Tag Archive: travel

Food: MeatLiquor is great fun

Burger joints are more popular than ever these days and are cropping up all over the place to allow hungry carnivores to fill their cake holes with premium beef products. MeatLiquor, which already… Read More

Travel: European Couch surfing in pictures

Somethingyousaid.com’s Koren Helbig crashes on couches of Eastern-European strangers: It’s remarkable where in the world one can end up after firing off only the barest of emails. The wonders of the internet have… Read More

Adolescent decoration, by Isidore Tillers

Germany-based Australian Isidore Tillers revisits her childhood bedroom: I went home a few months ago. And by home I don’t mean my beloved Sydney. Despite spending a good part of my childhood, as… Read More

Travel: Rome is a wonder to be seen

After a few days negotiating myself around the canals of Venice and the super-charged Biennale, I journeyed south on a fast train to Rome. The gentle lapping of water and gondolier singers were… Read More

Art: Venice and the Biennale

Somethingyousaid.com’s Carol Bowditch checked out the 55th incarnation of the Biennale in Italy’s watery city: The romance of a city drowned in water, with neat winding lanes, no cars and chocolate shops in excess had initially… Read More

Travel: Noni Cragg’s American summer

You may recall we interviewed ridiculously talented Australian artist/model Noni Cragg a while ago. Well, ever-keen to keep up to date with what she’s got going on, we asked her to document her… Read More

My ill-fated run-ins with flying

The premier sat cross-legged on a leather couch ensconced within the Queensland Government’s private hangar on the outskirts of Brisbane, her attention too often focused on her left forearm as she repeatedly gauged… Read More

Olly heads to the Northern Territory

Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath (pictured, above) navigated his way outta Sydney and into the Northern Territory, trying not to swallow too many flies along the way:  The Alice Springs desert is physically the furthest… Read More

How to share a hostel room & not be an idiot

Travelling blesses us with some of the most poignant highs of our lives, but with those blissful new horizons come some pretty grizzly doses of reality. Usually in the form of shared accommodation.… Read More

Culture-shock, identity and acceptance

Somethingyousaid.com’s Harriet Cheney considers the extreme differences between one area of a country and another: I relocated from Sydney to Darwin and a part of me got lost. The extreme culture-shock that I… Read More

Twin Lakes’ Top 5 Winter Destinations

In their year together, Newcastle/Sydney band Twin Lakes have permeating the local music scene with layers of folk/rock. Their music has a pastoral resonance that nods to bands like The Dears, Doves, Silversun Pickups,… Read More

The (deep fried) Texas State Fair

Three hours north of Austin, up the deathly straight tarmac of Highway 35, an even more lethal congestion of charming southerners slightly losing their grace awaited me, in the tight side streets of… Read More