Love wins and the best time of the year

Perfect pink peony season - Mr & Mrs Romance

Things are a little different today as our weekly update is by Mrs Romance! We celebrate the Yes vote – a step towards marriage equality – and our first Christmas party of the season. The key to working well with your partner is to play to your strengths. That’s why you hear more from Jim … Read more

A crafty beer festival, a Champagne treat and Cheapflights inaugural travel awards

What an exciting week it’s been! With an amazing Aussie craft beer festival, a lovely drop of Champagne and a travel awards night, we’ve had plenty to do. As a result, we’ve got plenty to talk about too, so here goes! Hope you enjoy this IG Edition Jim & Christina xx Mrs Romance loves exploring … Read more

Bondi, Balmain, Balmoral and a wall of cats

We’ve stayed Sydneyside this week and explored more of our back yard. There’s so much going on in Sydney at the moment – surely this means the end of winter? We’ve had some strange kind of false starts recently all over the world. My mum and dad in the UK are preparing for a mini … Read more

A city sleep-over and a day in the country

It’s definitely springtime here in Sydney. The city’s really opening up, people are getting out and about more and things are starting to happen. The Noodle Markets, Oktoberfest, wine festivals… it’s a great time to be in and around Sydney. This week we’re out and about too with a stay-cation in the city – we … Read more

All-out Italy: Festival of Nonna, an Italian hotel review and the Italian Film Fest 2017

We’re pretty darn happy this week – it’s been an all-out Italian fest. And you know how much we love all things Italy. In this week’s IG Edition, we have a test drive of the menu for Festival of Nonna – a celebration in Sydney and Melbourne of meals the way Nonna makes them. Also … Read more

An anniversary, summer rosés and Mrs R’s first Priceline public appearance

If you’ve been reading us for a while and you get our weekly emails I send out, you’ll probably already know it was our anniversary recently. We tend to go a little bit crazy around this time of year – maybe because this is around the time we first met, which was a pretty crazy time … Read more

Watsons Bay, Hayman’s gin supper & My Favorite Murder Sydney

What a wild and wonderful week it’s been. We’ve got all sorts this IG Edition: sunny walks along the Sydney coast, gin-filled evenings with 5th-generation distillers, visitors from interstate, murder fanatics, cigars, bars and pizzas! I love weeks like these; when you never really know what’s coming up next. We hope this IG Ed keeps … Read more

Biccies, wigs and a Four Seasons ballroom blitz

Since we came back from Italy last month, I’ve been longing for taralli. Taralli are little hoop-shaped biscuits that are originally from Puglia in southeastern Italy, where we just were. Last week I decided I’d have a crack at making them. The results were… interesting. We’ve got the details below. Plus, our friend Sean McGrath … Read more

Brand Confetti, a new fave hotel and Melbourne dishes up all the food!

We’re interstate in this week’s IG Edition: we’ve spent the last few days in Melbourne! Home of the Australian café scene, trams and Aussie Rules Football, Melbourne also plays host to a new creative business workshop our friends Emma Kate and Sonia are running called Brand Confetti. Sandwiched between learning some great new skills to … Read more