By Jay Chabon
Many of Sydney’s landmarks are awfully hard to miss (yep, the Harbour Bridge is that way) but it’s nevertheless true that Sydney is only so visible before you tour it underwater. Recent research indicates scuba diving generates billions for Australian tourism. North Queensland is the Australian location foremost synonymous with scuba diving but Sydneysiders are … Continued
By Jay Chabon
It’s diminutive stature is outright dwarfed by the likes of the Sydney Opera House but don’t be fooled: the humble dumpling is a Sydney visitor magnet in its own right. Whether you want to taste test the trade secrets dim sum masters dexterously stuff into xiao long bao (Chinese soup dumplings), wontons or Gyoza, Song … Continued
By Jay Chabon
No matter the car or cars you own, getting behind the wheel of another one is always a potentially exhilarating escape from the everyday. Especially if the car in question is a supercar. In Sydney, luxury driving experiences such as guided supercar tours, track events and extended tour packages start at a few hundred dollars … Continued
By Jay Chabon
As Sydney turns up its postcard weather, the call of the beer garden is as hard to ignore as tinnitus. And no wonder. Huddling with your good pals on communal tables of lumber as you down frosty jugs and summery wines in the greenery shade is an easy way to live. Thankfully, from Song Hotel’s … Continued
By Jay Chabon
Whether you’re eyeing a family-friendly Sydney Festival, a free one or a far-out one, the iconic summer celebration of arts and culture is oozing with options in 2018. The annual event is scheduled to stage 134 events at 51 venues over 24 days, all orbiting around the themes of human consumption, the evolution of feminism … Continued
By Jay Chabon
A decade ago, escape rooms were non-existent in Sydney. Today, it’s a world easier to find an escape room in the Harbour City than it is find your way out of one. Escape rooms are essentially physical versions of adventure games that require you (and often a team of about two-six people) to utilise the … Continued
By Jay Chabon
The more time you spend amongst the portaloo gridlock, terminal food van queues and errant stage divers, the more time you have to question if super-sized music festivals are worth the energy. If you answered no, Sydney is staging a variety of music festivals in these coming months that are might be much kinder to … Continued
By Jay Chabon
In Sydney, lots of bus tour companies are ready to roll to places you’ve always wanted to visit. Maybe you want to see locations where film and TV shows are shot. Perhaps you want to gaze long at postcard landscapes. Or maybe you have your heart set on insta-snapping Sydney’s many jewel-like landmarks. Bus tours … Continued
By Jay Chabon
The stadium seating, banging audio, skyscraper screens and bucket-sized popcorn and soft drink of the megaplex is one diversion from Netflix, but in Sydney, you can odyssey into a world of cinema that’s focused on a lot more than Hollywood. As summer edges near, too, your options start to look different. Open-air cinema, the drive-in … Continued
By Jay Chabon
Sydney: It’s living proof you needn’t be a Japanese salaryman with a necktie fashioned into a headband to fit into the karaoke scene. In the Harbour City, hens, corporates, locals and tourists all scream, croon and warble their way across the busy circuit of venues that pepper the city night. Whether you want to manifest … Continued
