I don't normally plug or gush about high-end hotels while traveling, but this trip to Sydney I decided to forgo the adventurous hostel or even the corporate 5-star house and do the hip boutique thing for 6 nights. Highly recommended by all Sydney-siders, The Establishment in Sydney's CBD (Central Business District) is probably the most "pimped-out" hotel I have stayed at. You pay for serious dark and chic minimalist design, along with no-waiting, no-cover access to its in-house trendy bars/restaurants such as Establishment Bar, Hemmesphere, Tank, Sushi-e, to name a few. Can you say “c [View Full Entry]

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For each person there are certain things that are life “must-do’s” - you know, The List. For me, diving the Great Barrier Reef is on there. This Christmas Eve and Day for me were spent across the world far away, in the land down under. There was no snow, there was no family, there was no cold. Instead of drinking eggnog and hot chocolate around fireplaces after trudging through snow in scarves and thick gloves, I was diving sans wetsuit in 29 degrees C waters chasing after sharks and holding inflated pufferfish in my hands in blasting heat in the tropics [View Full Entry]

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