Ben Groundwater
Travel columnist at Sun Herald
Columnist at Traveller
Writer, traveller, https://t.co/BeMiSXntPj columnist, host of the "Flight of Fancy" podcast, author of “Neon Wonderland”, out soon
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1 week ago |
smh.com.au | Ben Groundwater
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Imagine if it wasn’t a chore – imagine if going to the airport was a joy, a remarkable travel experience in itself, a pleasure from start to finish. That’s the dream for travellers, though for the most part, it unfortunately remains one. The world’s airports are notoriously stressful, frustrating places where queues are long and prices are high, flights are delayed and baggage is lost.
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1 week ago |
stuff.co.nz | Ben Groundwater
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1 week ago |
smh.com.au | Ben Groundwater
Travel writer May 28, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Palace Hotel Tokyo has all the facilities you would expect from a luxury, five-star hotel. There are eight very good restaurants on site; four bars, including Royal Bar, one of my favourite purveyors of fine cocktails in the city, if not the world. There’s a high-end pastry shop. There are artisanal craft stores.
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1 week ago |
smh.com.au | Ben Groundwater
Plate up What is the next big thing in food? What is the future of cuisine? What will we all be eating in 10 years’ time that might come as a surprise? For the answer to the future, perhaps we need to look to the past. Because one of the experts’ touted sources of sustainable future nourishment in Australia is insects such as grasshoppers and crickets, which the CSIRO predicts could be a $4 billion industry in Australia by 2030.
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1 week ago |
stuff.co.nz | Ben Groundwater
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I once interviewed @benleemusic at a fancy hotel in Brisbane and he jumped on the grand piano and played “Kickstart My Heart” by Mötley Crüe. Proper legend.
I once interviewed Ben Lee face to face for street press and we ended up in the Courier Mail gossip pages as burgeoning gay lovers as he threw his leg over the bench to face me. 🤷🏻♂️
Played futsal last night and saw multiple groups of men standing around talking about women’s football, some even crowded around mobile phones watching the game. There’s a monumental shift taking place before our eyes right now #Matildas
This is a great point I hadn’t even considered. How much does a modern fine-dining restaurant actually say about a destination? Have a look at the 50 Best entrants from around the world, and the plates all look the same
100% feeling this piece from @bengroundwater. Fine-dining was once synonymous with travel, but it's starting to become antithetical to it, as the focus of fine dining restaurants becomes more about the chef and less about the place. https://t.co/gJL2rxsCOb
