Today was a great way to end our whirlwind trip. We hired a car and ventured out of the city to Jenolan Caves, about 180km out of Sydney in the Blue Mountains. The first thing to note was the terrible weather – it was foggy and drizzling the whole way – sometimes we couldn’t see more...

An earlyish start this morning to tackle a restaurant I’ve been looking forward to for a while.  We have most of Bill Granger’s books, and find his recipes simple and stunningly nice.  We arrived just after 9:30am to his original Bills restaurant, and were pleasantly surprised to get a...

Our plane trip from Melbourne to Sydney went smoothly… if you blinked, you would have missed it – about 10 minutes after finishing the ascent, the captain announced we were beginning our descent!  An hour trip overall. The first thing we noticed about Sydney was that the city’s drivers...