We were excited about eating out in Melbourne. For food and wine lovers, the chance to spend 12 days eating in Melbourne was thrilling. Melbourne’s food scene is considered by many to be the best in Australia and its restaurants are serving up some of the finest contemporary Australian cuisine. Being lapsed Sydneysiders, having not lived in Sydney … Read more
We recently spent 12 days in Melbourne, Australia, on assignment for an Asian travel magazine, getting a taste of the city’s food scene for a story we called ‘Mouthwatering Melbourne’. I took 4,712 images over that time there. Mouthwatering Melbourne, A Taste of the Melbourne Food Scene Because of the tight schedule we were on, … Read more
How to meet locals when you travel – does the world really need another story on the subject? Surely we’ve written enough on the topic? We’ve told you many times before that what we love most about travel is meeting locals and we’ve shared loads of tips on how to meet locals when you travel. … Read more
The waiter who looked after us during the Amantaka cooking course we did on the organic farm in the Luang Prabang countryside was brilliant. His service was impeccable. He was so good at his job that when we asked him what his future plans were, whether he had a dream, we expected he would say … Read more
Exploring Phousi Hill, also known as Phou Si or Mount Phousi, is one of those must-do activities that travellers to Luang Prabang do, as much for the sweeping vistas of the sleepy town, the Mekong River and Khan River, and the surrounding mountains, as for the hidden temples, shrines, stupas, and golden Buddhas that dot the lush 100 … Read more