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HOT: Montrachet, 244 Given Tce, Paddington
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 3 December 2009
Blink and you’ll miss it. Montrachet is a modest little restaurant just up the hill from the Paddo Tavern. It’s tucked behind some dark roller blinds on the sidewalk and not particularly well signed. Who cares? This exquisitely French establishment was not put on this earth to attract the passing traffic – it’s a destination [...]
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HOT: Marche Rouge Christmas Shopping Event, Salon 205, Level 2, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 3 December 2009
With Christmas only 22 days away, Melbourne is ramping up to a frenetic hive of shopping activity. With sales and markets sprouting up almost daily, it’s getting difficult for me to keep up! One of the most aesthetically pleasing shopping experiences that I’ve attended recently has been Marche Rouge, a small pop-up market in the Nicholas [...]
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Australia & New Zealand Round-up and Budget
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 2 December 2009
I have some mixed feelings on the 28 days I spent in Australia & New Zealand. I might as well start with the positives. First off, it was really nice to catch up with quite a few friends I hadn’t seen since they left the UK – Chris in Auckland, Matt in Melbourne, Gen in Perth, [...]
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HOT: Cutler & Co, 55-57 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 2 December 2009
Cutler & Co is the most hyped restaurant in Melbourne. I take great pleasure in pricking the hype-bubble in HOT OR NOT, so while I was excited to finally score a booking on a Saturday night, my guard was up. Did it really deserve the superlatives thrown at it by Melbourne’s restaurant reviewers and food bloggers? The [...]
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Sculpture by the Sea
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 1 December 2009
I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Sydney before, so there wasn’t a lot I wanted to see that I hadn’t already. But there was one thing that stood out that I wanted to give a go – the annual sculpture by the sea exhibition. It’s a huge selection of public sculpture, much of [...]
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NOT: Fifth Element Bar and Cellar, 1b/188 Grey St, South Brisbane
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 1 December 2009
I’ve bragged before about the beauty of my expense account, but whether it’s my money or someone else’s, I know when I’m getting ripped off. Fifth Element brings an air of arrogance to Southbank (not that it’s too out of place) and it’s wound to 11, as are the prices. I’d wanted to sample the cocktails [...]
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HOT: Cumulus Inc, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 1 December 2009
In New York City, Dulcinea offers ‘a wholesome indulgence’ every Wednesday by subscription, whether that be jumbo rhubarb muffins, a blueberry lemon pound cake, or a half dozen strawberry scones. Similarly, Le Dolci is London’s first weekly cake club where subscribers can receive a bundle of home-baked goodness such as biscotti, scones, brownies, pies and [...]
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Three days in the Red Centre: Kata-Tjuta & Kings Canyon
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 30 November 2009
Uluru is the one that gets all the worldwide fame and attention, but even from the plane coming into the area, I could see that Kata Tjuta looked like it could be equally impressive. Whereas Uluru is a giant monolith, Kata Tjuta is a series of huge dome-shaped rocks that were formed around the same [...]
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HOT: Goshen, 189 Smith St, Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 30 November 2009
I heart heart heart heart Goshen. Authentic hot and spicy Korean food, lovely presentation, a calming interior of dark wood and delicate stencils on green-tea walls and super-friendly smiley staff. It’s easily my favourite cheap eat in Melbourne and the sole (Seoul – guffaw) reason I want to visit Korea. I could just leave the review [...]
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HOT: Top Sushi, alleyway Queen and Adelaide St adjoining NAB and HSBC buildings
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 30 November 2009
From burgers to sushi - another post from guest blogger Matman this week. Brisbane CBD workers have got the taste for sushi and they are not afraid to line up for it. Like most things in Brisbane – pubs, clubs, restaurants – newness is an oversubscribed commodity. However, sushi in Brisbane is by no means a new [...]
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Eurobeat The Musical – makes fun of The Eurovision Song Contest!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 29 November 2009
Eurobeat The Musical is a new play which basically takes the piss out of The Eurovision Song Contest. That sounds like an oxymoron to me, because the Eurovision Song Contest does a great job of being silly all by itself! However, making fun of the Eurovision Song Contest can be done! The contest has been around since the [...]Eurobeat The Musical – makes fun of The Eurovision Song Contest! is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Weird
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The backpacker’s secrets for travelling Australia on a shoestring
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 29 November 2009
Is there such a thing as travelling for free around Australia? As full time travellers we soon start to learn some tricks of the trade on how to travel Australia on a shoestring and in some cases even for free, some shared by fellow backpackers others learn on our own experience. So how do we travel with less than $40 each a day?
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Daily Travel Photo – Hobart, Tasmania
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 29 November 2009
View all of my travel photos online. Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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HOT: The Pantry, 1 Church St, Brighton
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 29 November 2009
Heading to the beachside suburbs of Melbourne is now a day-trip for my northside self. But not only is it geographically distant, it’s almost a foreign land compared to my local hood (which centers around the Un-Safeway of Smith Street). This is a land where fake boobs bob perkily above skinny soy decaf lattes, where [...]
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Three days in the Red Centre: Uluru
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 29 November 2009
“Why would you want to go all that way just to look at a rock granny?” is apparently what the granddaughter of a Scottish woman I met on the way to Uluru said to her before she left home. I must admit I was worrying the same thing. After all, it’s a very long flight from [...]
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HOT: Markets in the Garden, Royal Botanical Gardens, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 28 November 2009
The Garden Markets is a small market held over summer which is held near the Observatory of the Royal Botanical Gardens. The grassy spot is lovely for a stroll amongst the 100 or so stallholders, none of whom I’d seen before (and I go to a lot of markets). The products ranged from jewellery, fashion, [...]
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Look Upon This Picture, And On This...
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 November 2009
When is a famous historic building not a famous historic building? When it's a scale model, of course.In last week's Canberra post I talked about our visit to Cockington Green Gardens, a tourist attraction filled with miniature replicas of English village settings. However, it also has an international section.
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Welcome to the Wheeler Centre
Blog: Hackpacker - 26 November 2009
A little while ago I wrote about being inside the mouthful that is the Centre for Books Writing & Ideas.
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NOT: Authentic Thai Taste, 92-94 Johnston St, Collingwood
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 26 November 2009
Authentic Thai Taste is renowned for being one of the best Thai restaurants in Melbourne – the full house of Thai people on a weeknight is evidence of that. So where did we go wrong? We’ve had two attempts at weekday takeway from Authentic Thai Taste now and neither of the experiences have really encouraged me [...]
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HOT: Auction Rooms, 103-107 Errol St, North Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 25 November 2009
Auction Rooms is a casual cafe/restaurant set inside the old WB Ellis auction house in North Melbourne. In fact, the long wooden floorboards, exposed beams, distressed brickwork and high ceilings hoisting a series of whirring fans reminded me a lot of the interior of an airy Queenslander home. It seems like the kind of place [...]
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Colourful Rainbow Beach
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 24 November 2009
Instead of the safari tour on Fraser Island we opted for a refreshing stay away from the backpackers’ crowd in the pristine natural setting of the Inskip Peninsula at the far end of gorgeous Rainbow beach.
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How can they afford this? Remittances, really. (Part 2 of 3 of the Remittance Series)
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 24 November 2009
By Agnes Chu In 2007, out of all the countries in the world, Samoa received the 7th highest amount of remittances as a percentage of GDP (22.8%). The following is a look at remittances in Samoa, part two of a three part series on remittances in developing countries. Part one, which is Rob’s excellent post [...]
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HOT: Tony Wheeler, The Hive, Collins Quarter, Collins St, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 24 November 2009
The Hive closed off 2009 with a bang as Tony Wheeler addressed over 200 eager listeners with the story of his journey and his passions as one of the founders of Lonely Planet. In fact, interest was so huge that the event had to be moved to bigger premises at Collins Quarter. Tony was a self-effacing, [...]
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HOT: Pintxo Spanish Taperia, 561 Brunswick St, New Farm
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 24 November 2009
Pintxo (pronounced Pincho) Spanish Taperia in New Farm combines an old concept (thanks to our Japanese friends at Sushi Train) with a new style of Spanish cuisine. The net result is a cool new gastronomical experience that takes me back to balmy, boozy nights on La Rambla in Barcelona. I had to consult Google to understand [...]
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HOT: Sprout Cafe, 111 Haig Rd, Auchenflower
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 23 November 2009
Sprout is a little restaurant in Auchenflower, not far from the Rosalie shops, which has a reputation for innovative, excellent food. On our visit we certainly weren’t disappointed. I had the confit duck leg with white bean and porcini puree, red cabbage marmalade and duck neck and pistachio sausage. Sounds good, right? It was divine. My [...]
