Lucille Wong

  • Adelaide – what’s with all the pop-ups?

    Adelaide – what’s with all the pop-ups?

    It’s been hard to write a travel blog without doing much travelling. Since Japan (twice) and Hong Kong last year, I’ve been golden handcuffed to my desk job so there have been no more international trips. There have been however, a few domestic trips for business and pleasure. The last trip for pleasure was an exciting…

  • Summer means tennis

    Summer means tennis

    The Australian Open is one of my favourite times of the year. Held in my hometown of Melbourne every January, the tennis means summer days and long, lazy nights. I first went to the tennis with my girlfriends at the ripe old age of 16. It was school holidays. Back then, a Ground Pass of…

  • Camping on the Murray

    Camping on the Murray

    For New Year’s Eve 2013, my friends and I set out to Tocumwal, a three-hour drive north of Melbourne. Toks is on the Victorian/New South Wales border. The rural town is on the bank of the mighty Murray River. The main attraction is of course, the river. Camping on the river is free. And river…

  • Abbotsford Convent: a microcosm of Adam Bandt’s Melbourne

    If you haven’t heard, the Greens’ candidate Adam Bandt has recently won a second term in his electorate of Melbourne. He did so by beating the two major parties who ganged up on him by passing preferences to each other. Adam beat them both, proving that the Greens’ spirit of social inclusion and sustainable living…

  • Sydney gets a facelift

    Oh Sydney – your harbour and your beaches are devastatingly beautiful, your weather is so kind and you are as multicultural as ever. But there is one thing: your city centre is a bit of a hole. And it isn’t just me saying so. Your council knows it too because it has injected millions into…

  • Best and worst yum cha in Melbourne (as well as one pick in Sydney)

    I was born in Hong Kong and I moved to Melbourne when I was eight years old. I don’t speak much Cantonese but I’m fluent in yum cha. When it comes to choosing a yum cha restaurant, this is what I look for: Dumplings must be pushed around in a trolley, table service is not…