Katrina Lobley

Writer Katrina Lobley – who specialises in travel and the arts - lives in Sydney with a Belgian barge dog that reacts badly to seeing suitcases emerge from the closet.

Balloons fly above temples in Bagan, Myanmar.

Myanmar

How to get high in Myanmar

A balloon ride provides a bird's eye view of the famous temples and pagodas of the Bagan plains.

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Illusion: A Dali mural in Girona.

A surreal experience in Catalonia

The busiest point of Spain’s Dali triangle is Figueres, home to the Dali Theatre-Museum, but Dali's house-museum in Portlligat and the Gala Dali Castle in Pubol are refreshingly free of visitors.

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Castle room.

Kings of the castle

It's gothic, it's 14th-century and it lifts spirits as a perfectly timed luxury stay on a walk through Catalonia, Katrina Lobley says.

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