Whether you are in Dubai for a week or a day, the one experience you must do is head out to the desert and watch the sun set over the sand dunes. On my most recent visit to Dubai our group had the pleasure of getting a little taste of traditional Bedouin life with Arabian Adventures on their Sundowner Dune…
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January in Melbourne can only mean one thing – it’s tennis time! The world’s top tennis players hit the courts, and today they were joined by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob SquarePants, and other Nickelodeon characters and entertainers for some fun on centre court at the Kids Tennis Day Rod Laver Arena Spectacular; A fantastic prequel to the Australian…
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The last thing you expect to encounter in the Mornington Peninsula’s seaside resort town of Rye is a Baroque Cabaret Theatre. It sits on the foreshore comfortably alongside the old-school carnival that has been a Rye Summer fixture since the 50’s, and it’s imposing facade just beckons you to go in and be entertained. “Cabaret Cathedral” is the creation of…
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‘Brought to you by Clarks’ My kid is funny, when she’s at school she wants to be on holidays, but after just a few weeks of Summer holidays, she can’t wait to get back to school again! Emma had a great Prep year and is so keen to be a big grade 1 girl. As a parent I sent her…
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Do you share your birthday with a famous celebrity? I do, turns out Taylor Swift was born on the same day I was! But as fun as that little bit of trivia is, I doubt I’ll ever get to share a Birthday party with ‘Tay Tay’. Taylor Swift is ok I guess, but I was so much more delighted to…
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I promise this post is PG rated, although I do admit that one of the reasons I frequent Massive Wieners is that this hot dog stand’s name is such a deliciously amusing double entendre; almost as delicious as it’s hot dogs! Massive Wieners is an old timey American style hot doggery on Chapel st in Prahran with a simple menu…
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Just mention the word ‘waterslide’ to most kids and their face will light up, so imagine the reaction you’d get if they got to visit one of the biggest and best water parks in the world – Atlantis Aquaventure Dubai! I’m a big kid at heart so when the itinerary came through for my recent trip to Dubai and we…
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“Cast off the shackles of yesterday Shoulder to shoulder into the fray Our daughter’s daughters will adore us And they’ll sing in grateful chorus Well done sister suffragettes” – Mary Poppins, 1965 This post is brought to you by Transmission Films Mary Poppins was my first introduction to the Suffragette movement as a young girl, Mrs. Banks…
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Brought to you by Cats the Musical In 1981, well before the internet LOL cat phenomenon, the world got it’s cute cat fix from a little stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber called Cats, you may have heard of it? It’s hard to believe from my youthful appearance that I was around in the 80’s when Cats first premiered in…
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There is no doubt that Dubai sits in the middle of a desert, the vast ‘beigeness’ of it was the first thing to strike me as our plane circled the airport. From initial impressions it’s easy to assume that lovers of colour, like me, will struggle in such a neutral landscape, but in fact the opposite is true – Not…
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