The heavy and dim timber threshold at the MGallery Harbour Rocks Hotel obscures a cosy and stylish snug with relaxed lounge chairs and a wall of cultured reading matter where one could waste hours. It seemed the perfect place to retreat for the day from the dark and stormy skies … [Read more...]
Spirit House Restaurant, Yandina: Review
Overlooking the jade lagoon we sat peacefully listening to the canopy of bamboo leaves gently rustling in the breeze. Hypnotic gamelan music was softly pealing throughout the pavilion and there was an exotic scent of burning incense hanging in the air. Buddhist effigies were … [Read more...]
Drink: Pass the Dom please!
"Bourbon’s the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Grape vineyards, huge barrels ageing forever, poor little old monks running around testing it just so some woman in Tulsa … [Read more...]
Four Days on the Amalfi Coast, Italy
As a teenager I lived in a 1980s former display home in Brisbane. We were middle class. Most nights we ate meat and three veg. We watched Channel Nine a lot. I went to a state school. I played netball on Saturdays. Our annual family holidays were lengthy road trips during the … [Read more...]
Seoul Food: Six Korean Foods You Must Try
A few months ago, while planning a trip to Seoul, I put out a Facebook call to my Get Forked and Fly followers asking for recommendations about Korean foods to eat while I was there. As a foodie, I humbly admitted that Kimchi was as far as my Korean culinary knowledge extended. … [Read more...]
