I went to Vienna…and this is what I saw
I went to Vienna for three-and-a-half days and this is what I saw: a beautiful new boutique hotel (where I stayed); two construction sites (yes, hard hat…
I went to Vienna for three-and-a-half days and this is what I saw: a beautiful new boutique hotel (where I stayed); two construction sites (yes, hard hat…
After four days in Vienna, I was yet to taste a decent schnitzel. There was one, in a tavern in the 19th district, but it was…
Would any visit to Vienna be complete without a night at the opera? I think not. So, off we go…and luckily it’s an easy one to…
The outside of Vienna’s new Hotel Topazz is designed to look like a huge cylindrical silver vase, studded with large oval stones. From the inside, the…
Looking up in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Everywhere you look is something wonderful. But for the truly surreal, take an after-hours tour at night, where your…
Lunch at Hollmann Salon, a designer restaurant in a quiet cobble-stoned courtyard in Vienna’s 1st district, couldn’t go past today without a glass of bubbles. It…
Nothing quite makes travelling long distances easier than a lie-flat bed/seat. And occasionally, I am lucky enough to be given an upgrade (or as the check-in staff…
It’s Queensland Week, a week when my adopted home state celebrates its separation from Australia’s first state, New South Wales, on 6 June 1859. To celebrate, the state’s…
While the world is oohing and aahing over that little black speck called Venus moving across the Sun, I’m just revelling in the once-in-a-lifetime chance to…