Category: Country

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Gardenl, New York

Karen Moline discovers a splendid old New York hotel where the turtle soup was famous and the men wore moustaches. One freezing cold day a few weeks ago, my son and I were given a ride in uptown New York by a visiting friend. She turned off the FDR Drive along the East River at […]

Perth: Hillarys Boat Harbour

Hillarys Boat Harbour is a thirty-minute drive north of Perth, and is often packed out for one simple reason: it’s full of locals, who 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. New Zealand was our favourite destination. (1.1 million trips). If it’s luxury you’re after, Holiday Goddess editor Deborah Dickson-Smith thinks Queenstown is the place to head… My flight to New Zealand on Air New Zealand is an […]

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. One of the most wonderful things about New York City is that, even for long-time residents like myself, there is always something new and surprising to discover. So when […]

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. It was February when I took my three-year-old on his very first visit to London Zoo. Despite having mixed feelings about zoos, (ideally, in my opinion, all animals would stay in their […]

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. This setting was later brought to world attention with the Man From Snowy River film.