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Parramatta – Western Star
Before freeways and paved roads, Parramatta was only accessed by the river. Now at 19km away from Sydney it’s not as remote as it once was and is the perfect’ new’ city to explore and uncover the secrets of good food, good architecture – old and new and good times. The city of Parramatta was […]
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A Posh Pet-Friendly Stay?
Yes indeed, at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney Up until recently there were only three hotels, one a boutique, in Sydney that invited pets into the hallowed halls of a hotel room to share with their owners. Unlike Britain and Europe, who love to accommodate their guests’ pets, Australia has had a no-paws rule in accommodation […]
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How to hotel! Stars & Stripes steal the show
With the ubiquitous hues of taupe, blonde, sand and stone populating fine hotels with a softness that almost prods a guest to shout “show me some colour”, QT Gold Coast has hit the spot and bucks the beige trend with a defined pop art palette that sets the style and personality of a hotel that […]
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PARIS: Baguettes – or the legend of the loaf
It was just a couple of weeks ago, I was driving from Charles de Gaulle airport into Paris and spied, shuffling along the street of one of the outlying suburbs a walking cliché, an old. hunched man, wearing a beret and carrying a baguette at 65cm in length. The ubiquitous baguette – bread of a […]
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How to go for gold – on Queensland’s Gold Coast
Queensland’s Gold Coast is fixed into the holiday psyche of Australians who love to holiday in a place of variety, charm and colour which displays the aesthetics of a true playground for all ages. Always appealing, always evolving, ever the charmer – Queensland’s Gold Coast is Australia’s favourite destination for young and older holidaymakers. As […]
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Birdsong – or uncaged birds
One of the most charming surprises on a walk through Sydney is an art installation in the laneway of Angel Place, just off George Street through to Pitt Street. Look up, look up to an array of empty birdcages of all designs suspended and hanging high. Artist Michael Thomas Hill had this splendid work Forgotten […]
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Is there a barber in the house?
Or, let’s visit saucy Seville Arriving in Seville on a sun-drenched early autumn day will set you up for your senses to be tickled and your spirit to be enriched. Various seasons spent here will prompt different moods – so let’s discover the city as the last of the soporific summer sun takes us on […]
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How to make sense of scents
or a little dab’ll do ya! I think I’m more of a sensory person than a tactile one – but I do like to touch food, tree trunks, sand, gum leaves, woollen fabric . . . mmm, maybe I’m both. But back to sensory. I love and adore perfume. I do not go a day […]
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Stranger Things . . . . or Australia’s strange landscapes
Whether your passion for the great outdoors landscape runs from desert, to the bush, mountain peaks, craggy coastal outcrops, rock formations that are just plain silly or vast sweeps of verdant valleys – Australia has enough diversity throughout all of its states and territories to rob the adjective bank “The two impulses of travel are […]
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