#Australian Travel
Articles tagged #Australian Travel on Lifestyle Desires.
The road out of town: four weekends from Sydney, mapped by season
I left Sydney on a Thursday in July, two hours later than I'd meant to. The city exhales on a Friday afternoon and half a million people point their bonnets toward the same escape routes. Here is what I've learnt about the four escapes that actually deliver.
Four hours to the lagoon: direct to Cocos, finally
On 1 May, QantasLink cut the Port Hedland stopover from its Friday flight to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The journey is now four hours, the lagoon is waiting, and the arithmetic of a long weekend has shifted. Cleo Tasman does the maths from a bar stool at the Cocos Club.
The Gold Coast Reinvents Itself — Again
From schoolies trip cliche to lifestyle-migration darling, the Gold Coast has been quietly reinventing what it means to live and visit there. Inside the cultural and economic shift behind Australia's most polarising holiday destination.