Have you ever wondered what life as a grey nomad is like? Each year Australia’s retirees escape the southern winter like flocks of birds in their mobile homes, up the coast, East and West of the continent. They usually come…

Have you ever wondered what life as a grey nomad is like? Each year Australia’s retirees escape the southern winter like flocks of birds in their mobile homes, up the coast, East and West of the continent. They usually come…
The best things to do in Mission Beach? There’s a lot to do in a place where two World Heritage listed sites meet. That’s right. Mission Beach is one of those rare places on the planet, where the reef and…
It’s the last weekend of the school holidays and Australia’s beaches are at peak capacity. Getting away from the crowds will be tricky. So we do the only sensible thing. We take the yacht of the working classes to an…
Until recently ‘tinny’ was a word I had to look up in a dictionary. Australian slang for a small aluminium boat, the yacht of the working classes, was something that belonged in a Tim Winton novel, together with his celebration of…
I had many pre-conceived ideas about the Gold Coast when I visited for the first time recently, but finding a place besotted with everything retro was not one of them. Checking in at the trendy QT hotel, I was assisted by concierges…