Category: Country

Lord Howe Island

From the top of Malabar Hill on Lord Howe’s northern tip, a mere 208 metres high, I survey the landscape before me.

Perth: Hillarys Boat Harbour

Hillarys Boat Harbour is a thirty-minute drive north of Perth, and is often packed out for one simple reason: locals always know the best places to go.

Queenstown, New Zealand

The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that Australians made a record 7.8 million short-stay trips overseas last year.

Manhattan, New York by tour bus

Karen Moline and her son review their home town of New York on the top of a bus – and think about a hot chocolate Thermos.

London Zoo for Children

Betselling novelist Faith Bleasdale takes a picnic, a friend, some small children and a lifelong fear of spiders to the legendary London Zoo.

Celebrity Surf Lessons in Sydney

Layne Beachley is a glamorous surfing world champion, a charity star,  a rock-star wife (married to Kirk Pengilly from INXS) and she’s even turned up in a few movies.  

Victoria: Victorian High Country

The Victorian High Country was first put on the map when it became the hideout for Australia’s most notorious bushranger Ned Kelly – who had his own reason for appreciating the region’s vast untamed wilderness.

Melbourne’s Other Art Scene

Melbourne, Australia has a world-famous art gallery (with Henry Moore and Augustus John in the collection) but an even better-known street art scene.