Category: culture

MusicMondays at Umbrella

Each week Doctor D introduces the best of local original acoustic music: singer-songwriters, duos and bands – folk, blues, country, pop, Americana- in Adelaide’s oldest pub, the Edinburgh Castle Hotel.

Suburbs of Sydney II

Surry Hills and Chippendale Away from the glittering CBD and the serene waters of the harbour, Sydney’s inner suburbs offer a glimpse into the real life of Sydneysiders, at least of those rich enough or fortunate enough to live there. Two suburbs lie on either side of Central Station in defiance of the usual close-to-station-seediness rule

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Highland hospitality

 Huntly is a small town (population 4,000) in the North East of Scotland, not forty miles from Aberdeen. Despite growing up in this part of the world, I had never properly visited Huntly. Neither did I know that the town is the home of Dean’s Shortbread– not as famous as Walkers, but probably better. With

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