Great Barrier Feast at qualia on Hamilton Island with Chef Dan Hunter

Great Barrier Feast at qualia on Hamilton Island with Chef Dan Hunter. Chef Dan Hunter, Victoria. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

A highlight of our time back home in Australia was getting to gourmet foodie weekend Great Barrier Feast at qualia on Hamilton Island for master-classes and meals with Chef Dan Hunter, formerly of The Royal Mail, now running his own restaurant, Brae. Held periodically throughout the year on this tropical Queensland island in the Whitsundays group of 74 … Read more

Celebrating Songkran in Thailand – A Big Water Fight and Buddhist Festival

Celebrating Songkran in Thailand means getting soaked. The traditional Theravāda Buddhist festival to mark Thai New Year has turned into one big water fight over the years.

Celebrating Songkran in Thailand means getting absolutely soaked. The traditional Theravāda Buddhist festival to mark Thai New Year has turned into one big water fight over the years. While you can still visit pagodas to observe rituals, you’ll still need to prepared to get drenched. Celebrating Songkran in Thailand is fun for some, a nightmare for … Read more

Enjoying the Campsie Food Festival, Sydney

Campsie Food Festival, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

If further proof than Haymarket’s Chinatown or ‘Little Asia’ was needed to attest to Sydney’s multiculturalism and reign as an ethnic foodie capital, Campsie Food Festival offered it. I hadn’t been to Campsie in many years and when I was last there it was for a long lunch at the family home of a Sicilian friend. … Read more

Vivid Sydney, a Festival of Light, Music and Ideas

Vivid Sydney, a Festival of Light, Music and Ideas. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Vivid Sydney was never a more appropriate name for a festival. A festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney sees the city’s already dazzling waterfront area spectacularly illuminated by lighting projections and installations while creative events around Sydney light up minds. UPDATE May 2016. Vivid Sydney is on once again, from 27 May to 18 June … Read more