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Destinations, hotels, food, and itineraries from the Australian edition.
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Go With The Flow
At 2350 kilometres, the Murray is Australia's longest river. In the days when paddle steamers ruled, Mark Twain once likened it to the Mississippi. And…
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Destinations
Cities, islands, and landscapes from the archive.
Features 20 Dream Escapes URBAN RETREATS Metropolitan life doesn’t have to mean compromising on creature comforts; the hidden hearts of many cities offer quiet relief.
Features 25 Great Island Escapes Why here, why now? L'Avenida, a tiny colonial mansion, opened in the old town of Sóller in March. The hotel is surrounded by orange groves and has just…
Features All-Star Karsts It's mid-morning at the Green Park Boutique Hotel, Vientiane's first, and (so far) only, upmarket boutique hotel (248 Khouvieng Road, Vientiane, Laos…
Features Amazing Places What is it? As imposing as Uluru, the Cockburn Range at El Questro Wilderness Park, at the north-eastern end of the Gibb River Road, rises like a vast…
Travel Amazing Places With so many incredible landscapes to choose from, many outstanding spots in Australia and New Zealand simply get overlooked. Travel + Leisure has put…
Leisure Before Passing Away, Try the Largest Roller Coasters I was one of the many people who are terrified of roller coasters, seeing how high they are from the ground and how fast they move. The thought of me…
Features Driving the surreal life The dreamscapes of Salvador Dali appear plucked from the recesses of his (quite possibly disturbed) mind, but many are based in fact – and that fact is…
Features Emerging Destinations Why Go Now This archipelago, an outpost of French Polynesia, has the geographic distinction of being the farthest group of islands from any continental…
Features Epic Encounter It is hoped that Baz Luhrmann's latest blockbuster, Australia, set mainly in the Top End, will help draw international travellers to the area. So what…
Features Gulf Course 1. The Pearl-Qatar, Doha, Qatar This multibillion-dollar, man-made island development is being billed as "the most glamorous address in the Middle East"…
Features Modern Beijing's Must-Sees 1. National Stadium The 90,000-seat stadium, nicknamed the "Birds Nest" (due to its cross-stitch steel and concrete exterior), like most of the Beijing…
Features Modern Love For lovers of art deco architecture, central Melbourne is as fascinating as any museum. Trams rumble past and Melburnians stride purposefully about their…
Features More Great Romantic Escapes In the hills of Sicily, four kilometres from the sea, is the secluded 19th-century farmhouse Mandranova. It's a working farm, close to the towns of…
Features My Island Home For most of us, being shipwrecked on a deserted island will remain the stuff of fantasy. And buying our own piece of island paradise? Dream on. But here…
Travel One of a Kind Cruise Adventure I am a very adventurous person and from time to time I find activities that are likeable for me to try. One of the exceptional thrills I just had…
Features Outside The Box It's back, our third annual awards honouring the essential human contribution to the way we travel, both here and abroad. This year, following T+L's…
Travel Outside The Box It's back, our third annual awards honouring the essential human contribution to the way we travel, both here and abroad. This year, following T+L's…
Features Range Rover event To celebrate its third birthday Travel + Leisure, the magazine for travellers not tourists, invites readers in Melbourne and Perth to meet and mingle…
Features Ready, set, build Clang, clang, clang. It's the ubiquitous sound - that and the act of expectorating - that pervades the Chinese capital. It's the sound of workmen…
Features Sail of the Century Floating off the north-east coast of Sicily like a bunch of naughty children who have strayed too far from their mother, the Aeolian Islands owe much to…
Features Simply The World's Best 2008 Simply The World's Best 2008. A travel feature from Travel + Leisure Australia.
Features T+L European planner In response to the global economic downturn at the end of last year airlines began offering business travellers some of the best deals that have been…
Features THE ITINERARY Arrive Launceston (most flights arrive in the evening). Note: all flights at own expense. Dinner at Quamby – casual two-course dinner with wine included.
Features THE TOP 50 DESTINATIONS OF ALL TIME The Pyramids of Giza, Parisian temptations, African safaris and Greek Island adventures all scored top marks in our survey of the world’s best travel…
Features The World's 20 Amazing Lost Destinations 1. Afghanistan Prolonged Cold War hostilities and the black curse of the Taliban have laid waste to the thriving cultural life that once drew travellers…
Leisure What to Love about Extreme Diving Skydiving is too much for some of us to handle. What more is extreme skydiving?
Features Wild at Heart It's as dark and forbidding as the inside of an All Blacks scrum when we arrive late at Rough and Tumble Bush Lodge, having been caught out by the…
Features You spin me round No fair or show seems complete without a big wheel – and these days, no major redevelopment, or city seems entirely finished without one, either. From…
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Hotels and stays
Grand hotels, beach resorts, and the It List.
Features 20 travel secrets you need to know (for your next trip) If you’re booking several nights at a quiet time of year – or if you regularly visit one particular property – a hotel will often be willing to include…
Features Affordable Beach Resorts The endless turquoise strip of Broome's Cable Beach is the raison d'etre for The Pearle (14 Millington Road, Broome, WA; 08 9194 0900; thepearle.com.au)…
Travel Affordable Beach Resorts There's nothing like a hotel by the sea – especially when it costs less than $300 a night. T+L sent correspondents around the globe, from the tiny…
Features Behind Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors. A travel feature from Travel + Leisure Australia.
Features Hotel De Niro ROBERT DE NIRO'S GREENWICH HOTEL sits resplendent – all brick and glass and wrought-iron – between Franklin and North Moore streets in Manhattan's…
Features Hotel Gizmos and Gimmicks 1. GRAMERCY PARK HOTEL, NEW YORK This pricey, designer hotel provides an iPod dock in its rooms, and a complimentary iPod, if you're uncool enough to be…
Travel How to Obtain Great Hotel Deals I am a regular traveller and it’s always been my problem to find inexpensive hotel deals. Now and again this dilemma ruins the whole vacation. So to make…
Features It List 2009 In compiling Travel + Leisure ’s fourth annual It List, our editors once again visited hundreds of new hotels around the globe. So whether you’re looking…
Features Match + Win a luxury hotel break Welcome to our monthly competition. Simply match the numbered destinations, to be featured in the next issue, with the letters on the photos. Lodge an…
Features The It List 2008 A good hotel is a place to rest your head; A great hotel has the power to transform the travel landscape. For Travel + Leisure's third annual It List, we…
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Food and drink
Dining rooms, bars, and recipes from the magazine.
Features Basque in glory Two small white envelopes on the table at Mugaritz offer a choice. On one “150 min… rebel!” is typed; on the other “150 min… submit!” Inside “rebel”, a…
Features Bittersweet Symphony The Italian isle of Sardinia is full of contrasting tastes, surprising flavours and a passion for food that is both exciting and confronting. Kendall…
Features Croquetas de bacalao 500g salt cod, soaked overnight in cold water(see note) 2 cups milk 4 garlic cloves, cut in half lengthways 2 medium sized desiree potatoes 550-600g…
Features Crown Jewels Four years ago, something remarkable happened in Las Vegas. The gaudy city spent a decade transforming itself from the last roll of the dice into one of…
Features Eats Meets West Jerry Mai was born in Vietnam but came to Australia, via Cambodia, as a child. She is head chef at Seamstress, an Asian-inspired restaurant and cocktail…
Features New York Cheesecake 200g Arnott's Morning Coffee biscuits 230g caster sugar 125g unsalted butter, melted 750g cream cheese, at room temperature 5 eggs, at room temperature 1…
Features Season to Taste Born and raised in Montréal, celebrated Sydney chef Serge Dansereau returns to discover a new focus on fresh local produce.
Features T+L's Favourite Bars plus reader comments 1. TRADER VIC'S LONDON HILTON, 22 PARK LANE, LONDON, UK Tiki bars are at their best when they are amusingly out of place, and what better location for a…
Leisure Ultimate Paris Dining Guide Restaurant critic Terry Durack has had more than his fair share of feasts de resistance in the City of Lights, a place he has come to know intimately in…
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Travel notes
Practical advice, airline notes, and the annual reports.
Features 101 money-saving travel tips 1. Be flexible . If your dates are moveable, there are bargains to be had – even more so if your destination is also unfixed. Try sites such as…
Travel A Smart Traveler is Cost-Conscious When I was not accustomed to travelling yet, I had troubles dealing with my expenses. For numerous times, I ended up going back home flat broke. But I…
Features About Us Travel + Leisure offers a clear-eyed view of the world of travel, because our writers are paid by the magazine and not by the places they stay at or…
Features Green Challenge It's not often I fancy myself the saviour of the antipodes but, standing at Sydney's Kingsford Smith International Airport waiting to board flight VS201…
Articles How I Travel without Spending Too Much Cash It’s a sad fact that when I travel, I felt like I am breaking the bank. I tried to achieve my ideal vacation but I just ended up feeling as if my money…
Features Roaming Reporter This week our Roaming Reporter advocates cheaper tracks, not skies or roads.
Features Sky High The size of Singapore Airlines' new A380 is apparent long before you reach the departure gate – there's a long, long Economy check-in line at the…
Features T+L Annual Report [CLASSIC] Aspen, US This year was the town's best snow season in three decades. But even without this abundance, the resort has endless options for all…
Features T+L Annual Report 2009 [EAT] ROCKPOOL BAR & GRILL Whether uber-chef Neil Perry is standing in front of the jumping flames of the grill at his impressive new Rockpool Bar &…
Features The New Rules of Airline Travel In bygone days the glamour of the Jet Age was captured in commercial posters depicting elegant passengers in exotic climes. These images epitomised a…
Features Top 10 travelling songs 1. Motel Blues, Loudon Wainwright III A particular type of travel, the existential angst of the travelling troubadour this perfect sketch of loneliness…