Russia’s Museum of Erotica
Tamara Sheward comes eye to eye with Russia’s greatest love machine – Rasputin. Or at least, his preserved penis. A visit to a sexual health …
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Destinations, Europe, Russia, St. Petersburg
Serbia’s EXIT Festival
Heartsick over the Love Parade breakup? Quaking in your gumboots at the thought of Beyonce headlining Glastonbury? This (northern) summer, fling your festival net a …
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Destinations, Europe, Serbia
The World’s Most Sinful Food
Author, travel writer, editor and Lonely Planet TV presenter Tamara Sheward goes the whole hog with a tour of some of the world’s most sinful …
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Australia, Destinations, Europe, Ireland, Melbourne, North America, Pacific, Ukraine, USA, Victoria
The Rio Hostel That Makes Us Go ‘Aaaah!’
Bonita welcomes the solo and discerning traveller with an inclusive hospitality unimaginable at the backpacker factories down the Rua.
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Brazil, Destinations, Rio de Janeiro, South America
Pure Pop, Melbourne – It’s a record store, it’s a bar, it’s a live venue…
Billed as “the only record store/bar/café/live venue in the world”, this St Kilda institution is as eccentric as it is eclectic.
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Australia, Destinations, Melbourne, Pacific, Victoria
Snuggle up, Slavic style
Tamara Sheward discovers that Melbourne’s Borsch Vodka and Tears delivers everything it promises. Well, almost
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Australia, Food and drink, Melbourne, Victoria
Your First Time on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro
Tamara Sheward gets the bottom line on keeping up with the throngs in thongs on Rio’s famous Ipanema Beach
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Brazil, Destinations, Rio de Janeiro, South America
Tasmania’s Scallop Pies – Australian Culinary Legends
Tamara Sheward discovers gourmet seafood in old-fashioned Tasmanian pies.
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Australia, Tasmania
Cambodia’s Private Paradise
It’s BYO travel in the truest sense — hammocks, camping gear and food supplies — but for those with pioneer fantasies, it’s unbeatable.
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Asia, Budget Travel, Cambodia, Destinations, Exotic Destinations
Melbourne, Australia – Home of Great Tattoos
If you live in — or are visiting — Melbourne, there’s one place where those of the arty/pain persuasion can get inked up with no fear of regret.
By Tamara Sheward
Categories Melbourne, Victoria


