The seaside town of Kiama is a favourite getaway for Sydneysiders. Two hours from the city on the Princes Highway, it works for a day trip, a stop on the way further down the coast, or a holiday destination in its own right. With its dramatic black cliffs, pounding surf and rolling green hills, Kiama …
‘Have you been to that old castle?’ asked the young girl, pointing with her parasol to the far-gleaming walls of the Château de Chillon. Henry James’s 1878 novella ‘Daisy Miller’ is one of the few classic works of fiction with a plot that revolves around sightseeing. In company with her ‘gentleman friends’, the heroine, American …
‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship …’ I’m not very good at remembering poetry, but these opening lines of John Masefield’s 1902 poem ‘Sea Fever’ have stuck in my mind since I first heard them as a child. …
Sometimes discovery happens inch by inch. That’s been my experience with the NSW village of Marulan, the destination for my traveller’s tryst this week. OK, ‘inch’ is a metaphor. I mean an incremental process where, with slight shifts in attitude, you gradually come to realize that there’s more and more to discover. For years my …
