All Aboard For A Fine Dining Experience
Working in a kitchen that is just over a metre wide must present challenges but the crew on board Canada’s iconic Rocky Mountaineer train handle it with aplomb.
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The 100 Mile Diet: Going Local In Vancouver
Vancouver lays claim to being the spiritual home of the ‘100 Mile Diet’, the concept of eating only foods grown within a 100-mile radius. If you were to fully embrace the idea, there could be worse places to do so than this attractive Canadian city, blessed as it is with its proximity to the sea, the mountains and fertile farmland.
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Austrian Wine
Austrian Wines Boost Australian Profile: While the food-friendly Grüner Veltliner accounts for a third of Austria’s production, its seductive reds, Blaufränkisch, Zweigelt and the…
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Western Australian Wine: West-Side Pride
A warm, dry vintage in Western Australia promises that some excellent 2011 wines will be making their way onto bottleshop shelves.
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Sinners, Saints & Settlers
Sinners, Saints & Settlers. A Journey through Irish Australia. By Richard Reid & Brendon Kelson. Published by National Museum of Australia Press, $39.95. At the…
Read MoreScrewcaps: Turn of the Screw
The aluminium screw cap is here to stay but some winemakers have resisted the temptation to go to screw caps.
Read MoreIt’s Culture With A Capital C
Published in The Sun-Herald Travel section, January 24, 2010. For world-class art, food and more, head to Australia’s political hub, writes Christine Salins. Billed as…
Read MoreSapphire Coast
Published in Senior Traveller. Walking along the edge of picturesque Bunga lagoon on the NSW Sapphire Coast, Sue Swensson stops to pick up a fossil…
Read MoreGoing Dutch
Published in TradeSmart, issue 3. From one extreme to the other, both a city of eccentrics and a city of culture, Amsterdam is a vibrant,…
Read MoreFiji
Published in Endless Vacation. “It had a magnificent appearance with its immense sail of white mats; the pennants streaming from its yard denoted it at…
Read MoreCradle Mountain Lodge
Published in George magazine. Wombats might look like fat, sleepy creatures that travel at a slow plod, but they can turn on the power when they…
Read MoreCanberra Dining
Published in Virgin Blue’s Voyeur magazine. When politicians, business people, lobbyists and journalists get together, the networking – or whatever tag you might like to put…
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The Grange Custodian: Peter Gago
The Grange Custodian, article on Peter Gago & Penfolds Grange, Hospitality magazine, September 2009.
Read MoreAfternoon Tea
Published in Australian Traveller. While the British might not be renowned for their cuisine, there’s one culinary tradition they can take credit for: afternoon tea….
Read MoreCanberra For Kids
Published in Holidays with Kids. Feeding a tiger, minting a $1 coin, dressing up in wartime costumes and looking at a 3.8 billion year old…
Read MoreCanberra Pops Its Cork On Best Wines
Published in The Canberra Times Food & Wine section, February 18, 2009. Tim Kirk’s Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier has achieved legendary status in Australian winemaking…
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Paradise With Gustave And The Gang
Enya’s chorus of Sail Away is being piped through the sound system as I nestle into an ultra-modern plastic contoured chaise lounge on the deck of the Haumana, a small, friendly ship that I have taken a liking to immediately. Storm clouds are brewing and the moon creates a silhouette of the motu (islet) in French Polynesia where we are scheduled to have dinner.
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John Marshall: Frugii icecream
Icecream maker John Marshall likes playing around with flavours, so much so that he set up his own chemistry lab to create his own…
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Rhine River Dreaming
What was my favourite port of call in eight days of cruising the Rhine from Amsterdam to Basel? That’s a hard one. Each time I was won over by a place, there was another charming town or village just up the river to compete for my affections.
Read MoreChristchurch – A Fine Affair
Published in Accor Traveller, issue 31. It’s renowned as the city of gardens but Christchurch, on New Zealand’s south island, could equally claim to be…
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