Sydney shoppers are set to snap up some serious bargains at the city’s mega new thrift store where most items are under $10.
Following its enormous success in Melbourne, Savers Hoxton Park has just opened in Prestons in Sydney’s west, 40 minutes from the city centre. It is stacked with more than 100,000 pre-loved treasures at unbelievably low prices.
There are hidden gems at every turn – from high-end clothing items and accessories to slick homewares, appliances, school supplies and
The most beautiful villages in the UK have been named – and ranked – with the prize for the most picturesque going to a fishing townlet with ‘stunning scenery everywhere’.
So reveals Big 7 Travel, which asked some of the UK’s leading travel photographers to vote for the nation’s most beautiful villages and then used their responses to compile the list.
From coastal communities with breathtaking vistas to countryside boltholes with cobbled streets and charming stone houses, the 20-strong ranking
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These beaches may prompt a cry of ‘shell yeah!’
They all feature in eye-catching new Lonely Planet book ‘100 of the World’s Most Incredible Beaches‘.
Scroll down and you’ll see that the title of the tome is no exaggeration – they’re all stunning.
Five beaches in the British Isles make the cut, alongside gems in the Caribbean, Greece, Hawaii, the Seychelles, Cape Town and Australia.
Lonely Planet says in the introduction to the ravishing compendium: ‘Discover
Fashion editor Suzy Menkes recently called the Princess of Wales’ use of the royal jewellery collection a ‘disappointment’, bemoaning that she wears its pieces only ‘when she absolutely has to’.
But Kate raiding the royal vault solely for occasions such as state banquets is a considered move.
Her love of demi-fine and even costume jewellery — something previous royals would never wear — is all down to the ‘Kate effect’.
Whatever the Princess is snapped wearing flies off the shelves,
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You’d think that a science-fiction adventure featuring the “Star Wars” alums Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac, as well as Portman’s “Thor” co-star Tessa Thompson, would have been a giant hit. But Paramount Pictures seemed baffled by how to market a sci-fi picture about ideas and creeping dread (rather then lasers and intergalactic dogfights), dumping it onto Netflix overseas and into theaters with a shrug in the United States. They fear what they don’t understand;
Dramatic waterfalls, mysterious ruins, lost villages, breathtaking beaches, enchanting churches and remote valleys.
Welcome to North East England, as mapped out by an amazing new guidebook to the area.
Wild Guide North East England (Wild Things Publishing) is billed as an ‘inspiring travel compendium’ that reveals the region’s ‘most exciting, hidden gems’, courtesy of mesmerising photography, detailed maps – and even GPS co-ordinates.
Author Sarah Banks writes in the introduction: ‘If you yearn for the wilderness, then the North East
As days shorten and we nervously eye our thermostats, over in St Lucia the Caribbean sun still bathes the beaches in glorious heat. And beyond the sand, the island is a joy to explore with its soaring volcanic peaks and a rainforest bursting with colourful wildlife, as well as lively bars, restaurants and a flourishing cultural scene.
Yet many visitors who don’t look beyond the big all-inclusive resorts miss out on the rich variety that St Lucia offers.
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You won’t find a single tourist trap in this book – only wonders of the planet ‘that will come to define your bucket list’.
Beautifully illustrated with 180 photographs, Hidden Places – From Secret Shores to Sacred Shrines by Claudia Martin, published by Amber Books, spotlights ‘hidden treasures and secret places’ to discover around the globe.
In the introduction to the book, Martin writes: ‘A world away from the museums of Paris, the skyscrapers of New York or the beaches
