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“Moveable feast” – The Weekend Australian Magazine

The art of glamping lies in capturing the essence of roughing it without actually doing so. My tepee-style bell tent at Bendigo’s Balgownie Estate...

Where Hollywood meets holiday house – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury

If only there was a button to pause this sunrise - like there is to open the blinds - so I could stay in...

“In Safe Hands” – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury

The mist rolls in over the Southern Ocean and rises to meet the forested hills of Victoria’s Otway Ranges, drowning the canopies of mighty...

Cider House Rules – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury

Photo credit: Nat Mendham So your dinner party is humming, the mains have just hit the table and you nip to the cellar to retrieve...

Australia’s Great Migrations – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury

HUMPBACK WHALES Queensland Each winter about 50,000 humpback whales make the journey north from Antarctica to breed in the tropics of Queensland and Western Australia, in...

“After the gold rush” – The Weekend Australian Magazine

Photo credit: Visit Victoria It’s the middle of a balmy night in Ballarat and I’m stirred from sleep by the most unlikely of sounds outside...

“The Snowies without snow” – The Australian newspaper T&I

You don’t have to be a thrill seeker, or even going particularly fast, to experience the exhilaration of a downhill mountain-bike run at Thredbo,...

Hedonistic hiking on Mount Buffalo – The Australian newspaper T&I

Photo credit: Ricky French Stone steps lead up through marble-trunked snow gums and mountain pepper trees. Frogs croak and a thousand insects flitter above the...