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Barry Divola

Barry Divola

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Barry Divola is a journalist and author who specialises in music, popular culture, the arts, podcasts and travel.Connect via email.

The crowning glory… The Highlight Room rooftop bar.

If you want a good-value, perfect base for exploring Manhattan, this is it

“This is Where the Magic Happens” reads the pink neon sign near The Moxy Lower East Side Hotel reception desk. Ain’t that the truth.

  • Barry Divola
Room with a quintessential NYC  view at Tempo By Hilton New York Times Square.

Hilton’s giant new New York hotel is perfect for first-time visitors

The first property from Hilton’s new brand Tempo is a 661-room behemoth that towers over Times Square.

  • Barry Divola
This is one of Tokyo’s most popular tourist attractions.

‘I was almost brought to tears’: Navigating Tokyo’s hugely popular tourist attraction

Part museum, part art installation and part amusement park – as one of Tokyo’s most popular attractions, it pays to know before you go to teamLab Planets.

  • Barry Divola
Shimokitazawa is Tokyo’s coolest neighbourhood, and the seventh coolest in the world (according to Time Out).

This Tokyo neighbourhood is one of the coolest places you’ll ever visit

With its vintage clothing stores, record shops, hip bars and flea markets, could Shimokitazawa be the coolest neighbourhood in Tokyo? 

  • Barry Divola
Just open in June, this is a world-first flagship for the iconic US guitar brand.

Six of the most impressive must-visit shops in Tokyo

From clothing to stationery to guitars: if Tokyo is shopping heaven, then these to-die-for flagship stores are nirvana.

  • Barry Divola
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Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, a  square in the Rione Monti (Monti district).

Beyond the historic centre: Six other parts of Rome you must visit

There are so many vibrant neighbourhoods outside of Rome’s well-trodden Centro Storico. But where do you go to find them?

  • Barry Divola
In Italy it’s one-size-fits all, dependent on the style of coffee you’re ordering.

Don’t order a latte: The rules of drinking coffee in Italy

When it comes to coffee, the Italians do things in a particular way, so know before you go and drink with confidence.

  • Barry Divola
The view from the 102nd floor Observatory.

Queue no more: New York's Empire State Building gets a revamp

There are high expectations of a revamp of New York City's favourite tourist destination.

  • Barry Divola
You take the Greyhound buses if you are poor, mentally ill, on the run from the law or just out of jail. Or if you are an Australian on a budget with romantic Kerouac-ian notions of discovering America.

Keeping a journal while travelling: A chance to travel through time

Barry Divola discovers his travel journal from 1991, when he travelled solo around the US for 10 weeks and fell in love with an entire country.

  • Barry Divola
Kyle de Vre's portrait of musician Fiona Silver and tiny pal, Winston, at Sophie's bar, New York.

New York, USA: Celebrity-endorsed Sophie's is one of New York's best dive bars

Many a celebrity has been smitten by this authentic old-style watering hole.

  • Barry Divola

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