Tie me kangaroo down sport! What’s that in the window of the world’s newest Louis Vuitton on Sydney’s George Street?
Streuth! It’s a great big kangaroo. And in the other huge picture window there’s a big old Aussie crocodile.
Time was when many Australians were embarrassed about their unique flora and fauna. (For the life of me, [...]

Photo Courtesy of Dive Hotel

There’s a lot to love about Dive. It’s an intimate, boutique hotel, well put together and with a perfect location just across the road from one of the best city beaches you’ll find anywhere in the world. If you’ve chosen to be this close to the water it’s a shame [...]

Photo Courtesy of emptywrapper.com
Bills in Sydney’s Darlinghurst is a Sydney favourite. In a city with more great cafes than any other I’ve been to, some of the best food and certainly the best coffee, it’s not so easy to stand out but Bills does. Opened in 1993, and now with several other branches dotted [...]

Photo of Donna Hay’s General Store by Anthony Whittle
Good news from Sydney for those wanting to feel cherished from tip to toe and then add a cup cake! How’s this for the perfect combo; complete beauty treatment, then a hop and a skip round the corner to Donna Hay’s lovely store?
POLISHED
Polished is the place all [...]

The Book Kitchen was just one of a long list of recommendations I was given recently when I traveled to Sydney for Australian Fashion Week, and it turned out to be a real gem.

It’s a cute little spot, just across the road from The Bourke Street Bakery. Bourke Street and Crown Street in Surry [...]

Across the road from The Book Kitchen sits The Bourke Street Bakery. Nestled in the ground floor of a corner site, the service area is only about 4sq metres, and glass cabinets bursting with freshly-baked treats seem to surround you.

Top picks are the strawberry & vanilla creme brulee tarts, the iced coffee, an array [...]

The Best Christmas Window this year goes to my favourite vintage furniture store in Sydney, Ken Neale’s Twentieth Century Modern. There’s not a snippet of tinsel in site.
Twentieth Century Modern, Unit 3, 138 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. +61 2 9331 2033

A few days in Sydney and one excellent Olympic window seen.

Clovelly is a sweet suburb a couple of beaches south of Bondi, and north of Coogee. There is a small village about 7min walk up the hill from the beach, that is home to Clodeli, a delicious cafe and deli that serves great corn cakes with tomato salsa and wasabi.
The village also has a great [...]

Whilst staying in Paddington a few months ago, I met Mrs. Rutonski on her way to see the Sydney Swans play at the nearby SCG. I was impressed by her matching jacket, hat, scarf and backpack in Swans’ colours, topped off with an Adam Schneider badge, and she was kind enough to let me take [...]