Japanese tradition and Australian produce join forces at a full-scale sake brewery in Sydney’s outskirts. Rob Grant goes rice spirit sipping in the suburbs.
In the realm of improbable tasks, exporting Australian sake to Japan would seem to rank alongside the proverbial “selling ice to the Eskimos”. Yet the expert brewers at Sun Masamune in Penrith, western Sydney, do exactly this and invite any curious visitors to see how...
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Two very different travellers, Megan and Rob, visit Melbourne for two very different weekends.
Rob - this Sydney romantic whisks his fiancé off to Melbourne to taste the best of the culture capital’s European cuisine and architecture.
MIDDAY IN PARIS
On a sunny, clear blue-sky afternoon, a stroll through Melbourne’s “Paris End” seems like a good place to start. The elegant buildings, tree-lined pavements and high-end fashion stores of Collins Street, between Russell Street and Spring Street in Melbourne city, do create a Parisian feel of sorts. But it’s only window shopping for me...
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