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The ski slopes are just minutes away from the Limelight hotel. CHECK-IN Aspen’s central streets run in a simple grid – roll up the Roaring Fork Valley, hit Main Street and take a right on South Monarch. When you see the rugby goal posts on one side of the road, you’ll see the Limelight Hotel … Read more
The architects behind Marriott International’s first Luxury Collection hotel in Australia have reinvented, beautifully and sensitively, a former hospital. CHECK IN History, architecture and design buffs alike will find a lot to enjoy at The Tasman, set within three adjoining buildings on Parliament Square, just a block back from Salamanca Place. The architects (fjmtstudio) and … Read more
Simple ingredients like bread, yogurt, honey, and ryzogala (rice pudding) are the best way to start the day. Photo: iStock Forget your fancy hotel breakfast rooms. Ignore the same-same international buffets with their French pastries and graying scrambled eggs. In Greece, you want to rise early, insinuate yourself into the tangled alleys of an old … Read more
Nusa Lembongan is a “divine island of untouched nature”. Photo: iStock THE EXPAT Fashion designer Desiree Deravi is the creative director and founder of S/W/F Boutique and Desiree Deravi brands. Born and bred in Elsternwick, in Melbourne’s east, she moved to Bali in 2012 and lives in the Umalas district, east of Seminyak and Canggu. … Read more
Killeavy Castle Estate has won prestigious awards including Castle Hotel of the Year. KILLEAVY CASTLE ESTATE, COUNTY ARMAGH, NORTHERN IRELAND Australian philanthropists Mick Boyle and Robyn Craig turned a small, dilapidated castle on a ramshackle estate into a successful hotel that mixes the contemporary with the historical. Inhabiting a sliver of a hiker’s paradise and … Read more
Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Photo: Getty Images Melbourne summer may officially be over, but we can still be blindsided by the 30-plus degree days (some of which may come just 24 hours after you’re wearing a jumper). It’s times like this you need a quick splash to cool things down. The city has a … Read more
Capella Hotels & Resorts is new to Australia, but has a long history of creating exceptional hotels around the world. When Sydney’s first InterContinental opened almost 40 years ago in 1985, it was somewhat of a novelty in the city’s five-star lexicon, then mostly populated with purpose-built high-rise hotels. But the InterContinental Sydney – while … Read more
Albert Namatjjra’s house is humble, dilapidated, fenced off and neglected. Photo: Alamy It’s little less than a national disgrace. Many of Australia’s most famous white painters – from Hans and Nora Heysen to Arthur Boyd, Brett Whiteley and Sidney Nolan have had their houses and/or studios canonised. But not Albert Namatjira: the first Indigenous Australian … Read more