No time for a stretch in hop across the Tasman
THE weekend before this trip it took four hours for me to fly direct from Sydney to Darwin, and now this trans-Tasman flight is but 2 1/2 hours.
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Cheetahs and cocktails
AT Carnivore, near Nairobi, the waiters brand swords on which are skewered ostrich, camel, crocodile and the unappetising prospect of “ox balls”.
Moved by the Spirit
ITALIAN hospitality and flair rule on the newest Silversea liner.
Lady Penelope flies home flat out
THE business-class seating pods on Emirates feel like mini entertainment arcades or, perhaps more appropriately, tiny cockpits.
Nairobi confidential
THE sense of bush adventure comes early: there are zebras behind the fences at the airport and my mobile phone’s global roaming pops up as Safaricom.
Bali idle
IT is as if Singapore’s Raffles Hotel has been shrunk and shifted – lock, stock and parlour palms – to a laneway in fashionable Seminyak.
Sock it to me, India
DEPARTURE Lounge wrote recently of chance encounters on the roads she’s travelled and reader responses have been encouraging.
A nautical but nice makeover
SYDNEY’S Sebel Pier One has revamped its guestrooms in beach-shack style.
Floating with frangipanis
CHILLED to perfection at a leafy resort in Bali.
In the swim of things at Hepburn Springs
ALL around, contented bathers are smiling like Cheshire cats as pesky aches and knotted muscles are gently soothed.
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