Sydney
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
If you are travelling to Sydney in late February, pack your highest heels or your shiniest boots, your shortest skirt or you most colourful overalls, your most uplifty bra or most studded leather vest and throw yourself into this most joyous and optimist event that celebrates and reinforces the diversity of Sydney we love.
Holiday Goddess Editors
Hobart
Hobart: Best Bakery
Close to the Saturday Salamanca Market and the catamarans to MONA, the chic European bakery, Daci and Daci, sells perfect picnic ingredients, or paper bags full of pastries to take home.
Jessica Adams
Sydney
Sydney: Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2020
“What Matters” is the theme of the 2020 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to embrace the issues of the LGBTI+ community (and the rest of us). The issues in 2020 range from belonging to sustainability.
Jessica Adams
Sydney
Sydney: The Explosive Cornelia Parker
British artist Cornelia Parker creates art by blowing things up.
Jessica Adams
Perth
Cottesloe: Luxury in Perth for Around $100
Forget Perth CBD. Just 20 kilometres away is the beautiful beachside suburb of Cottesloe where a hotel can cost around $100. Swim and be thankful.
Holiday Goddess Editors
Alice Springs
Alice Springs: Dining under the Australian outback sky
Dinner under the stars against the backdrop of sacred indigenous site Uluru is offered in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory with Sounds of Silence.
Tamara Pitelen
Hobart
Hobart: Some Say It’s The Best Shop In Tasmania
Hobart is so small that you can happily walk around it and think you’ve ‘done’ the shops – most of which are in or around the Elizabeth Street Mall.
Jessica Adams
Perth
Perth: The Best Breakfast in Town
When you’re travelling it can be hard to find a good, reliable cafe for breakfast. The world is full of runny under cooked fried eggs, watery scrambled eggs and toast with stingy butter.
Holiday Goddess Editors
Melbourne
Melbourne: The Library That’s a Bar
The biggest, most impressive library in Melbourne is also a bar. And a bookshop. And a cafe.
Jessica Adams
Sydney
Sydney: Drink Like Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel won Best Australian Album, in 1979, and also Best Australian Record Cover Design for the shot of the band taken in the Marble Bar in the Sydney Hilton.
Jessica Adams