Tag Archives: Australia Who could resist? A hatted restaurant set in a vineyard with its own sculpture park! Mornington Peninsula, just an hour south of Central Melbourne in Australia, is a sensory feast. Although the whole government area is technically part of Metropolitan Melbourne, with its charming coastal villages and spectacularly wild coastline, and with its boutique farms […]  We are very lucky here on the Far South Coast of New South Wales in Australia’s east. It is called the Sapphire Coast for the intense blue of the waters and sky against the iron-oxide red of the coastal cliffs and gold of the sandy beaches. Sitting on the windward side Great Dividing Range, the […]  Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula is the very best of boutique backyards! Part of Metropolitan Melbourne, this magical peninsula just over an hour south of the city centre is home to history (see: Point Nepean National Park), wild places, cool-climate vineyards, and countless farm-to-table restaurants. Last winter I managed to squeeze a visit to the region between Covid-19 […]  In some parts of the Tropics, they call it Rainy Season. In the northern reaches of Australia, it is simply The Wet. On a daily basis, the skies open, and it doesn’t rain, so much, as pour. I first experienced this when visiting my son in Darwin, NT, many years ago: mid afternoon, it was […]  They say that if you have too many lemons: make lemonade. So, it follows that if you have too much sugar by-product, you should make rum. That’s what happened in Bundaberg, a small city in coastal Queensland. Originally reliant on timber and maize, from the 1870s, sugar cane became the mainstay. With its humid subtropical climate […] |
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