Make a Home This Christmas — top gift ideas for the festive house

Hint Magazine gift guide 2025 - House & Home Gifts

They say that a home is more than just a house – and they’re right: to make somewhere homely, you need nice things to put in that house! We’ve got just the gifts for it. Sign up to our free newsletter here for more travel inspiration. You also get your own copy of our travel … Read more

Give The Glow of Christmas With These Cosmetics Gifts

Hint Magazine gift guide 2025 - Cosmetics gifts

Tis the season to shimmer, sparkle and spoil the ones you love (and — let’s be honest — yourself). We’ve rounded up the most festive beauty and self-care treats that’ll make any Christmas morning feel a little more glamorous. Sign up to our free newsletter here for more travel inspiration. You also get your own … Read more

Raise A Glass To Christmas — liquid gifts for the one you love

Hint Magazine gift guide 2025 - Christmas drinks gifts

For those of us who enjoy a drop of the good stuff, unwrapping a bottle of something rare or interesting on Christmas Day is a delight. Here’s our selection — a wish list if you will — of top tipples for the festive holiday. Sign up to our free newsletter here for more travel inspiration. … Read more

Hint Magazine — make this Christmas memorable

Hint Magazine - Christmas gift guide and e-mag for 2025

Time to tick off your Christmas to-do list! Hint Magazine is packed with gift ideas, recipes and motivation to help with everyone’s favourite (and busiest!) time of year. Find your free edition here! Sign up to our free newsletter here for more travel inspiration. You also get your own copy of our travel ebook — … Read more

Nice Niece Visits, Big Boat Convoys and South Coast Roadtrips

Sunrise over Sydney Harbour and the city

As we close out October, Christina and I are in the thick of putting together the latest edition of Hint Magazine, our annual Christmas gift guide and e-mag (of course it’s annual; it’s all about Christmas!). But this crazily busy time of year hasn’t stopped us having a lot of fun – and taking some … Read more

Silver Anniversaries, Tiny Houses and Italian High Teas

Can you believe that three quarters of the year have already passed? Three quarters! Gone like that. Nine months. 273 days. lots of hours – even more minutes… you get the idea. This crazy passage of time is one of the reasons we started doing Flavour of the Month series (or ‘Weekly Edition’ before I … Read more

From Northern Thailand to Eastern USA to Southern Japan and Inner West Distilleries

Flavour of the Month - a taste of August 2025

Finally! The end of winter is nigh. It feels like it’s been raining since the dawn of time, but with spring on the horizon, we can start putting our slankets and oodies away for the rest of the year. But the bad weather hasn’t slowed us down much.  This August has been busy – in … Read more

Staycations and Saunas, Rum and Roadtrips, and Christmas in July

Flavour of the Month - July 2025.

Slap bang in the middle of the Sydney winter, July has certainly coughed up a cold one for us this year, hasn’t it.  Thankfully, we’ve had plenty to do to keep our minds off the chilly temperatures that somehow feel lower inside than when we’re out and about. In fact, I sometimes feel like someone … Read more

Vivid by boat, boom time for Minor Hotels and a Sydney bar’s big birthday bash

So that was June, huh? Somehow, we’ve reached the halfway point of 2025 already. And as we turn our back on the first half of the year, we also say goodbye to the shortest day too. Here in Sydney, we’re keeping our chapped fingers crossed that this means warmer weather – or at least warmer … Read more