Heights of passion
Author Emily Bronte set Heathcliff and Cathy’s doomed love story on those same mysterious west Yorkshire moors
By Clare Press
Categories Destinations, England, Yorkshire
Sydney’s Glamorous Dog Hotels
Gone are the days when the dog slept in the yard and was dispatched off to kennels come holiday time.
By Clare Press
Categories Australia, Pacific, Sydney
Shanghai: Almost French
Shanghai has a reputation as a city that is demolishing its links to the past as fast as it is spewing out products and pollution, but a short stay in the atmospheric French concession proves the opposite.
By Clare Press
Categories China, Shanghai
Hong Kong: A taste of the high life
Luckily there remain pockets of deco decadence in Hong Kong where you can pretend you’re Nancy Cunard – at least for as long as it takes for the tea to be poured.
By Clare Press
Categories China, Cultural, Hong Kong
Reality Check
People are forever going on about buying fake goods in Hong Kong, but what happens if you don’t want a wannabe Rolex or a dodgy vinyl Louis Vuitton bag?
By Clare Press
Categories China, Hong Kong
Sydney’s Redfern and Waterloo Uncovered
Sydney’s Waterloo and Redfern are fast filling up with interesting new cafes, furniture stores and art spaces. The realtors have been trying to bump up house prices in the area by re-badging the block of streets south of Cleveland Street and east of Crown as East Redfern, presumably to capitalise on the chic reputation of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. But in fact that precinct is mostly just houses, Federation terraces that are slowly being done up with a few tower blocks thrown in. Much more fun is Redfern proper, with its odd mix of done-up warehouses, new galleries, crumbling old terraces and new development.
By Clare Press
Categories New South Wales, Sydney
How to Travel Light
It was my grandmother’s habit to drag her suitcases from storage at least three weeks before any trip, plotting and planning which beaded jacket to take with which cocktail dress, how many sheets of tissue paper she’d need to layer her knits, which swimsuit went with which sunhat. You can’t go anywhere without a cocktail dress – not even the beach – because you never know, you see, who might be there and where they might invite you. Call it ready for anything. Call it super-organised. Call it neurotic. Whatever. I inherited this gene.
By Clare Press
Categories How To Travel, Travel Tips and Secrets
A Posh Pad in Shanghai
We do not travel, of course, to experience the familiar. That said, there is something comforting about bunking down in a thoroughly modern pied a terre when visiting a city as crazily confusing, polluted and exasperating as Shanghai can be. The Philippe Starck designed JIA Shanghai hotel, housed in a converted downtown art deco building, is just that.
By Clare Press
Categories China, Shanghai
Flirting With Rome
Clare Press explores Italy’s favourite national pastime on a Roman Holiday.
The last time a bloke wolf-whistled at me in Sydney I told him in colourful tones where to go (needless to say it wasn’t out with me for a candle-lit dinner). This man was driving a white van, and commenced his ogling just as I [...]
By Clare Press
Categories Italy, Rome
