Where to Stay on the NSW South Coast — Cupitt’s Estate, Ulladulla
Soak up the romance of the luxury villas on Cupitt’s Estate, a two-generation winery and brewery that crowns the coast of Ulladulla and Mollymook…
Travel Romance
Essential Guide to Kakadu National Park, Australia
Exploring Kakadu, Australia’s largest national park, is a traveller’s playground of nature on the grandest and most stunning scale, and living culture that goes…
Parma, Milan, Como… and Bury St Edmunds
For the first time in a long time, we’re travelling throughout December. And in an even longer time, we’re in the northern hemisphere for…
Wine & dine
How to Find Unfindable Wine
If you like wine and paying under market price for it, but supporting small-scale Aussie and NZ winemakers at the same time, then you’re…
Olive Oil Citrus Syrup Cake Recipe – and yes, it’s gluten-free
Every dinner party needs a centrepiece, doesn’t it? So why not make it the dessert. This delicious polenta and olive oil cake is not…
What To Drink This Christmas – liquid gifts for 2024
With so many choices in the bottleshop, finding a unique drinks gift for your favourite person is hard. We’ve put together some of the…
Life & style
Flavour of The Month — Maiden Cunard Cruises, Basil Mentions The War and Laos Impresses
True to its name, March certainly has quick-timed by leaving us feeling a little breathless if I’m honest. And looking back through all we’ve…
A South Coast Wine Stay, A Local Rum Day And A Two-Day Trav Colloquium
I’ve got to be honest, I was quite nervous about coming back to Australia. Leaving the freezing coastline of Britain in mid-January to face…
A Cambridge Steak, A Hawksbury Jet Ski And A South Coast Pig
How is it that January feels like the longest month in the world then, when it’s finally over, you look back and wonder how…
Latest stories
Of Christmas trees, new restaurants and Sydney park life
As you can see the Christmas tree has gone up! We celebrate our achievement with a pink fizz champagne cocktail – here’s recipe – and…
He Said, She Said: what’s the best present you’ve ever received?
*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…
Wine of the month – Riesling
Christmas: it’s my favourite wine season! So instead of focusing on one particular bottle or singling out an individual winery this month, we’ve decided to…
Where to eat in Provence: La Table de Pol
Let’s face it, when you go to France, you’re not expecting any bad meals, are you? In the south-west of France – in Provence –…
Where to stay in Provence, France: Lorgues
Where would you want to stay if you were heading to Provence? I had the image of either a beautiful chateau nestled in the mountains…