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The Sunday Six: Melbourne Bars
Posted on February 20, 2011 | 7 CommentsBiero Like beer? Then you’ll love Biero, which offers several hundred of the world’s finest brews, from the eye-wateringly expensive high-alcohol triple bocks through to local craft brews at $5...
The Sunday Six: Sydney Bars
Posted on February 6, 2011 | 3 Comments1: Shady Pines Saloon A New York hipster bar with an Aussie sense of humour. Country and Western plays, skulls adorn the bar, a fine selection of whiskies, beers and...
Going Nuclear in the Outback
Posted on January 18, 2011 | 14 CommentsThe Outback majors on crazy towns. Tiny communities, stranded in an inland sea of sand and scrub, hundreds of miles from anywhere. Yet even after the Martian landscape of Coober...
10 Things to Know before Driving Outback Australia
Posted on January 12, 2011 | 15 Comments1: Farmers Don’t Like Pulling Your Camper Out of Their Road Outback Australia is a great place to drive a 4WD. If you know how to do it. When a...
The Craziest Town on the Planet?
Posted on January 7, 2011 | 37 CommentsArriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars in many a movie and...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Australia
Posted on December 26, 2010 | 57 CommentsTHINGS I LOVE ABOUT AUSTRALIA 1: The Landscapes After Namibia and Mongolia, Australia is the third least densely populated country in the world. And given almost everyone lives in cities...
Solo in Sydney* or: Getting My Groove Back
Posted on December 17, 2010 | 23 CommentsIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a pulse will not be in want of attention in a cocktail bar. I have no idea...
The Barmy Army Explain the Rules of Cricket
Posted on December 6, 2010 | 8 CommentsToday in Adelaide saw the fifth and final day of the second English-Australian Test cricket match, to the outsider one of the most bewildering sporting events on the planet, after...
Seeing Stars in the Outback
Posted on December 4, 2010 | 1 CommentWeather doesn’t get more biblical than droughts, floods and plagues of locusts. And that precise trifecta has hit the South Australian outback this summer. The great salt lakes, which sit...
Oof! We’re in Australia…
Posted on December 2, 2010 | 24 CommentsLike a lot of Londoners, I’ve always taken a sort of lugubrious, self-hating pride in coming from one of the world’s most expensive cities (third in 2008, seventeenth this year)....
