Here we are in Falmouth, population 102 according to the 2016 census. It could just be the most liveable town in Australia! If there were...

When I first booked Saltcotes for Christmas, I gave no thought to its position relative to the Derwent River, or to the date of the...

We agreed that if we spent Christmas in Tassie this year we wouldn't do gifts at all. No tree, no bonbons, no gifts, no pre-cooking. A...

O'Possum Bay is a sleepy village forty minutes drive from Hobart, yet it's light years away. Fifties weatherboard cottages snuggle low...

In the south-east of Tasmania on a 200-acre peninsula surrounded by the chilly waters of Esperance Bay and the d'Entrecasteaux Channel,...

Hobart is really buzzing. There's a sophistication born of knowing who you are and what you're good at. A quiet confidence that Tassie...

This morning at the hotel I sat in my preferred breakfast seat in front of the servery. The two tables there are outside the dining room...

​'When you buy or commission the work of a craftsman you buy more than just an item or service. You buy hundreds of hours of...

I loved seeing the very sophisticated Petersham Nurseries shop at Covent Garden - I tried to walk in before it even opened! But I was...

That's the gist of what Samuel Johnson said way back in 1777. I couldn't agree more! So when I woke on Saturday to grey skies and...

Picture a chef standing in front of you shucking ice-cold Mersea Island oysters as fast as you can eat them. That was Thursday night,...

I've been looking forward to searching the archives at Kew for so long I could hardly believe that the day had finally arrived. I was so...

The weather in Cork was just brilliant the whole time I was there but today it dawned drizzly, windy and foggy! It wasn't a pea souper...

If you've been following my research travels, you'll know there's been magic happening. When I told a man sitting next to me on a plane...

'I think Europcar is the best rental car company in the world,' I said seriously. 'That wasn't always the case,' said my helper at Cork...