The moment we stepped out of Denpasar Airport yesterday afternoon I was immediately grateful for recent spate of hot, humid weather back home. Except for an air-conditioned six-hour flight, we were pretty much ready for the wall of thick, heavy air with which our bodies were slammed. And as the hotel driver ducked and weaved… Continue Reading
Sponsored by Hilton HHonors Mr SY works smack bang in the centre of Brisbane city. Surrounded by innumerable shops, restaurants and bars. Most Friday nights as he walks past those aforementioned shops, restaurants and bars on his way to the train station to hot foot it back up the highway to home, he laments not being able… Continue Reading
Sponsored by lastminute.com.au As I stepped into the lift, the music switched from upbeat dance music to Elvis crooning … Are You Lonesome Tonight? I wanted to stamp my feet. No I’m NOT lonesome. I wanted to protest that I was actually on my way out. To dinner. With a girlfriend. Thank-you very much. Being… Continue Reading
It had been too long between visits. Four years too long to be precise. North Stradbroke Island, just a 40-minute barge ride across Moreton Bay from Brisbane, is one of those places the effect of even a single visit can stake a claim on your heart forever. It’s also one of those places that I… Continue Reading
Sponsored by Hooroo Let’s play a little game, shall we? I’m going to share with you some photos from one of my favourite places here on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, where I live. It’s kind of my Secret Spot. Except that it’s not a very well kept secret. It’s a secret spot shared and… Continue Reading
Sponsored post I am sad. It is October and I can no longer say I was in the US “last month”. But humour me please as I continue to reminisce and generally cast a gorgeous, bubbly glow over the whole trip. I haven’t much talked about the LA part, have I? It was a bit… Continue Reading
Sponsored post About time eight years ago I woke up each day to the sun rising over the waters of the Gulf of Thailand. I’d give the sun a cursory glance, snap a photo and roll over again in my gazillion-thread-count white sheets. The sun, the water? It could wait. I was on my HONEYMOON… Continue Reading
There once was a little girl. Her name was Nicole and she was a child of the ’70s in regional Australia. She grew up on a diet of bike riding, Vegemite on white bread sandwiches and two channels on a black and white TV. Her grandparents travelled the world and so it would come to pass that… Continue Reading
As we were checking out of our hotel, we met a couple travelling to New York from Australia. They were in the city for 10 days and the husband wished they’d only booked seven. They’d run out of things to do. WTF. How is that even possible? As for us, we barely scratched the surface… Continue Reading
You’re familiar with the term “happy ending” are you not? Well, I’m here today to tell you a little story about a different happy ending. And ending that indeed made us very happy but not in a “I just had a special massage” kind of way. And that happy ending for us was the moment… Continue Reading
Last night was one of those mushy, romantic moments that will stick with me forever. It was up there with the cliff-side dinner we had on Santorini 10 years ago. It was up there with sitting beachside eating Thai during our honeymoon on Koh Samui. Mr Styling You and I had a date night. In.… Continue Reading
