Susan Kurosawa

Sep 6, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Susan Kurosawa

My late father loved the saying “as snug as a bug in a rug” on the (exactly) 13 occasions our family went camping in deepest, dampest England. There would be Beatrix Potter stories read aloud to me by torchlight as we curled up in our sleeping bags. I would lie awake for hours, anticipating the exciting likelihood of badgers in the hedgerows. If I did ever spy one, I hoped fervently that it would be wearing a waistcoat.

Sep 2, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Susan Kurosawa

Ernest Hemingway wrote with admirable economy about Africa but for many visitors the experience can be so extraordinary that either words fail to describe what amounts to a transformation or there’s an impulse to chatter away like baboons. Hemingway was shooting, of course, while contemporary tourists are snapping, which is a fine and proper evolution. His famous line to describe a new day dawning? “I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.” Says it all, to be frank.

Aug 4, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Susan Kurosawa

August 5, 2023 Novels, memoirs, films and TV series provide cultural context to enrich the visitor experience in Japan. Get started with the following suggestions. A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO JAPAN by Pico Iyer Subtitled “observations and provocations”, the incomparable Pico Iyer, who has lived in Nara with his Japanese wife for more than 30 years, demystifies his adopted home, and offers wry insights.

Jul 31, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Susan Kurosawa

August 1, 2023 Chef, restaurateur and Qantas creative director of food, beverage and service, Neil Perry, is leading our little group on an eating tour of New York. It’s certain we won’t need to take packed lunches but it’s unclear how we can cover much territory in just a few hours. I’m hoping Little Italy is on the agenda, and the prospect of indecently large amounts of gelato.

Jul 30, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Susan Kurosawa

July 31, 2023 It’s one of the golden rules of a house-party holiday that the organiser scores the best bedroom. Those who follow get dibs according to order of arrival and latecomers must make do with whatever is left, even if it’s a set of bunks with Barbie bed linen. Simply put, it can be fraught. There is no such roulette at The Residence at Winmark Wines in the Broke Fordwich sub-region of the NSW Hunter Valley.