tower of forgiveness…’Almost everyone’s name has a meaning –
- [The Sun City](https://globalsalsa.com/sun-city/) - I realise I haven’t written much – if anything – about my new place, and the point of this blog was to get a bit up close and personal, unlike my newspaper articles. So: I now live in Heliopolis, as the foreigners call it. The locals call it Misr el Gedida, or New Egypt. The
- [Getting hitched...](https://globalsalsa.com/getting-hitched/) - Last night was the fourth wedding or engagement I have attended (or inadvertently gate crashed) in the past fortnight. The first was while I popped into a hotel to pick up a friend, and we found ourselves embroiled an engagement zaffa in the foyer, sort of like a formal annoucement where the engaged couple walk
- [Getting tongue around shisha, TB and mishmish](https://globalsalsa.com/getting-tongue-around-shisha-tb-and/) - I was in a shisha café the other night up the back of Sheraton Helipolis, in the north of the city. It was very chic and urbane, serving espresso and the fragrant, bubbling tobacco pipes. There was even a menu in Arabic and English. Firstly, there were the listings of what flavoured tobaccos they have,
- [Wild-eyed in the Cairo night](https://globalsalsa.com/wild-eyed-in-cairo-nig/) - So it's the weekend, you've been out, had dinner, a maybe few drinks and then... not in the mood for a club? Why not ride a camel around the back of the Pyramids? What a great idea. People, I am serious. We'd been out, eaten, drinks, and then someone looked up into the sky. Full
- [Windswept and interesting](https://globalsalsa.com/windswept-and-interesting/) - Everyone loves a good windswept look - think Kate Winslet in Titanic. But on Saturday, it all got a bit ridiculous, with a fierce wind, the khamaseen, whipping across the city. This wind tears across the country from the west, hauling great quantities of dust and sand with it. It was said to have choked
- [Giving Cairo the horn](https://globalsalsa.com/giving-cairo-horn/) - God love the Bangles for giving lazy journalists the phrase ‘walk like an Egyptian’. I’ve written about Cairo traffic before (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/africa/curse-of-toot--and-karma/2008/09/04/1220121408026.html) and I thought that while I am now quite experienced – which means I don’t have to hold anyone’s hand (unless I really want to) to cross the road – I had a road-to-Damascus
- [Language a labour of love](https://globalsalsa.com/language-labour-of-love/) - "The best way to learn a language is in bed," said Khaled. "But then you'll just learn words you can't use in public," I argued. "Get a polite boyfriend," he advised. I hasten to add, reader, that we had met just two days before, and were in a car, hurtling through the dark night toward
- [Cairo on the run](https://globalsalsa.com/cairo-on-run/) - You know there are days when you're SO lazy, you just want to bunker down and order out for everything. Happily you can do just that in Cairo, from razors to bread, laundry, home-cooked meals, plumbers or cleaning ladies. The takeaway food scene is hyper-developed: McDonalds delivers well into the dead of night, another place,
- [Currying favour](https://globalsalsa.com/currying-favour/) - Body of Lies seems to have become the textbook movie for the Middle East. Starring Leonardo di Caprio and Russell Crowe, it moves between Jordan, Iraq and other countries in this region – rumour has it Egypt, with its notoriously bloody-minded attitude toward movies, which has seen pyramids constructed in Morocco countless times, wrote itself
- [bombing in khan al-khalili market](https://globalsalsa.com/bombing-in-khan-al-khalili-marke/) - Yesterday's bombing in the world's greatest tat market is such a shock - what possible motives could the bombers have? I was up at Khan al-Khalili a couple of days ago, visiting a jeweller friend, and had left a watch up there to be fixed. I meant to go up to collect it yesterday, but
- [From here to Infiniti in the desert](https://globalsalsa.com/from-here-to-infiniti-in-deser/) - Just spent two days in the desert on .... of all things... a 4wd rally. Cold (but sunny), I went along to the rally as a volunteer photographer, snapping blokes hauling their rally cars over sand dunes. Frightfully un-pc in terms of saving dunes etc, too much fun camping in the desert - these Arabs
- [Victorian bushfire appeal](https://globalsalsa.com/victorian-bushfire-appea/) - Hi all, take a look at this fundraiser by the Victorian wine industry to help with the bushfire appeal. It's being put together by www.winestar.com.au and the prizes are amazing, there are 33 in all, but of course the key thing is you're supporting a Victorian industry as well as the appeal. Winestar's Bert Werden
- [What's a weekend?](https://globalsalsa.com/whats-weekend/) - As with all Muslim countries, the official weekend starts late Thursday and all day Friday, which means the city absolutely pumps on Thursday nights as everyone mainlines sugary pastries and soft drink - surely a lethal combination but the only way you can hang out till 4am, hey? For a city that's always bubbling, it
- [Back to the city...](https://globalsalsa.com/back-to-city/) - The first glimpse of Cairo wasn’t encouraging…what you could see of it. Flying in at 10am, all that was visible was the desert road from the east Egyptian city of Ismalia leading straight and true into the heart of a very large, very grey cloud. It was purely educated conjecture that led me to assume
- [Experiences of Jordan](https://globalsalsa.com/experiences-of-jordan/) - The cultural custard that is the world is painfully evident in Amman at 4am today, as I decamp from Bangkok for a four-hour killer stopover till Cairo. The toilet attendant is Egyptian, the woman naughtily smoking in the loos and chatting with her is Iranian, but gets her Australian citizenship in April. The Starbucks is
- [Return to Cairo, the City Victorious](https://globalsalsa.com/return-to-cairo-city-victorious/) - I wanted to call this blog 'Return of the Killer Tomatoes' or 'Return of the Jedi' or ... 'Return of the King', but actually, it's me, not tomatoes or jedi or kings, who is returning. To Egypt. Yeah! There's an Egyptian saying, 'He (or she) who drinks the waters of the Nile will return'. While
- [Query?](https://globalsalsa.com/query/) - Well people, it hardly seems possible that the feast was so many days ago. I'm back in Melbourne and debating whether or not to upload unpublished blogs. Is it weird? There's so much more to write about, and I will be writing it all for upcoming magazines and newspapers. Can I beg your indulgence?
- [Blood on the streets, Eid al-Adha](https://globalsalsa.com/cairo-didnt-sleep-last-night-shops-were/) - Cairo didn't sleep last night - shops were open till around 4am, people wandered the streets eating ice cream, chilling out and waiting for prayers to commemorate Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice. A walk through Islamic Cairo saw flocks of sheep and tethered cattle in the main squares, being sold off to those
- [The Sacrifice begins](https://globalsalsa.com/sacrifice-begins/) - You could be forgiven for saying Egyptians just can't wait to begin the Sacrifice - the annual celebration of Abrahim offering to sacrifice his son for God's wishes. "The streets will run with blood," said friends ghoulishly. So it was a bit of a surprise when I came home tonight for a few hours' power
- [The highs and lows of Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/highs-and-lows-of-cairo/) - Well people, I can safely say that yesterday was a day of extremes for Cairo. The morning started with a visit to the animal section of Souk al-Gomma, the Friday market that rambles down dirt streets, beneath freeway flyovers, into the City of the Dead... Some of the products for sale are indistinguishable from the
- [Flocking to Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/flocking-to-egyp/) - There's a curious phenomenon occuring in Egypt at the moment. Suddenly, without warning, the streets are awash with sheep. Ok, not awash, but in a city the size of Cairo, or even Alexandria (which I've heard Cairenes refer to as a 'nice village'... with a population of six million), you just don't expect to turn
- [In Alex](https://globalsalsa.com/in-alex/) - Twenty men hang off the sides of the train’s engine, more sitting on the roof, arms and faces hanging from the windows – this is the third-class train from Cairo to Alexandria. In comparison, my first-class seat has air-conditioning and the windows are closed against the warm late afternoon air. Our train is watched by
- [Ship in the desert](https://globalsalsa.com/ship-in-deser/) - “Suez. Photograph. Quick!” We’d hired a minibus to take us back from St Katherine’s monastery to Cairo, a trip of about five hours which, on the public bus, takes between seven and eight. To make ends meet, the driver had filled the bus up with other passengers, who couldn’t work out what he was pointing
- [Peaking in Moses' footsteps](https://globalsalsa.com/peaking-in-moses-footsteps/) - St Katherine’s monastery is well and truly on the backpacker trail. From sunny Dahab or five-star Sharm el Sheik, you can take a tour up to the mountain, leaving around 11pm, start climbing for 2-ish and hit sunrise on the peak for 5. Backpackers mingle with religious tourists from around the world, but the morning
- [St Katherine and the Burning Bush](https://globalsalsa.com/st-katherine-and-burning-bus/) - People, I’m going to go all philosophical here. And I’m going to talk about religion. So rein in your dogmas… The reason why I’m broaching the most unpopular dinner party conversation is my recent visit to St Katherine’s monastery, high up in the mountains on the Sinai peninsula. The Sinai is one of those places
- [Work life](https://globalsalsa.com/work-life/) - In Egypt, a job is for life. So the young man who works the café near my apartment, who is fresh and full of fun, jokes and energy, will stay there until he ceases to work. Perhaps he’ll move to another café owned by the same man, but most likely he’ll stay. “There’s not a
- [Arabian nights](https://globalsalsa.com/arabian-nights/) - Short of a trick to get the party going? Hassan el Hilali, Egyptian actor, singer and man who does weddings, parties, anything with a variety show of dwarves and strongman antics. I ran into him in a 24-hour cafe in Mohandiseen. Girls, he swears by Taft hairspray to keep his moustaches so fiercely erect. Far
- [Dahab rehab](https://globalsalsa.com/dahab-rehab/) - Ok, I have to give the credit for this headline to finance newsbreaker Pete. Thanks Pete. Dahab is indeed Rehab. The silence, the lapping water, the camels. The obession grows, people. Dahab is a night bus away from Cairo, which in itself is a fairly horrific experience as the bus loads at midnight, a video
- [Red Sea Utopia](https://globalsalsa.com/red-sea-utopia/) - At sunset sitting at a cafe on the shores of the Red Sea, the water laps at the sea wall on which the cafe is built. We sit at long lounges of cushions and low tables, watching the sun set and the moon rises over the skyline of Saudi Arabia, across the narrow Gulf of
- [King of Eternal Time](https://globalsalsa.com/king-of-eternal-time/) - Son of the sun, king of eternal time, said the stentorian voice in the darkness. Clouds of light chased across the night sky to grow stronger until they illuminated the buildings before us, the temples of Abu Simbel. Whoever designed Egypt's Sound and Light shows is a total drama queen. The last stop before on
- [Tonic for the soul](https://globalsalsa.com/tonic-for-sou/) - I finally just found a shop that sells tonic. I forgive Cairo the black snot, the toilets like running sores and even the all-night industrial tailor whose workshop is above my bedroom. All for tonic water.
- [Sands of Time](https://globalsalsa.com/sands-of-time/) - For four days, the Kasr Ibrim (and yours truly, ensconced in a Royal Suite) coasted over the still waters of Lake Nasser, the world’s largest artificial lake. Compared with the cruise up the narrow Nile from Luxor to Aswan, you can barely see the coastline – at times the lake stretches up to 30km wide.
- [Sex, death and meglomania](https://globalsalsa.com/sex-death-and-meglomania/) - You lucky things, you get a triple hit of deathbyblog, as I’m about to head off into the great Lake Nasser, a phone and internet-free zone which spans 500km, 300km in Egypt, the rest in Sudan. The fabulous MV Antares had satellite internet the entire time we slowly schlepped the 215km south from Luxor to
- [Sleeping through ancient history](https://globalsalsa.com/sleeping-through-ancient-history/) - I am the first to admit that I used to fall asleep during Ancient History. So I am fully geared up for a dose of temple fatigue, which I confess was starting to kick in yesterday, despite a gorgeous guide, Mary, and the beautiful island setting of the Temple of Philae, just near the famous
- [Tea and tobacco](https://globalsalsa.com/tea-and-tobacco/) - Every day on the MS Antares, our receptionist, Haggag, gives us an itinerary. Some of the four days we are on board, it’s littered with temples and tombs. For a few brief periods, we have the morning or the afternoon free to watch life on the Nile – the white egrets on the wind, little
- [Holiday fatigue](https://globalsalsa.com/its-truism-that-you-work-harder-on-your/) - It's a truism that you work harder on your holidays than you do in real-life work, which explains why the clerk on reception was ringing us at 4am with a cheery hello. The balloon ride we'd booked on was the lure to drag ourselves out of bed at this ungodly hour, nearly two hours before
- [Secrets of a goddess](https://globalsalsa.com/secrets-of-goddess/) - Last night, we jumped ship to another vessel, the MV Antares, reportedly one of the best boats on the Nile, rivalling the Zara, which staff say just has a better marketing budget. It is divine. We will spend four nights sailing Luxor to Aswan, which takes just three hours by road. The areas around here
- [Luxor: temples and tombs](https://globalsalsa.com/luxor-temples-and-tombs/) - Luxor, land of temples and tombs, is completely at ease with its tourist population...as long as the tourists buy their dodgy necklaces, suspect pashminas (um, from Peshwar?), faux papyrus or, perhaps, a glow-in-the-dark phosphorus pharoah. If you were Pharonically obsessed, you could even buy a t-shirt (Egyptian cotton, of course), screenprinted with a pic of
- [Blame it on the rain](https://globalsalsa.com/blame-it-on-rain/) - Of course we missed the train to Luxor. Blame it on the rain. It rains in Cairo around six times a year – just enough to settle the dust and not enough to warrant bringing everything in off the roofs or balconies, which are the city’s junk and rubbish repositories. The roads, which dip in
- [Pigeon English](https://globalsalsa.com/begoon-it-reads-on-menu/) - ‘Begoon,’ it reads on the menu. I’m getting pretty good at menus, but this one has me stuffed. And stuffed it is. Begoon is the Arabgleeze for ‘pigeon’. (is there a word for Arabic-English, like Spanglish? Let’s make one up!) Yes, the flying rat. So I order the begoon, sitting in the most touristy midan
- [City of the Dead](https://globalsalsa.com/city-of-dead/) - In the City of the Dead, Turkish generals sleep under marble slabs, while the children of their former subjects live, breathe, work and play above ground, alongside the tombs. Some of Egypt's most significant architecture is here, such as the Mosque of Sultan Qaitbey, its walls backing onto slums where flocks of goats and armies
- [The lovely Sabah](https://globalsalsa.com/in-city-of-dead-turkish-generals-sleep/) - Here's Sabah, my cleaning lady. She does her washing at my apartment and waits for it to dry, watching TV and drinking tea, apparently. I think she also washes my clothes? I'm not quite sure. But she already calls me 'habibi' (equiv: hmmm, darling?), and for that I think she's fantastic. Or she was in
- [treading on camel toes](https://globalsalsa.com/treading-on-camel-toes/) - This morning, Juan and I went to the Birqash camel market, about 45km out of Cairo. We did a very good deal with a smooth-talking guide with car, Tarek, who was hanging around the pension. I have to remember what the very shady Mr Ali (there are many Mr Alis in this town) said to
- [juicy...mangoes](https://globalsalsa.com/juicymangoes/) - Well, you can tell I'm back on form tonight if I'm thinking of food. As Egyptians often are. They breakfast last, lunch later and dinner - a light snack - can be as late as 1am, Tarek told me today. So when we were having dinner at the Citadel view restaurant in Al Azhar at
- [Pale and uninteresting](https://globalsalsa.com/pale-and-uninteresting/) - It was a poor food decision that's seen me locked in my room today, feeling wan and looking disgusting. I think I'm over the worst of it, but still fragile. On the upside, I should lose weight, as I haven't eaten anythis solid today, though the clerks here at the pension have been bringing me
- [Apartment grief](https://globalsalsa.com/apartment-grief/) - I saw another couple of apartments today, here in Downtown. These ones work out to about $125/week before I start haggling, which is the same as what I pay at this pension, but of course you get privacy, a kitchen etc. I’m not an industrial chemical kinda girl, but this one requires a healthy dose
- [Belly dancing on the Nile: the ultimate cliche?](https://globalsalsa.com/oooo/) - Tonight, I teamed up with John and Mohommad again to discover new ahwas (cafes) and brought along Juan, a Spaniard who's also staying at this pension. I love the carte blanche that being with Mohommad brings. The cafes are down back alleys, through the slimmest streets and in the courtyards of apartment blocks. Most have
- [One-legged bar hop](https://globalsalsa.com/one-legged-bar-hop/) - Continuing the saga of delving deep into the seamy side of Downtown Cairo, last night I went for a beer with my new friends John, a Londoner, and his mate Mohammad. They've kindly let me tag along with them as John's apartment hunting as well. I have to say - there were some highs, there
- [Omar Sharif causes riots Downtown](https://globalsalsa.com/omar-sharif-causes-riots-downtown/) - When I finally woke up late this morning, after slinking in at 2am, I spent the day on the balcony writing a story about a $1200/night spa in Thailand. It's a far cry from this $10 pension in Egypt. The difference is hard to comprehend. Most of Egypt slept late, I think. The streets were
- [Slightly sheepish](https://globalsalsa.com/slightly-sheepis/) - Cairenes, it has to be said, can talk the leg off a donkey. It is actually quite hard to be alone, when you are on your own. Nobody believes you want to sit solo, so the invites to join their table or to walk and talk are constantly forthcoming, which is very welcoming, but at
- [The night before...Eid](https://globalsalsa.com/night-beforeeid/) - 30-09-08Last night, Cairo went off. Off, I tell you, going into overdrive in the days before Eid, the three-day holiday. It is pumping down there in the streets. Thousands of people in the squares, drinking tea, eating sweet biscuits and honey cakes, smoking sheesha. They will go until dawn, damn them and their car horns.
- [Amazing co-incidences 101](https://globalsalsa.com/amazing-co-incidences-101/) - The taxi driver to the airport in Abu Dhabi was Egyptian, and after going misty-eyed about his homeland, where I was bound, he told me to watch out for the traffic. He’s right, it’s manic. “But people help you cross the street,” I protested.“Only for money,” he responded. I thought about it. In fact, it
- [Welcome to Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/welcome-to-cairo/) - 28/9/08Welcome to Cairo. I think I’ve heard that phrase more than 10 times in the past four hours. You could never accuse Cairenes of being inhospitable.True to previous form, I have managed to find a hotel room where the “L” from the neon hotel sign is right outside my window. The good news is that
- [the occidental tourist's kick-off](https://globalsalsa.com/occidental-tourists-kick-off/) - Ok, so maybe this is a bit premmy - I'm not even in Egypt yet. But I got hounded so much about my shabby correspondence record so much, I thought I would just run away and not talk to anyone for a few months. Then Miss Rebecca, beauty editor-cum-psychic (she SO knows next season's colours
- [3 of the best: Inflight gear](https://globalsalsa.com/3-of-the-best-inflight-gear/) - State of Escape totes. Some people fill their carry-on luggage with ginormous headphones (I'm more of an earbud person, myself). For others, it's bags of snacks (handy if you're doing it lean, and on a low-cost carrier). I find that between a camera, laptop and big scarf, the corners of my inflight bag are filled
- [New groove in ancient Athens](https://globalsalsa.com/750/) - 00 A magnet around which the city revolves, this is the view of the Acropolis from the top floor of my hotel, New Hotel in Athens. It's ironic that the more I travel, the less I post on my poor blog. I'm just back from nearly two months in the Middle East, working from my
- [The most amazing man-made structures in Asia](https://globalsalsa.com/the-most-amazing-man-made-structures-in-asia/) - Faster, higher, longer and older: there's no doubt Asia plays the one-upmanship game when it comes to architectural statements. It's a tough call, making a list of the top 10 architectural statements in Asia. You could go crazy on weird shopping malls or kooky skyscrapers, or totally old-school with a list of heroic monuments and
- [Lloyd's Inn review, Singapore](https://globalsalsa.com/first-blog-post/) - This is the excerpt for your very first post.
- [Where to eat in Shanghai: Chef Jan Van Dyk](https://globalsalsa.com/where-to-eat-in-shanghai-chef-jan-van-dyk/) - Recently, I was in Shanghai for a three-day eat fest. While there, I caught up with chef Jan Van Dyk of the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund. The South African born chef calls Australia's Sunshine Coast home, so we swapped favourite cafes... and settled on a shared fave, Hand of Fatima at the upmarket
- [Hotel review: Swissotel Resort Phuket, Thailand](https://globalsalsa.com/hotel-review-swissotel-resort-phuket-thailand/) - With Muay Thai in the gym, a broad sweep of beautiful white-sand beach, poolside kid manicures and Phuket's cha long liquor at the poolside bar, what's not to love about this family-friendly hotel? Set on the broad sweep of Kamala Bay, on Phuket's west coast, Swissotel Resort Phuket is two minutes' walk to the beach,
- [Smoking hot: Volcano tourism](https://globalsalsa.com/smoking-hot-volcano-tourism/) - Fascinated by nature’s spectacular fireworks, a breed of adventurers chase volcanic eruptions around the world. Peering into a chasm into the earth’s crust is the chance to peer into creation – pits of bubbling, boiling lava, deep rumbling voices from our planet’s core, plumes of sulphurous gases and the spectacular, powerful arcs of red-hot,
- [Hello world!](https://globalsalsa.com/hello-world/) - Welcome to Oshine Sample Content Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
- [Get out of town: Discover a Mornington Peninsula drive](https://globalsalsa.com/get-out-of-town-discover-a-mornington-peninsula-drive/) - Polperro Winery, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia Photo: Belinda Jackson It's an hour from Melbourne, and when you're among the leafy vines of one if its fine wineries, with an overflowing picnic basket, the Mornington Peninsula is a whole different state of mind. I had my first holiday here on the peninsula (aged 5 months), and
- [Light shines on Red Centre](https://globalsalsa.com/light-shines-on-red-centre/) - Australia's Red Centre is the dictionary definition of remote - scattered hamlets of humanity, vast cattle stations and long, open drives. Perfect for the baby roadtripper. No, really. It's just a three-hour drive on sealed roads between Uluru and Ayres Rock Resort to Kings Canyon, add on another leg and you've hit the heady delights
- [Glamping in Oman](https://globalsalsa.com/glamping-in-oman/) - Warning: gratuitous carpet shot! Pulled this one out of the archives when thinking about the things I love most about Oman, in prep for my chat with the food & travel radio show @amoveablefeast_3aw this morning. Glamping in style in the Wahiba Sands, on the edge of the mysterious Empty Quarter.
- [Of pharaohs and heroes: Journey to Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/of-pharaohs-and-heroes-journey-to-egypt/) - The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.Photo: Belinda Jackson I am so pleased to publish this blog about my recent article in Luxury Travel magazine. This is the first story I've written for a mainstream publication about Egypt since its revolution, back in 2011. The feature had the invaluable support of Abercrombie & Kent, which maintains its
- [Welcome to Australia's best beach (which you've probably never heard of)](https://globalsalsa.com/welcome-to-australias-best-beach-which-youve-probably-never-heard-of/) - Cossies Beach, Cocos (Keling) Island. Photo: Rick Soderlund It's official: Australia's best beach is …drum roll… probably nowhere you've ever been. This week past saw a chat with beach expert Brad Farmer, who has ventured across Australia, boardies on, notebook in hand, to find our best beach. His new book lists the top 101
- [Egyptian style makes a comeback in ‘balady chic’ movement](https://globalsalsa.com/egyptian-style-makes-a-comeback-in-balady-chic-movement/) - Last year, I was building a kitchen in my apartment in Cairo. I knew the tiles I wanted – classic arabesque style. You know, I wanted something out of an Andalusian palace or a Turkish mosque in my kitchen, please. I showed a photo to the tile salesman, who smarmily told me that they don’t
- [Notes from a roadtrip: Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/notes-from-a-roadtrip-egypt/) - I've been told to sit and be quiet while we gun it to Cairo, along the Red Sea coastline. The Driver needs to concentrate, dodgung potholes and trucks covered with pictures of Mickey Mouse - which doesn't make them benevolent road companions in the slightest. From the road from El Gouna, in Egypt's south
- [Architecture tourism: The world's inspiring new architecture](https://globalsalsa.com/architecture-tourism-the-worlds-inspiring-new-architecture/) - Castles, towers, skyscrapers: all rich pickings for the travelling architecture lover. Why not add a hill of garbage, a modern mosque or the site of the world's oldest drawings to your travels in 2017? There's some crazy, dreamy, ambitious and unexpected architecture projects opening in 2017, from Denmark to Doha. Take a look at my
- [Doha, Qatar: A three minute guide](https://globalsalsa.com/doha-qatar-a-three-minute-guide/) - The highlight of the world's richest country is the white mud-brick buildings of Souq Waqif, where veiled women henna ancient designs on hands while men gather to gossip in sparkling white thobes (robes). With a look over his shoulder at nearby Dubai, Qatar's Emir has seen the writing on the wall and is preserving his emirate's
- [Places to eat in Vienna, Austria: Six of the best](https://globalsalsa.com/places-to-eat-in-vienna-austria-six-of-the-best/) - Start the day like a local with an eye-pokingly strong coffee black coffee and a kipferl, forefather of the croissant. Photo: Belinda Jackson From sausage stand to schnitzel, I give you are six eats you can't miss in Vienna (even if you are a Michelin-star obsessive). Road-tested one and all, they range from family heurigers
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- [Design is not how things looks, but how things work](https://globalsalsa.com/design-is-not-how-things-looks-but-how-things-work/) - Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim.Malorum temporibus vix ex.
- [Its time to change the web, one pixel at a time](https://globalsalsa.com/its-time-to-change-the-web-one-pixel-at-a-time/) - Detracto erroribus et mea. Malorum temporibus vix ex. Ius ad iudico labores dissentiunt. In eruditi volumus nec nibh blandit deseruisse ne nec.
- [Youtube & Vimeo videos](https://globalsalsa.com/youtube-vimeo-videos/) - Nihil quaeque moderatius quo ut, eu vix noster fierent postulant. Est ut magna tation, nec timeam tractatos dissentiunt id, ne integre albucius eam.
- [Soundcloud Audio Post Format](https://globalsalsa.com/soundcloud-audio-post-format/) - Malorum temporibus vix ex. Ius ad iudico labores dissentiunt. In eruditi volumus nec, nibh blandit deseruisse ne nec, vocibus albucius maluisset ex usu. Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Ut nec hinc dolor possim. An eros argumentum vel, elit diceret duo eu, quo
- [How to make a million dollars ?](https://globalsalsa.com/how-to-make-a-million-dollars/)

## Pages

- [Travel Writer of the Year](https://globalsalsa.com/) - Travel journalist, writer, author. ASTW & TravMedia Travel Writer of the Year. Writes for Sydney Morning Herald & The Age. Podcaster @ The World Awaits. Middle East traveller, craves the open road.
- [BLOG](https://globalsalsa.com/blog-3/) - Blog from the notebook of a travel journalist
- [MEDIA APPEARANCES](https://globalsalsa.com/media/) - Radio, TV appearances, podcasts and print features published by travel writer & journalist Belinda Jackson
- [BLOG](https://globalsalsa.com/blog/) - This is the page where users will find your site's blog
- [BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS](https://globalsalsa.com/books-publications/) - Books and website written by Belinda Jackson
- [MY STORY](https://globalsalsa.com/my-story/) - Adventure. Wanderlust. Explore with Australian travel writer Belinda Jackson
- [PODCAST](https://globalsalsa.com/podcast/) - THE WORLD AWAITS PODCAST The World Awaits is Australia's only weekly travel podcast, dropping on a Thursday morning (Melbourne time) on every major podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and you can also listen in via our website, theworldawaits.au I co-host the podcast with my friend, colleague and journalist Kirstie Bedford and our sound producer
- [Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/egypt-3/) - How to travel in EgyptFind ancient pharonic sites and medieval Islamic architecture amongst a not-quite modern city.
- [Portfolio](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio-2/) - PODCAST 1 2 3 4
- [PORTFOLIO](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/)
- [Contact](https://globalsalsa.com/contact/) - Contact freelance journalist Belinda Jackson
- [Home](https://globalsalsa.com/travel-blog/) - Travel writer, journalist Belinda Jackson
- [Oceania and Antarctica](https://globalsalsa.com/oceania-antartica/) - Images of Oceania and Antarctica by journalist Belinda Jackson
- [Home](https://globalsalsa.com/about/) - Travel writer Belinda Jackson
- [Sample Page](https://globalsalsa.com/sample-page/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger
- [Sample Page](https://globalsalsa.com/sample-page-2/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger
- [accordian toggle test](https://globalsalsa.com/accordian-toggle-test/) - Here goes your title Contact abcd Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industrys standard dummy text ever since the 1500s. Here goes your title Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industrys standard dummy
- [sample test page target](https://globalsalsa.com/3768-2/) - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industrys standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
- [Sample Test Page](https://globalsalsa.com/sample-test-page/)
- [Middle East](https://globalsalsa.com/middle-east/) - Tips for travelling in the Middle East
- [Africa](https://globalsalsa.com/africa/) - Travel tips in Africa
- [Sri Lanka](https://globalsalsa.com/sri-lanka/) - Amangalle Detail Galle Cityscape Galle Local Galle Local 2 The Ramparts Save
- [The Americas](https://globalsalsa.com/the-americas/) - At The Markets Rural British Columbia Vancouver Bridge Vancouver Night Whistler Mountie
- [Published Work](https://globalsalsa.com/published-work/) - Save Save Save Save
- [Photos](https://globalsalsa.com/photos/) - OCEANIA & ANTARTICA MIDDLE EAST AFRICA THE AMERICAS SUB CONTINENT Save Save Save Save Save Save Save Save Save Save
- [Porfolio](https://globalsalsa.com/porfolio/)
- [Home 2 - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/home-2/) - The Ultimate Wordpress Theme WE ARE OSHIN.|| A CREATIVE DIGITAL AGENCY|| BASED IN LOS ANGELES, CA|| LEARN MOREBUY NOWThe Ultimate Wordpress Theme DREAM, CREATE, INSPIRE We are Oshine, a beautiful responsive multi-purpose wordpress theme that comes with 12 unique and stunning demos. We have crafted each and every demo with extensive care and precision and the
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- [Left Sidebar - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/left-sidebar/) - LEFT SIDEBAR PAGE Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ut nec movet doming integre. Vis sale mnesarchum no, sea eu dignissim hendrerit, quo no wisi munere vocibus. Duo dictas nonumes consequuntur te, an suscipit referrentur qui. Ad vis assum possim accommodare. Ne per lorem consetetur. Ad adolescens intellegebat usu, regione volumus prodesset pro cu. No ius
- [Services - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/services-2/) - DESIGN Ut nec hinc dolor possim.Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Ut nec hinc dolor possim. Mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Ut nec hinc dolor possim. Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea
- [Team - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/team/) - SWAMI CEO, Designer and a Food Enthusiast Curabitur aliquet quam id dui posuere blandit. Cras ultricies ligula sed magna dictum porta. Donec rutrum congue leo eg et malesuada. MIKE Designer and a Fitness Freak Curabitur aliquet quam id dui posuere blandit. Cras ultricies ligula sed magna dictum porta. Donec rutrum congue leo eg et malesuada.
- [Home 3 - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/home-3-2/) - We are Oshine, a beautiful responsive multi-purpose wordpress theme that comes with 12 unique and stunning demos. We have crafted each and every demo with extensive care and precision and the theme is power packed yet easy to use. Learn MoreWHAT WE DO Redefining Brands using Creative and Modern Design DESIGN Proin facilisis varius nunc. Curabitur
- [Contact - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/contact-2/) - CONTACT USWe are located in downtown New York, just a few blocks from Times Square Contact Info 66 Nicholson Street, Buffalo, NY 14214 001-123-456-7890 swami@brandexponents.com On the map Google Maps API KEY is missing Reach out to us We love to listen and we are eagerly waiting to talk to you regarding your project. Get in
- [About Us 2 - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/about-us-2-2/) - WE ARE OSHINE A Modern Creative Agency based in Los Angeles, California Redefining the web Ut nec hinc dolor possim.Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Ut nec hinc dolor possim. Mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim.
- [About Us - v233](https://globalsalsa.com/about-us-3/) - ABOUT USWho are we ? WE ARE OSHINE A beautiful responsive multi-purpose wordpress theme that comes with 12 unique and stunning demos Proin facilisis varius nunc. Curabitur eros risus, ultrices et dui ut, luctus accumsan nibh. Fusce convallis sapien placerat tellus suscipit vehicula. Cras vitae diam ut justo elementum faucibus eget a diam. Etiam sodales
- [My Account - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/my-account-2/) - [woocommerce_my_account]
- [Portfolio - v1](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio-full-width-2/) - PORTFOLIO

## Portfolios

- [Page Builder V9](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/page-builder-v9/) - ABOUT THE PROJECT Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Ut nec hinc dolor possim. An eros argumentum vel, elit diceret duo eu, quo et aliquid ornatus delicatissimi. Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend
- [Page Builder V8](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/page-builder-v8/) - UGMONK by Jeff Sheldon BRANDING / WEB DESIGN / IDENTITY / MAGAZINE THE BREIF Proin facilisis varius nunc. Curabitur eros risus, ultrices et dui ut, luctus accumsan nibh. Fusce convallis sapien placerat tellus suscipit vehicula. Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Detracto erroribus et
- [Page Builder V6](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/page-builder-v6/) - Oshine - Wordpress Theme A Multi-Purpose wordpress theme with 12 stunning & unique demos. Crafted with passion & perfections Page Builder Oshine comes with our powerful custom drag & drop page builder. With visual previews in the backend and with unique features like copy & paste, you will fall in love with this super fast
- [Page Builder V3](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/page-builder-v3/) - HELLO POEM By Dennis AdelmannView Project
- [Page Builder V2](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/page-builder-v2/) - SUPER MODELS A Photoshoot for Supermag, in Los Angeles. CA ClientBrandexponentsProject DateNov 2014CategoryBrochures · MobileShare ThisView Project
- [Lightbox Gallery](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/lightbox-gallery/)
- [Carousel Gallery](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/width-double/) - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
- [Right Floating Sidebar](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/right-floating-sidebar-2/) - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
- [Left Fixed Sidebar](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/carousel-slider/) - Left Fixed Sidebar In accumsan metus at magna vehicula placerat tempor varius ipsum. libero, non congue odio vulputate eu. Phasellus euismod magna ac est. ClientNike - May 2013CategorySlider · Videos · WebShare ThisView Project
- [Left Floating Sidebar](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/left-floating-sidebar/) - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
- [Sidebar Slider](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/sidebar-slider/) - Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. In posuere felis nec tortor. Pellentesque faucibus. Ut accumsan ultricies elit. Maecenas at justo id velit placerat molestie. Donec dictum lectus non odio. Cras a ante vitae enim iaculis aliquam. Mauris nunc quam, venenatis nec, euismod sit amet, egestas placerat, est.
- [Lightbox Image](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/lightbox-image/) - Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting,
- [Page Builder](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/page-builder/) - WANDERLUST By Dennis Adelmann BRANDING / WEB DESIGN / IDENTITY / MAGAZINE THE BREIF Proin facilisis varius nunc. Curabitur eros risus, ultrices et dui ut, luctus accumsan nibh. Fusce convallis sapien placerat tellus suscipit vehicula. Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo mazim ex, ea errem eleifend definitionem vim. Detracto erroribus et
- [Full Screen Slider](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/full-screen-slider/) - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
- [Lightbox Video](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/lightbox-video/) - Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. In posuere felis nec tortor. Pellentesque faucibus. Ut accumsan ultricies elit. Maecenas at justo id velit placerat molestie. Donec dictum lectus non odio. Cras a ante vitae enim iaculis aliquam. Mauris nunc quam, venenatis nec, euismod sit amet, egestas placerat, est.
- [Right Floating Sidebar](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/height-double/) - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
- [Centered Slider](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/cam-shots/) - Fruit Custard Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s ClientUnsplashCategoryDual Carousel · WebShare ThisView Project
- [Right Fixed Sidebar](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/big-flex-slider/) - Right Fixed Sidebar In accumsan metus at magna vehicula placerat tempor varius ipsum. libero, non congue odio vulputate eu. Phasellus euismod magna ac est. ClientFreebies Bug - Aug 2013CategoryBrochures · PhotographyShare ThisView Project
- [Vertical Stacked](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/vertical-stacked/) - Vertical Stacked Portfolio Proin facilisis varius nunc. Curabitur eros risus, ultrices et dui ut, luctus accumsan nibh. Fusce convallis sapien placerat tellus suscipit vehicula. Cras vitae diam ut justo elementum faucibus eget a diam. Etiam sodales a sem vitae fermentum. Cras vitae diam ut justo elementum faucibus eget a diam. Etiam sodales a sem vitae
- [Stacked Sidebar](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/centered-slider/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin eu diam lorem, id scelerisque sapien. In accumsan metus at magna vehicula placerat tempor varius ipsum. libero, non congue odio vulputate eu. Phasellus euismod magna ac est.
- [Gallery](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/stanley-cubrik/) - Gallery Grid of images that open in a lightbox. 00000ClientPersonal WorkCategoryBrochures · Mobile · WebShare ThisView Project
- [Flow Carousel](https://globalsalsa.com/portfolio/bonsai/) - Invalid slider ID or alias. Flow Carousel Proin facilisis varius nunc. Curabitur eros risus, ultrices et dui ut, luctus accumsan nibh. Fusce convallis sapien placerat tellus suscipit vehicula. Cras vitae diam ut justo elementum faucibus eget a diam. Etiam sodales a sem vitae fermentum. Ea mei nostrum imperdiet deterruisset, mei ludus efficiendi ei. Sea summo

## Posts

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## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://globalsalsa.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [Travel](https://globalsalsa.com/category/travel/)
- [Travel News](https://globalsalsa.com/category/travel-news/) - Travel News
- [Europe](https://globalsalsa.com/category/europe/) - Europe
- [Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/category/australia/) - Australia
- [Asia-Pacific](https://globalsalsa.com/category/asia-pacific-region/) - Asia
- [Middle East](https://globalsalsa.com/category/middle-east/) - middle east
- [Recent Journeys](https://globalsalsa.com/category/recent-journeys/) - So Hot Right Now
- [Food](https://globalsalsa.com/category/food/) - Food Stories
- [South America](https://globalsalsa.com/category/south-america/)
- [Audio](https://globalsalsa.com/category/post-format-audio/)
- [Design](https://globalsalsa.com/category/design/)
- [Fashion](https://globalsalsa.com/category/fashion/)
- [Publications](https://globalsalsa.com/category/publications/) - As seen in publications.
- [Essentials Magazine Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/category/publications/essentials-magazine-australia/) - As seen in Essentials Magazine Australia.
- [Traveller](https://globalsalsa.com/category/publications/traveller-sydney-morning-herald/) - As seen in Traveller, in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers
- [Together Apart](https://globalsalsa.com/category/together-apart/)
- [Together Apart](https://globalsalsa.com/category/publications/together-apart-publications/)
- [Stories](https://globalsalsa.com/category/stories/)
- [Storytelling](https://globalsalsa.com/category/stories/storytelling/)
- [Wellness](https://globalsalsa.com/category/wellness/)
- [Hotels](https://globalsalsa.com/category/hotels/)
- [Podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/category/post-format-audio/podcast/)
- [Podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/category/podcast-2/)
- [wine](https://globalsalsa.com/category/wine/)
- [Media appearances](https://globalsalsa.com/category/media-appearances/)
- [Media](https://globalsalsa.com/category/media-appearances/media/)
- [Airline](https://globalsalsa.com/category/airline/)
- [Radio Interviews](https://globalsalsa.com/category/post-format-audio/radio-interviews/)
- [The World Awaits travel podcast](https://globalsalsa.com/category/the-world-awaits-travel-podcast/)

## Tags

- [Asia](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/asia/)
- [design](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/design/)
- [hotel](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/hotel/)
- [Singapore](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/singapore/)
- [Austria](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/austria/)
- [cafes](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cafes/)
- [Europe](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/europe/)
- [Food & Drink](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/food-and-drink/)
- [restaurants](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/restaurants/)
- [fashion](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/fashion/)
- [football](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/football/)
- [Spain](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/spain/)
- [sport](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/sport/)
- [China](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/china/)
- [Shanghai](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/shanghai/)
- [architecture](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/architecture/)
- [Middle East](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/middle-east/)
- [Qatar](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/qatar/)
- [Abu Dhabi](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/abu-dhabi/)
- [Australia](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/australia/)
- [Brazil](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/brazil/)
- [Denmark](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/denmark/)
- [France](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/france/)
- [Melbourne](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/melbourne/)
- [New York](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/new-york/)
- [Tasmania](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/tasmania/)
- [USA](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/usa/)
- [family](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/family/)
- [resort](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/resort/)
- [Thailand](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/thailand/)
- [Egypt](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/egypt/)
- [Cairo](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cairo/)
- [beach](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/beach/)
- [Cocos (Keeling) Islands](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cocos-keeling-islands/)
- [islands](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/islands/)
- [nature](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/nature/)
- [kids](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/kids/)
- [Stockholm](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/stockholm/)
- [Sweden](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/sweden/)
- [Central Asia](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/central-asia/)
- [Indonesia](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/indonesia/)
- [Shang](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/shang/)
- [Travel](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/travel/)
- [Uzbekistan](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/uzbekistan/)
- [Germany](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/germany/)
- [adventure](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/adventure/)
- [Oceania](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/oceania/)
- [Pacific](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/pacific/)
- [Papua New Guinea](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/papua-new-guinea/)
- [PNG](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/png/)
- [chef](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/chef/)
- [chin](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/chin/)
- [Filipino](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/filipino/)
- [tra](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/tra/)
- [cruise](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cruise/)
- [cruising](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cruising/)
- [history](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/history/)
- [river cruising](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/river-cruising/)
- [UNESCO](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/unesco/)
- [World Heritage site](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/world-heritage-site/)
- [desert](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/desert/)
- [Oman](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/oman/)
- [textiles](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/textiles/)
- [drive](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/drive/)
- [northern territory](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/northern-territory/)
- [remote](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/remote/)
- [roadtrip](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/roadtrip/)
- [tourism](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/tourism/)
- [wildlife](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/wildlife/)
- [airline](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/airline/)
- [beauty](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/beauty/)
- [cosmeceutical](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cosmeceutical/)
- [cosmetics](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/cosmetics/)
- [flight](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/flight/)
- [gadgets](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/gadgets/)
- [luggage](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/luggage/)
- [travel gear](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/travel-gear/)
- [accommodation](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/accommodation/)
- [hotel review](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/hotel-review/)
- [crocodile](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/crocodile/)
- [Darwin](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/darwin/)
- [hilton](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/hilton/)
- [pool](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/pool/)
- [Top End](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/top-end/)
- [tropics](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/tropics/)
- [Hindu](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/hindu/)
- [India](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/india/)
- [Jaipur](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/jaipur/)
- [Rajasthan](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/rajasthan/)
- [religion](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/religion/)
- [Pacific Islands](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/pacific-islands/)
- [Tonga](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/tonga/)
- [whales](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/whales/)
- [golf](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/golf/)
- [holidays](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/holidays/)
- [luxury](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/luxury/)
- [Mornington](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/mornington/)
- [Mornington Peninsula](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/mornington-peninsula/)
- [shopping](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/shopping/)
- [Victoria](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/victoria/)
- [wine](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/wine/)
- [winery](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/winery/)
- [Athens](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/athens/)
- [design hotel](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/design-hotel/)
- [Greece](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/greece/)
- [Hydra](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/hydra/)
- [island](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/island/)
- [Palestine](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/palestine/)
- [walking](https://globalsalsa.com/tag/walking/)
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