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8 Sep

Charlie Murtagh

We strolled the Salamanca Saturday market that wound its way around the Hobart waterfront and fell in love with some short brown dress boots....

8 Sep

Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania

Three hours north of Hobart lies a magnificent peninsula that stretches gracefully in to the Tasman Sea.  Its pink granite and feldspar hills...

5 Sep

Berlin Buddha – MONA

Berlin Buddha, Zhang Huan, 2007 This piece uses 8 tons of incense ash – collected from temples around Shanghai – packed into the...

5 Sep

Museum of Old and New Art – Tassie’s Jewel

David Walsh opened MONA in 2012 and, in the two years since, it has become the #1 tourist attraction in Tasmania.  And that is not because Tasmania...

3 Sep

A Private Visit to the Australian Museum

I started my adult life as an anthropologist focussed on Africa and nomadic peoples.  My first year offerings as a graduate student at Columbia...

1 Sep

The Botanist : Aussie Sliders at their Best

Gerard Fothergill, an English globetrotting botanist of the early 20th century, ran a small bookshop on Willoughby Street in Kirribilli, the...

31 Aug

Sydney Lifestyle

On this sunny Sunday morning we drive to a part of Sydney which is new to me.  Balmain is in the western suburbs, an area I am told that is...

30 Aug

Sydney’s Pretty Things

The day started misty with rain which made wandering in the outdoor markets less than appealing.  And so we turned towards Bondi and a shop...

29 Aug

A Day Out In Sydney

After checking in to the Park Hyatt, a wonderful four-story hotel that hugs the curve of the waterfront and offers these incredible views on...

28 Aug

Room With a View

Hello Sydney!  Nice to meet you in the rain… ..in the sun……storm… …and undecided weather.  All within the space...

23 Aug

Meditations #58

An architect builds in a particular geography and at a specific moment in history.  It may not be our geography or our history and so, to understand...

20 Aug

Los Poblanos Ranch

There are so many hidden gems around the world, and one of the great pleasures of working in the world of travel is that friends generously offer...

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