It's amazing how easy it is to obtain a brown tourist road sign in Australia. Most ridiculous monuments of this sort are set up al...

I had visited the State Library of Victoria, and found it to be exceptional. The State Library of South Australia shows that there are s...

It was no accident that we made plans to return to the Barossa wine region. Wine in Australia is unpretentious, accessible, and aside fr...

There are quite a few fine wine regions in Australia. There are so many, that one might plan a vacation to capture a certain set of sigh...

They don't call it Kangaroo Island for nothing. The fauna here lost their caution around humans a few thousand years ago when abor...

The Remarkables are an impressive set of granite boulders perched prominently on the edge of Kangaroo Island. Although one might conside...

Yes, koalas really do just hang about in Australia! This one is lounging in Flinders Chase National Park , and took time away from its s...

Cape Willoughby is a long way down an unsurfaced road, and offers a charming lighthouse, in this case hiding under a rainbow! It was bu...

The Peninsula in Kowloon has a fleet of 14 Rolls Royce Phantom saloons, painted in a custom green to match the style of the hotel. They...

Hong Kong's Harbour, as seen from the top of the Conrad Hilton building. Kowloon is across the water.

Mooncakes are strange pastries gifted in southern China, Hong Kong, and Macau, during the Mid Autumn Festival. The dough and crust are l...

Krug champagne, proper caviar with a mother of pearl spoon, and a wonderfully comfortable seat combine to make Cathay Pacific's Firs...

Half Moon Bay sits west of Silicon Valley, facing the Pacific. It sees regular coastal fog and dramatic sunsets. The unusual green is fr...

Sandpipers race up and down the shore, daring incoming waves to catch them. Their wee feet work very fast indeed, and they flock so th...

As the tomato crop comes in, we thought we'd enjoy a few bubbles. The visit to Champagne was inspiring, and we had a lovely tipple o...