Holidays
Opinion
Opinion
How Japanese design thinking created Marie Kondo
From the bedrooms and toilets to its extraordinary public transport system, Japan and its culture is tidy by design.
- by Jenna Price
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Are Victorians happy campers? It depends on who you talk to ...
We asked readers to tells us about their own camping experiences in Victoria. This is what they said ...
Opinion
Opinion
Don't bother flying to Fiji. Just string up a hammock
You don’t need all of that fancy, far-away, footsy stuff to have a relaxing summer break.
- by Danny Katz
Unhappy Gippsland campers face losing their annual camping spots
'You wait for someone to die': Should Victoria's campers on public land be able to renew 'their' sites every summer?
- by Carolyn Webb
Foreign Relations
'Are there vampires in Poland?': The weird calls UK embassies received in 2018
One caller complained a cat had urinated on his hotel bed, while another heard the British High Commission was selling sausages and wanted to buy some.
Holidays
Search on for Victoria's unknown $1.7 million lotto winner
Check your pockets: Those of a lucky punter who bought a lotto ticket in seaside town Ocean Grove are about to get significantly bigger.
- by Carolyn Webb
opinion
Holidays
Holidays precious time here and over the horizon
It’s a great time to be out and about.
Holidays
Where to ring in the New Year in Sydney
Here's your complete guide to where to go and what to do to see in the New Year in the Harbour City.
- by Laura Chung, Ben Weir & Josh Dye
City life
Christmas roast in an electric frypan: 59 consecutive camping summers
'I wouldn't change it for the world': Graham Porter, 63, is celebrating his 59th successive Rosebud camping trip with his family.
- by Carolyn Webb
Opinion
Opinion
The Burmese showed me how to do Boxing Day
Australians treat this 24 hours of laziness as a cultural right. But my Burmese hosts weren't having it.
- by Virginia Haussegger
Holidays
The best (and worst) things to do on Boxing Day
If you’re not working, you have some difficult decisions ahead of you.
- by Kerri Sackville