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Elizabeth Meryment
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Put these places, hotels and restaurants on your 2025 bucketlist
Be a traveller, not a tourist and find a spot away from the madding hordes on the remote slopes of Chile, the privacy of your own island, or in Italy’s second cities.
Is this the world’s most stylish small hotel?
Hospitality insiders around the world speak of this place with deep reverence. It feels like you have arrived at the house of a wealthy relative who also happens to have the most immaculate taste.
‘It was a labour of love to create’
At 30 years old, sommelier Nina Throsby created a wine list par excellence at Perth restaurant, Gibney. How did she go about assembling a monster collection of 660 wines?
The surprising city where your European trip should begin
This is a place whose treasures reveal themselves quietly. Not flashy or overt like many big-name European destinations, it is a small gem of a city perfect to discover on foot.
The wilderness journey that should be on every Aussie’s bucket list
The place offers such a sense of pristine isolation that it is hard not to be moved by the sensory experience – the visual splendour and the briny nearness of the sea, with its masses of life.
After 30 years, this Aussie hotel has reached legend status
Like Venice’s Harry’s Bar and New York’s The Carlyle, it may well be one of those iconic places that just keep getting more famous with the years.
‘This business class fare is a steal’
This airline has boosted its flights into Europe, meaning with so many flights to a wide range of ports, you can snare excellent deals even in the high season. The seats are also incredibly comfortable.
The glorious Italian city tourists have forgotten
The flashy gilded cities of Florence, Rome and Venice, might get all the good PR but this place feels like a wealthy old aunt left to her own devices in a fabulous crumbling mansion.
An Italian beach without the crowds
One of the best parts of staying here is its thrilling location in a neighbourhood unmarred by mass tourism.
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