A Tempting Collection

Wedged between Manly Boatshed and Three Beans Café in Manly, a long way from home in Swiss origins, is my favourite ice-creamery. Mövenpick is the perfect precursor to lunch at Manly Beach. I am meeting some friends for lunch and as I walk along the Corso hand-in-hand with my daughter to meet them, I can’t resist the ...

Jeep Portsea Polo

Last weekend kicked off the eleventh annual Polo event at Portsea in Victoria, a mainstay of Melbourne's summer prestigious social calendar. The Polo has become the Melbourne Cup of summer and has often been dubbed "the Birdcage by the Sea". And what a sea it is - the Portsea Polo field at the pointy end of the picturesque Mornington Peninsula, ...

Cold Shoulder

There’s a new neckline in town for summer, one that is subliminally sensual. Let's take a small trip down memory lane first: do you remember that scene in Pretty Woman where Vivian (Julia Roberts) walks out wearing the red floor-sweeping, off-the-shoulder gown, ready for the opera? Do you remember the gasp you drew when she walked through that door? Sexy, right? Right! ...

Melbourne Cup Birdcage

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend “The Race that Stops the Nation” in the most revered location at Flemington, the Birdcage? Me too! Three years ago I decided to add yet another seemingly impossible task to my bucket list. I yearned for the hottest ticket in town, to rub shoulders with A-Listers ...