Fiona Carruthers
Fiona Carruthers is the former travel editor of The Australian Financial Review.
Air NZ’s revamped business class makes me proud to be half Kiwi
The refurbished Dreamliner is sweet as, bro – and worth the extra Auckland stop for a great, competitively priced brand-new product.
- Fiona Carruthers
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This town has been given the ‘luxe rural’ treatment. Even my 86-year-old mum was impressed
Mudgee is fiercely protective of its hard-won gold-medal podium position for “top rural town getaway”.
- Fiona Carruthers
The boom in midlife ‘friendsmoons’ and the perfect destination for one
Less than six hours from Sydney, this drop-and-flop hideaway is perfect for relaxation and reconnection.
- Fiona Carruthers
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- Ship reviews
Here’s what happens when you let 140,000 passengers help design a ship
From a hidden 1920s speakeasy to a high-tech theatre and expanded suites, Celebrity Cruises’ fifth Edge-class ship has arrived.
- Fiona Carruthers
New cutting-edge ship, shaped by passengers, takes to the sea
Taylor Swift’s future mother-in-law on board as the latest Edge-class ship launches.
- Fiona Carruthers
Acclaimed photographer’s visual love letter to the frozen continent
Antarctica has owned Richard I’Anson’s heart – and lens – since his first visit to the continent in 2006.
- Fiona Carruthers
‘We’re probably safer than the Louvre’: The country town that’s hosting Andy Warhol
Gallery curator Lizzy Galloway had the Pop Art legend’s soup cans on her artistic shopping list as she played “billionaire for the day”: and she got one.
- Fiona Carruthers
Michelin meals on trains, in-flight sleeping pod rentals: Fancy travel’s next stops
Due for a bucket-list rail journey or cruise, or sky-high pampering? With the latest luxury options, you’ll know you’re going places.
- Fiona Carruthers
‘We left behind our spouses and grown-up children’: The rise of the girls’ trip
Whether they’re travelling alone or on female-only tours, women are packing their bags in unprecedented numbers.
- Fiona Carruthers
Amazing saddles: The leather trade built on the horse’s back
As an owner-operator small-scale sole saddler, John Lordan plies a craft that is becoming increasingly rare.
- Fiona Carruthers