Beijing Celebrity
Cheering crowds, paparazzi, stylish motorcycle tours and free cookies - all part of a celebrity Beijing experience.
View ArticleYou had me at Sakura
You can keep Paris, Japan in the springtime has cast its spell on me. Geisha, temples and the strongest elixir of all, the delicious, ubiquitous sight of Sakura on dark cherry wood boughs.
View ArticleSafari Stampede
A large cow standing some ways off to our right instantly transformed from gentle giant into provoked pachyderm in response to her calf's trumpeting. She focused her beady eyes on the jeep, emitted a...
View ArticleTaipei Takes Friendly to New Heights
Taipei may be the friendliest little big city in Asia.
View ArticleSydney’s Speakeasy Obsession
Apparently the masses are yearning for the good old days of American Prohibition when bartenders wore braces, real men wore their mustaches waxed and everyone drank their whisky neat.
View ArticleSassoon’s Shanghai
Imposing art deco and neoclassical style banks and hotels stretch for a mile along Zhongshan Road, otherwise known as the Bund. A gentleman in a drape cut suit leaning on a silver-tipped cane would...
View ArticleWater Dragons in Flight: Part I
The Year of the Dragon was a 'yang' year, described as an active and forward moving year of excitement and unpredictability. You can say that again.
View ArticleWater Dragons in Flight: Part II
Goat people are sweet creatures - we are dependable, studious, calm, nurturing, quiet and reserved. We don't do things like take solo trips to India, explore deserted Filipino beaches with a band of...
View ArticleReady, Set, Rugby
Soon over 100,000 spectators will flock to Hong Kong for one of the most highly anticipated international sporting events of the year. The Hong Kong Sevens tournament promises to drop kick an action...
View ArticleA Night Out at the Raj Mandir
The Raj Mandir is a classic cinema hall in an age of generic multiplexes. A pink confection of a theatre where audience participation is encouraged and Bollywood’s biggest stars come to life.
View ArticleFinding Love in India
“Go to India,” the old monk counsels. “In India are many many men.” He's right. There are over 600 million men in India and a rather shocking gender gap. But alas, finding love is never easy, even in...
View ArticleCommon Grounds
At the risk of spilling the beans, coffee cravers are discovering a diverse range of options in Singapore’s Farrer Park.
View ArticleA Show of Good Faith
The young dancer closes one eye and leans in to the dusty mirror’s harsh fluorescent lighting. Within seconds, another set of false eyelashes is in place. Widya Apsari flutters her eyelids and smiles....
View ArticleSingapore After Dark
A version of this article appeared in the July 2013 issue of Jetstar Australia.
View ArticleA New Northern Soul
Contemporary art is flourishing in the land of a million rice fields
View ArticleThe Gathering of the Tribe
I’m standing left foot forward on a longboard. She’s a beauty: glossy candy apple red finish with sporty black pin lines and a single fin. A single wooden stringer spine runs the length of the board...
View Article25 in ’14
Saddle up! With seaplane tours taking off in Tianjin, a new water park popping up in Sydney and lots of sports venues and parks going under the knife, the Year of the Horse promises to show travelers a...
View ArticleWagashi
When the Japanese gaze up at the full moon they don’t see a man’s face, they see a rabbit standing on his hind legs pounding out a sweet rice cake with a mortar and pestle. Such is the prominence of...
View ArticleReturn to Japan
The Japan of my expat childhood was a magical, wonder-filled place. Twenty years on, would the Tokyo suburbs of my youth have anything to offer a discerning traveler? There was only one way to find out.
View ArticleSeoul Searching
Seeking out Seoul’s best jazz venues through hidden doorways and down dark alleys in upscale Gangnam, expat enclave Itaewon and hip Hongdae
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