What’s hiding under the mountain – Orvieto, Italy
Somewhere between an Indiana Jones movie and the lair of a James Bond nemesis, the Italian city of Orvieto in Umbria has secrets buried…
Travel Romance
The Long Table Lunch of Our Dreams
Food, wine, music and olive groves all set to a banquet table between the trees. It’s as European as fast driving and slow soccer,…
Revenge Travel Hit List – where are you travel dreaming?
Where do you want to go to get your revenge on travel bans? With prospects of easy travel still on a distant horizon, here’s…
Wine & dine
5 gins to mix up your old negroni
These five gins not only add something different to the classic negroni cocktail, they elevate it to new heights. Switch out your usual juniper…
The Long Table Lunch of Our Dreams
Food, wine, music and olive groves all set to a banquet table between the trees. It’s as European as fast driving and slow soccer,…
Who will win – Grange vs the Hunter? Red wine celebrity death match
What happens when you put arguably the most famous Australian wine in the ring with the best Shiraz Australia’s oldest wine region has to…
Life & style
Commence launch sequence: all-new albums, concerts, books and Aussie craft spirits
Isn’t it amazing how quickly things can change? This current lockdown that Sydney is going through now is a great example of that. As…
A bushwalk, a blood moon and Wine & Food Festival in the Hunter Valley begins
It seems that all too often we’re either too busy or too self-critical to stop for a moment and smell the roses we’ve planted….
Pub lunches, posh dinners and A Day on the Green in the Hunter Valley
With so much going on recently – compared to this time last year when nothing was really allowed to happen – we’ve got quite…
Latest stories
Where to eat in Sydney: Palings at Ivy
Sydney is well-known for its many and varied eating houses. Us lucky few who live here are spoilt, aren’t we? Well, there’s a new…
Scented candles. They smell nice, but how much should they cost?
*The most exciting thing about He Said, She Said is wondering if we’ll still be married by the end of each post! We both…
Where to stay in Perugia: Hotel Brufani Palace
The drive to Perugia from Rome really isn’t a big deal. If you’re Italian. I’m not Italian and it was an escapade that –…
Travel to Tallinn Old Town: Estonia’s answer to time travel
Imagine crossing an arched threshold of old limestone brick and being instantly shifted back to the Middle Ages. This is pretty much what happens…
The secret Prada outlet in Italy
We’re driving through an industrial estate somewhere in Tuscany and our GPS doesn’t even know where we’re going, sending us down a dirt lane…