Des Houghton

The airline ticket price war heated up today when Qantas announced it had discounted over one million seats to more than 60 destinations around Australia.

Australia has a new icon wine, and I was one of the first in the world to taste it.

London has a stunning new inner-city tourist lookout on top of a “vertical village” known as 22 Bishopsgate in the city.

The spirit world has been turned upside down by two entrepreneurial young Dublin brothers who make “liquid golden” Irish-Japanese whiskeys with flavours of lychee and gingerbread biscuits dunked in golden syrup.

It seems the blokey world of winemaking has been relegated to the past with women capturing the major prizes in this year's Australian wine awards.

Qantas is offering more than one million discounted fares across its domestic network for a week.

Greece was chockers last week. I know, because I was one of the 10,000 tourists who stepped ashore on Instagram Island, the place I previously remembered as Santorini.