Story by Karen Walker
Photos by Mikhail Gherman
There’s a lot that’s great about Sydney but my favourite Sydney experience is Watsons Bay. Tourists often visit Watsons Bay for the legendary Doyles Seafood Restaurant but if you’re in Sydney anytime in the warm months (from October to April) there’s a lot more to this neighbourhood than a [...]

The Rarotongan aesthetic is all about symmetry and colour. In fact their use of colour was so unusual I found myself in the local paint shop asking for a paint chart. As it turns out the most popular colour this year is Taubmans ‘French Mauve.’ This aesthetic combined with the simplicity of [...]

Tokyo, Japan
Feature courtesy of Paperplane Magazine
Words Wildred Brandt, Photos Chris Searl
The city of Tokyo is home to 12 million people, but the population of greater Tokyo is 30 million. That means, not only are Tokyo’s streets themselves packed with residents, but every weekday, the city actually swells to nearly three times its size, only [...]

Commendably, Bekonscot, one of the world’s earliest and most loved model villages, has not tried to embrace modern times. Although additions are made to the village all the time, all are set in aspic, as if it were still Jolly Olde England in the 1930s. Back then, the young Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret loved [...]

Article by Karen Walker
Photos by Mikhail Gherman

When you’re in Barcelona, get into the Spanish routine of getting up early, having a siesta between one and four in the afternoon (when everything’s closed anyway), eating dinner around ten or eleven and getting to bed by one in the morning. If you don’t fit into this routine, [...]

I love a museum-in-a-home when it feels as if the original occupants have just left. In the case of The Van Loon house in the centre of Amsterdam, in fact, they haven’t. The descendants of the family still occupy the traditional back house behind the grand stone edifice. In 1602 Willem van Loon co-founded [...]

Here are some pictures of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, totally mindblowingly beautiful.

Museum of Applied Arts IX. Üllői út 33-37, 1450 Budapest, Pf.3. + 456-5100;
http://www.imm.hu/

Story by Karen Walker
Photos by Mikhail Gherman
Three Prague Must Do’s
St Nicholas’ Church, Old Town
Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of Baroque architecture in the world yet you can almost walk past St Nicholas’s Church. It’s once you get in that the magic happens. There are frescoes, marble, gold and statues that [...]

Five Things I Love…
Paris
Courtesy Paperplane Magazine
Words Linlee Allen
By the time Sarah (aka creative director/head buyer of the 9-year old famed shopping mecca colette) reads this she’s going to be pissed. She’s not one for “spotlight” interviews you see and never agrees to even having her photo taken. Anyway, we’ll deal with that when this story [...]

What I love about Hong Kong Island is the contrast of textures you cannot only see, but also smell and hear. Mirrored high rises tower over weathered concrete apartment blocks. Alleyways connecting shopping streets are often home to corrugated iron lean-to’s vending anything from fresh produce to electrical goods. Smells can switch from the carefully [...]