Category: Lifestyle

Boats, borders and booze

Saturday afternoon in northern Zealand or southern Sweden… what shall we do? Pub? Restaurant? Shopping? Park? How about country-hopping on the ferry? Or just stay all day (!) on board as it shuttles back and forth the 4 km Oresund channel between Denmark’s Helsingor and Sweden’s Helsingborg. Swedes take the boat to access cheap(er) alcohol

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Music in the square

Now that Fringe is over for another year and mad March too, Adelaide life has returned to normal. Fortunately normal includes free lunchtime music in the city’s Victoria and Hindmarsh Squares courtesy of Music SA and the council. A happy throng of lanyard-bearers and the free enjoyed the late summer sun and tunes from the

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Suburbs of Sydney VI: Glebe

Cocktail shakers: the sound of early evening in Sydney’s inner west.   Chatter. Clatter. A vegan platter. Cocktail shaker. Artisanal baker. Light rail. Heart fail. Climbing up to Glebe Point Road. Glebe 2037 is a suburb in Sydney’s inner west about 3 km from the central business district (CBD) to which it almost stretches. A

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