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Adelaide | 10 things about the Festival City

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There’s lots to love about Adelaide right now, with new hotels, restaurants and boutiques settling in alongside old classics. Susan Skelly checks into the City of Festivals There are 10 annual festivals under Christie Anthoney’s Festivals Adelaide banner. Add to list… February/March: Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe (with its atmospheric playground, the Garden of Unearthly Delights),…

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French river cruises | Viking longships | French countryside | castles and wine

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Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

From the Mekong to the Amazon, Bordeaux to Budapest, river cruises are proving the new “nine-to-five adventure”. Longships are tapping into what seems an insatiable desire for good food, fine wines, providore markets and ancient towns along the waterways of France. Susan Skelly reports from the comfort zone. If proof were needed that river cruising…

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Luxury hotels | Hot accommodation | Sensational suites

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Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

A hotel can be as much a part of the travel experience as the destination, whether it’s the location, interiors, room service, staff or just the way it makes you feel like a jetsetter. These are establishments that have left a good impression at home and abroad on the Excess All Areas travellers Adelaide The Mayfair…

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The pearl experts | Seed capital | Australian luxury

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Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

As an oyster, pinctada maxima can be a little, well, inelegant. But in true ugly duckling to swan style, the treasures it produces signal Australia’s luxury credentials to the world. Susan Skelly goes to sea to witness the surgical genesis of pearly perfection. The seamless amalgam of sea and sky off Eighty Mile Beach on…

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Inside the Cartier archive | Panthers on the prowl | precious jewels

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Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

As Cartier launches the latest iteration of its emblematic panther design, Susan Skelly explores a vast archive that is as much a reflection of 20th-century social history as it is of the premium jeweller’s sparkling gems. It’s an icy, grey, drizzling Saturday morning in Paris and the doors to the Grand Palais have just swung…

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