WE NEED TO TALK After 35-years designing your hotels we understand what you’re going through. COVID-19 has been very, very scary for hospitality but as Dr Norman Swan says ‘We will get through this!’ Here at the pointy-end of new developments we’ve been busy preparing a Pandemic Future-Proof Plan to help our colleagues transition [...]
It’s taken me 16 years to make the journey to Cuba. Not because I was attempting to walk all the way from Australia but because during my first attempt I was in New Orleans, en route to Mexico City and then on to Havana, when I was called home because my mother was gravely ill. Back [...]
It’s funny how things happen…like the call I got from central casting at Channel Seven, out of the blue, inviting me to step in front of a camera and talk about my life for five minutes. Next thing I know, I’m plunged into the world of reality TV, which, by the way, bears little resemblance [...]
Home stays come in many guises, not all pretty. The more time you put into researching the area, reading peer reviews and even checking out Google Earth, the luckier you're likely to get. I struck gold in Amsterdam with a home stay that was just about the most novel, romantic and comfortable stay I have [...]
My friend, the talented photographer Anna Maryke Grey, spent seven years putting together a body of work which she exhibited last year in Sydney. I bought a work a particularly moody still life that depends so much on a perfect shaft of light that illuminates its dark centre. All the works shared this quality but [...]
There's a great deal to be said about a destination wedding and, in my opinion, most of it is positive. Planning a wedding has become an enormous undertaking, and the expense that surrounds it means brides often have to compromise on what they want. I got married in Rome and [...]
Wherever you go in the world, you stumble across Australians doing remarkable things. Entering the walled courtyard of the 16th Century restored farmhouse, Masseria Trapana, near Lecce in Puglia, I am greeted by a very Italian-looking host with a deep, olive complexion. Yet the accent is distinctly Adelaidean. Rob Potter-Sanders [...]
