Centara Grand Phratamnak Resort Pattaya, due to open in August this year, will bring a five-star hotel to the city’s exclusive Phratamnak Hill residential district, set within a few steps of the beach and with a design that complements the surrounding high-end villas and condominiums. … Continue Reading
HUNTER Valley maker Andrew Margan has an unusual wish for his 2011 White Label Barbera – “I hope no one likes it,” he confides, and then adds a little cheekily, “so I can drink it all myself.” … Continue Reading
WE’VE never really considered Berlin the place to go for a tropical holiday.
So when a British-based colleague told us in January he was ducking over there to swap the Poms’ winter snow and zero-temperatures for a week of tropical 26-degree temperatures, maybe camp in a rainforest, play golf in shorts and T-shirts, and get a suntan on a sandy beach, we considered he’d gone, well, maybe a little bit troppo. … Continue Reading
A shivering ground mist at dawn in Thailand’s Golden Triangle is not the place to be dancing on one leg while changing into mahout pants. … Continue Reading
IT’S not often a wine company will ’fess up that they’ve let their eye off the ball, but Yellowglen has done just that – and is doing something very positive about it. … Continue Reading
IT’S generally only the more adventurous make it to remote Gizo in the Solomon Islands, a magical place of some of the world’s best fishing and wreck and reef diving, and from where you can venture a further 10kms to a miniscule dot shown on most charts as Kasolo Atoll. … Continue Reading
THE Hunter Valley’s McGuigan Wines has released an interesting Shiraz that’s actually made from fruit from South Australia’s Langhorne Creek – and which has a touch of Viognier in it to give a softer mouth-feel than a straight full-bodied Shiraz. … Continue Reading
THEY may have changed the country’s name from Burma to Myanmar and its capital from Rangoon to Yangon, but the ambience of the British Empire lives on in the bar at the grand old Strand Hotel. … Continue Reading
There is a part of you that you have yet to discover.A journey to Thailand, Southeast Asia’s emerald, offers a rare opportunity to discover another you. … Continue Reading
THE Brits love to let you know they’ve a ghost of two around, and the more macabre the plight of the poor soul whose spirit supposedly haunts their local pub, mansion, castle or monastery, the more they relish sharing – and just occasionally – embellishing their yarn. … Continue Reading
