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Our writers have just returned from this gorgeous property, so look forward to a full rundown soon. For now, Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hoi An is offering Return to Balance, a new wellness stay aimed at anyone who suspects their own balance may have quietly packed a bag and left sometime around Tuesday.
On tour at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, the Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities and his literary agent embark on the next instalment of Eat, Pray, Bruv.
There’s a version of Nashville everyone thinks they know. Cowboy hats. Bachelorette sashes. Dolly Parton smiling down from every wall in town. Hot chicken that fights back. Keith Urban sightings. The neon stretch of Broadway blasting country covers into humid Tennessee nights.
Monaco has launched six new walking routes, which is encouraging because Monaco is the sort of place where one assumes walking is mainly done by impeccably dressed people crossing from a Bentley to a yacht.
Returning from Friday 16 to Sunday 25 October 2026, the Orange Wine Festival will spread more than 40 events across ten days in one of Australia’s most distinctive cool-climate wine regions. There will be everything from tastings to intimate encounters with winemakers.
The Kriya Spa at the Grand Hyatt Bali in Nusa Dua appears to have been designed on the ambitious premise that you may arrive as one person and leave as a loosely assembled collection of very happy limbs.
Some places announce themselves with fireworks and enough polished surfaces to make a person feel underdressed by the time they have located reception. Arjan Cave at Kamalaya does something far more interesting. It sits at the centre of the retreat, faintly amused, as if it has watched centuries of human fuss come and go and has decided silence remains the best review.
Kununurra sits in the far north of Western Australia, and it demands a different kind of attention to the postcards I’d grown up with. Uluru gets the fridge magnet. The Kimberley is like being in another stratosphere.
I grew up devoted to Get Smart. For me, Maxwell Smart was the perfect secret agent. He blundered magnificently through danger with the cheerful confidence of a man who had never once allowed competence to ruin a good adventure. Which is why The Porter House Hotel Sydney struck me as exactly the sort of place where Agent 86 might stay, provided CONTROL had suddenly acquired excellent taste and a heritage architecture budget.
The first stay was in Allawah’s two-bedroom apartment at Picture Point – 35 Picture Point Crescent, nestled in one of Noosa’s most prestigious pockets. It’s close enough to Hastings Street and Noosa Main Beach to make wandering down feel effortless, yet far enough away to avoid the full holiday parade of families negotiating ice-cream diplomacy in public.
It’s easy to label time away at a health retreat ‘for yourself’ as indulgent, or a luxury even.
But the older I get, the more I see it differently. Taking deliberate time out isn’t about escape. It’s about maintenance. A reset. A considered pause that allows me to return sharper, calmer and frankly, a little bit better company for everyone else.
On tour at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities and his literary agent embark on the bromantic sequel to Eat, Pray, Bruv.
