Australian Traveller

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Editor’s letter

AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLER

ONLINE • Hang up that WINTER coat, it’s time to WELCOME the warmer weather back. Find your spot in the SUN at australiantraveller.com

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WISH YOU WERE HERE • WYLIE’S BATHS, SYDNEY/WARRANE, NSW

TRAVEL BUZZ • Whether your FOCUS is on train travel, staycations or reaching GREAT heights on a NEW alpine walk, here’s what to have on your RADAR for the HOLIDAY season.

PILLOW TALK • Check in to CHECK OUT the latest, GREATEST and most FABULOUS stays this HOLIDAY season.

A grand debut • Take note: these BIG-DEAL international hotel BRANDS are set to hit Aussie SHORES soon.

WINE & DINE • Celebrating the NEW and NOTEWORTHY, from a Korean FINE diner in SYDNEY/WARRANE to an ‘oarsome’ new cafe in CANBERRA.

LIFE’S A BEACH • Can’t afford the AIRFARE to Ibiza? Five of Australia’s best BEACHSIDE hangs will help lift your SPIRITS.

Heat rising • When it comes to SUMMER dressing, Australian designers set the BLUEPRINT with relaxed silhouettes that evoke EFFORTLESS elegance.

A Tassie treasure • The Nut/Munatrik in Stanley has become a LANDMARK destination on Tasmania/Lutruwita’s RUGGED north-west coast. Taylah Darnell makes the CLIMB to find out why.

Lake reflections • As CANBERRA celebrates 60 years of Lake Burley Griffin, Christine Aldred looks back at how this MAN-MADE WATERWAY has shaped our CAPITAL.

The Social Spa • Day SPAS are moving away from ‘ME TIME’ to become social HUBS in their own right, says Celeste Mitchell.

WAKING ON A DREAM

BEST IN SHOW • With Brisbane/Meanjin as its BACKDROP, this former polo CLUB on the WATERFRONT is now a hospitality hub, writes Kate Symons.

X FACTOR • One of Melbourne/Naarm’s COOLEST neighbourhoods finally gets the HIP hotel it deserves, says Carrie Hutchinson.

Latin love letter • Morena is a SLEEK modern diner in Sydney/Warrane’s heritage-listed POST OFFICE that’s importing LATIN flavours from across the Pacific. Elizabeth Whitehead samples the MENU.

HIP HOOD Caloundra, Qld • Once a slumbering BEACHSIDE town of retirees, Caloundra – the southern bookend of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, on KABI KABI COUNTRY – is CHANGING. It’s slowly shedding its bowls whites and its fibro shacks are making way for NEW development, writes Celeste Mitchell.

Point of view • Victoria’s MACEDON RANGES hide tiny gold-rush towns brimming with old-world charm, 40-odd WINERIES and one mystery-shrouded ROCK, as Laura Waters discovers.

SENSE OF ARRIVAL • Embedded in the coastal wilderness of KANGAROO ISLAND, the REIMAGINED Southern Ocean Lodge celebrates community, creativity and PLACE like never before.

Suite DREAMS • Spend an UNFORGETTABLE night under the Coral Sea at Reefworld, where LUXURY meets the BREATHTAKING BEAUTY of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.

MOOD BOARD • While relaxing by the WATER might be the main drawcard of a Hawkesbury River getaway, gourmet dining, OYSTER farm tours and all-out LUXURY seal the deal at Calabash Bay Lodge.

NATURE VS NURTURE • A day spent in the KEPPEL ISLANDS reveals beaches and bays of dizzying beauty, with the Southern Great Barrier Reef THRIVING beneath the SURFACE. It’s also a sobering realisation of how close we came to seeing this untouched PAR ADISE irrevocably changed.

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SUMMER IN THE CITY • The days are longer, nights are BALMY and there’s an ENERGY in our cities that only SUMMER can emanate. Those who have their...