Spring, Shop 1, 65 Macleay Street, entrance on Challis Avenue, Potts Point, Sydney (00 61 2 9331 0190)The Kirketon When the Kirketon, a boutique hotel, opened earlier this year, it was greeted with breathless coverage in style magazines around the world. A Sydney institution, people go to desperate lengths to be part of the scene here. It seems to pretend that it's an untouched gem from the Swinging Sixties - it's not. But who cares when you can sit in the Orbit Bar, sip cocktails and watch the city panorama gently pass before you? Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see up to 80km away. The Mod-Oz cooking offers mains such as barramundi with buttered Savoy cabbage and thyme, roasted milk- fed veal cutlets with garlic mash, and...


"You just specify where you want delivery." Eight million dollars, I replied, was rather more than I had budgeted for this trip. "OK, I cannot change the price, but I give you whichever kind of rocket attachments you like, for free, a special gift...

Characterful as these conversions can be, they are no longer extraordinary, and those searching for a property that stands out from the rest are now casting even wider in their search for the novel Nor is the quest restricted to an adventurous few. The...

Qantas felt this term, borrowed from the shipping industry, was a little archaic. As we sat on the runway at Jakarta, a raucous group of Australians - who I suspect had not declined too many offers of free drinks - decided to liven things up. When the...

Renowned tightwad that I am, I have to admit that it is money well spent when the kids are moaning about having to go home and are dragging me to go and visit another gallery.Completed in 1540 with tennis courts, gardens, a chapel, Great Hall and an...

If you can get there on a Friday, on a weekend after the French schools have gone back in early January, the chances are you will be able to knock off all the main rides - Big Thunder Mountain, The Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted House, Peter Pan,...

I'm not sure how my body will hold up, but in my head I'm as fresh as a 20-year-old."Having started as a stand-off, where he won 22 of his 52 caps, the 14st 7lb Mesnel now specialises at centre, and his French- record partnership with Philippe Sella will...

Leeson was last seen checking out of the Regent Hotel in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 24 hours before the magnitude of the losses became public.Then there was Peter Kerry, the sullen 14-year-old British boy who evaded the eye of...

One of the great bonuses of this European debate is that we are starting to get past the pious hypocrisies of party unity and delve into real arguments.That leaves the constitutional matter Major, remarkably, described it as dancing on a pinhead Well,...

"We will see a different Chelsea from what we saw here tonight," the Bruges coach, Hugo Broos, said "They will have to take risks. They played nearly all the game in defence and one goal is a small reward for all the chances we had."That was in no small...

One of those was a member of the complaints investigation team looking into the shooting. A number of other witnesses have claimed that the officer was standing clear of the car when the shots were fired. No one has suggested that the victim was armed.The...

However, events in Bruges exposed divisions between Britain's two main supporters' organisations.Several Chelsea followers claimed they were arbitrarily picked off the streets of Bruges. "When I see what's happened in other countries, I think we had a big...

The eating area is at the back of the room, where, for some reason, the shrill piped music seems loudest. Here one eats, and studies the imitation ducks floating in the three tiered fountain topped by a cherub Approx £5. Open 9am-3am...

Even though not very green, it is bordered by some splendid buildings. Around the corner, for instance, is the well where medieval clerks once performed plays - hence the name 'Clerk's Well' or Clerkenwell. At the bottom end is the old Georgian Sessions...

More unfairly, the situation didn't improve with The Absence of War (9pm BBC2). Centring on Labour Party preparations for a general election, Hare had unprecedented access to Kinnock's last campaign and the resulting play didn't please everyone at...

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