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Thanks to our resident green-thumb, Georgina Reid of The Planthunter, we’ve been lucky enough to peek inside some pretty incredible gardens Australia-wide. Last year, we took a tour of Sunnymeade; an expertly landscaped property in Anglesea, belonging to Peter and Simone Shaw of Ocean Road Landscaping, who are in the biz of creating environmentally sensitive residential gardens.

You can see the splendor for yourself, thanks to Open Gardens Victoria, as Peter opens the proverbial door to Sunnymeade this weekend.

I didn’t notice my chipped nail polish until I walked into a room full of beauty editors.

I was at Halcyon House in Cabarita Beach, one of the best loved boutique hotels in Australia, to see the development of the new resort spa, alongside editors from all the major publications. SOMEHOW, I had forgotten to remove the remnants of a forgotten pedicure I’d had eight months ago.

Sorry Mum.

Returning to the office this week has us all optimistic about things like riding to work (instead of driving) and making a nice lunch everyday (instead of spending $15 on takeaway).

Join us on the lunchbox bandwagon (!) with these Pinterest-worthy lunch ideas, from our recipe archives!

With lines snaking up the street from her two gelato stores in Melbourne, and a new recipe book published by Hardie Grant, it’s hard to believe that Lisa Valmorbida’s insanely popular Pidapipò Gelateria has only been around for three years.

At first, Lisa couldn’t come up with a name for her soon-to-exist gelateria. Nothing sounded right. It wasn’t until her father suggested ‘Pidapipò’, an Italian finger game that Lisa’s Nonno used to play, that she felt they were on the right track. Now, she couldn’t imagine it being called anything else.

Today, Lisa shares her epic gelato banana split!

WIN the BEST DAY EVER, in Brisbane!

Spend the ultimate day in sunny Brisbane, complete with an overnight hotel stay, visit to QAGOMA, lunch and dinner AND after-dinner drinks at our fave local restaurants and bar, plus store visits complete with shopping vouchers. Check the full line-up below!

How to enter? Simply take our annual reader survey this week to be in the running to WIN!

WIN the BEST DAY EVER, in Sydney!

Spend the ultimate day in sparkly Sydney, complete with an overnight stay at one of our favourite hotels, inside tour of the Sydney Opera House, lunch and dinner at our favourite Sydney restaurants, plus store visits complete with shopping vouchers and much more!

Check the full line-up below, and stay tuned later today as we roll out our final itinerary at noon: Brisbane!

How to enter? Simply take our annual reader survey this week to be in the running to WIN!

This year for our annual Christmas Giveaway, we’re offering three lucky winners the BEST. DAY. EVER!

We’ve curated a line-up of truly amazing itineraries in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The prizes include a stay at our pick of local hotels, lunch and dinner at top eateries, awesome experiences for art and design lovers, plus store visits complete with shopping vouchers, for three lucky readers and their BFFs!

FIRST UP,  our ultimate day out in Melbourne! Check the full line-up below… and stay tuned later today as we roll out the Sydney and Brisbane itineraries!

How to enter? Simply take our annual reader survey this week to be in the running to WIN!

There aren’t too many people who would be brave enough to drop out of a ‘stable’ university degree, pack up and travel halfway across the world to Italy to go to ‘Gelato University’. But that’s exactly what Lisa Valmorbida of Pidapipò did, and despite a couple of bumps in the road, she hasn’t looked back!

Fast-forward to 2017 and Lisa has two of her own thriving gelato stores in Melbourne, and most recently released her first book, Pidapipò, through Hardie Grant books. We’re lucky enough to have the ice-cream aficionado on hand this month to share a few of her favourite recipes to knock the socks off friends and family this holiday season!

Today we bring you our first garden feature from South Australia – an exceptional, functional ecosystem as well as a public sanctuary!

Taking out the 2017 Sustainability Award for Landscape and Urban Design, the 2.5-hectare Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland has been designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean.

The landscape architecture firm’s Director, Damian Schultz, takes us through this wonderful project, through which they’ve sought to highlight the poetry and processes of the natural world.

As Head of Art at Leonard Joel auction house, Sophie Ullin is one lucky woman who has the job of frequenting the world’s premier art fairs, exhibitions and biennales. Yet, of all her incredible experiences (we’re feeling the #FOMO!), the city that has captivated her the most, and inspired her own personal guide is… Venice!

After being part of the Australia Council tour group to the City of Canals for the past two decades, earlier this year Sophie decided it was time to release The Venice Book.  For this hardcover, she’s also enlisted an awe-inspiring band of creatives, travel editors, art aficionados and philanthropists to open their own ‘black books and memory banks’ and offer up the best of the city, from fabulous artworks, churches and museums to authentic eateries and artisanal treasure troves. There’s also a solid-gold guide to navigating the Biennale, the ‘Olympics of the art world’, which is on now.

Today, Sophie gives us an insight into her Venice highlights – get your itinerary app ready!