the Great alpine Road at Conner’s Lookout Omeo, with its grand goldrush-inspired buildings, is the idyllic mining town setting for the recent Australian film Patrick Hughes’ Red Hill. Not surprising. It’s a gem of a place and much of Omeo’s quaint 19th century hilly streetscape is an architectural timepiece, a legacy from when the town [...]
I was whisked away from the Darwin railway station in a shiny, red Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter. And I felt very star-like as the helicopter swooped over Darwin’s exciting new Wharf precinct, and the wreckage of the historic bombed wharf, so dramatically portrayed in “Australia’’. Old jetty pylons jut this way and that out [...]
Sometimes it takes someone from overseas to come to the state to confirm what we have always known that South Australia really is the best tourist destination in Australia.. Last weekend renowned tourism identities Rodney Twiss and his wife Regina and Alan and Diane Colton hosted tourism VIP Angelika Wegner, who represents our state’s tourism [...]
They are the last three days of a dismal summer and we are in Melbourne living a lesson in style at the zany boutique hotel, The Cullen. It is one of the new Art Series hotels, strategically placed on Commercial Road, Prahran, opposite the famous market and a block from fashionable Chapel Street. However, the [...]
People flock to Kangaroo Island to see the wildlife and landscape, but it only when you stop to meet the locals, that their stories reveal its human face and how 10 per cent of the population are artisans. We come each year to the island to watch birds and sunsets, try local wines, eat marron [...]
The words of that quintessential song about Paris spring to mind and I hum “I love Paris in the fall….when it drizzles’’ which is the weather as I slip inside Sunday morning mass at imposing, historic l’Eglise, St Augustin’s Catholic Church. It is an awesome structure dominating Place St Augustin at the terminus of [...]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
actress Bette Midler
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