Category Archive: travel

Travel: Make a great escape to the sun

Hey Australian friends, are you already completely-and-utterly over the winter rain? Are you fed-up with the fact your house is like an icebox? Are you longing for some sunshine? Some warmth on your skin?… Read More

Vivid Sydney Harbour Tour: Ticket Giveaway!

Vivid Sydney, the ever-amazing annual celebration of lights/music/ideas, is just around the corner and, for the first time ever, you can get front row seats to the best of what’s happening around the harbour on an… Read More

Festival news: Your Paradise returns

Attention all festival-heads! The boutique island festival ‘Your Paradise’ is back for its second year, taking place on the Fijian island of Malolo Lailai from November 17th–23rd 2015. Better start applying for your… Read More

The Byron at Byron cooks up a treat

If you’re a foodie looking for a luxurious getaway retreat, then pay attention, because The Byron at Byron Resort & Spa has cooked up something abso-bloody-lutely delicious for your delectation. Guests visiting the resort on… Read More

The Gantry does Mercedes Benz Fashion Week

So we totally got invited to abso-bloody-lutely every show at this year’s farshun week in Sydney. See you in the front row? Lol, jk, we didn’t get invited to anything, so we’re having… Read More

Life imitates art: David Walsh and Dan Yack

A Dedication By Nathan Roche Modern Australia doesn’t have such a good track-record of successful moneymakers and tycoons directing their money to a worthy cultural or even tasteful cause. Frankly, most of the… Read More

Food and Drink: The Gantry opens its doors

On Tuesday, we headed along to Pier One Sydney Harbour for the launch party of The Gantry Restaurant and Bar. The event saw the recently refurbished bar/restaurant officially swing open its doors, with over 200 esteemed… Read More

Photos: Double Exposure in Dungeness

With the promise of mostly dry weather from their various smartphone apps, analogue film and camera enthusiasts Captain Bonobo, Fotobes and somethingyousaid.com’s 25ThC took a photo road trip down to Dungeness on the South East… Read More

Reasons Glebe is the best/worst suburb

Somethingyousaid.com’s Matt Lengren offers three reasons Glebe is the best (or possibly worst – perception is key) Sydney suburb in which to live: Local Characters Whoever coined the phrase ‘keep your friends close… Read More

Gay lifestyle and issues in China

Stephanie Cobon battles a hangover while considering the increasingly visible gay lifestyle culture in China: I kept my eyes tightly shut and became conscious of the hot mass sitting at the bottom of my… Read More

Interview: Loveariel Paints Walls in Bali

Sydney-based artist and musician Ariel Lauren Sexton-Shaw, perhaps better know to you as Loveariel, recently headed to Bali where she adorned walls with huge, stunning murals. We asked her more about it: Hey Ariel.… Read More

Port wine tasting in Porto

Somethingyousaid.com visits sunny Portugal to get our wine on: Porto, Portugal, is a city hemmed by the glittering seam of the Rio Douro. From Porto’s riverfront area, the names of famous port wine producers… Read More