Category: Lifestyle

Festival city

TOP REASONS TO VISIT ADELAIDE Its climate may be hot, but South Australia offers the coolest mix of brilliant wine country, abundant produce festivals, stark and stunning tracts of picturesque Aussie outback and crowd-free beaches that could make even the Bahamas jealous. Lonely Planet top travel regions 2017. My chosen  place in the world is Adelaide, South

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Brissie bandrooms

Lefties Old Tyme Music Hall, Brisbane

Reminiscing the retro A trip to Brisbane  presented the opportunity to sample a couple of new (to me) live music venues: Leftie’s Old Time Music Hall and Sonny’s House of Blues. Leftie’s Old Time Music Hall, in the shadow of the Suncorps Stadium, is exactly as described- offering old time good times with its rum featured Mermaid Bar

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Haggis, neeps and tattoos

Variations on a theme Being the 25th of January, and especially as one of our nearest pubs is Adelaide’s Scottish pub, the Rob Roy Hotel, it would have been remiss of us, if not downright unpatriotic, not to have celebrated the Bard (Robert Burns) in the traditional way. Traditions remain, but customs change; so instead

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