My beach house near Sydney, Australia is available for holiday rentals!!

Location:
Mollymook – a dinky little beach town, close to Ulladulla, 3 hour drive south of Sydney.

Mollymook Features:
Spectacular beach with rock pools & soaring cliffs. Excellent swimming & surf conditions all year round. Surf life saving club & patrol in Summertime.
Seasonal visits from dolphins & whales!!
Beach, rock & bush walks.
The 2 famous Mollymook golf courses - one with sea spray & ocean views, the other nestled in lush green forest.
The infamous Mollymook Golf Club bar & restaurant with unrivaled beach & ocean views.
Award winning Bannisters cliff top hotel, day spa, cocktail bar & Rick Stein seafood restaurant.
Ulladulla, a 5 minute drive from Mollymook is the local main town with a small, picturesque harbour, shopping, restaurants, fresh seafood, brilliant Australian wines, harbourside flea market, cinemas, post office, library, swimming pools & tourist information center.
Milton, also a 5 minute drive from Mollymook is a historic village with antique shops, craft markets, galleries, cafes & a theatre.

South Coast Weather:
Summer: December – February. Hot & dry.
Winter: June – August. Mild.
Spring & Autumn: Changeable days, fresh crisp air.

The Blue House:
A classic Australian beach holiday home, modernized with 3 bedrooms (sleeping 6 total), 2 bathrooms, sunny, polished wood floor living / dining room, front balcony for breakfast with morning birdsong, large shady back garden for reading under the trees, sunset cocktails & BBQ.
The Blue House is a 5 minute walk from the beach on a quiet sloping street protected from the sea spray but with a cool breeze every afternoon.
And you should see those Southern Hemisphere Milky Way stars at night!!

Holiday Rentals:
The Blue House is available all year round for weekend, weekly or long term holiday rentals.
Prices vary depending on season. December – February is Summertime peak.
Have a chilled out beach break, a golfing weekend or stay for a season & write your book!!
Rental enquiries - please contact Property Management South Coast
Email info@pmsouthcoast.com.au
www.pmsouthcoast.com.au

A rapturous time was had by all at Elizabeth Hildebrand’s Rapturous party - with Glass Magazine, glass sculptor Pablo Posada Pernikoff’s, opera singer Matthieu Sachot, DJ Kaori Lady Something Different & me..

On Sunday 2010.6.20 the annual Short Shorts Film Festival Awards ceremony was held at the great hall in the grounds of Meiji Shrine, Harajuku, Tokyo. There were screenings of some of the best films from this year’s festival & of course winners (& not!!) in various awards categories. An interesting & slightly traumatic moment for some of the young Japanese film makers when the best Japanese short film award was not presented to anyone as the panel of judges unanimously agreed that the quality of this year’s entrants were not up to festival quality. So budding film makers in Japan this is your chance to show the world your talent for next year’s festival!!
See more at www.shortshorts.org

Short Shorts Film Festival 2010 Awards ceremony invitation.

At the entrance.

Opening ceremony taiko drumming performance.

More big loud drumming!!

One of the judging panels.

Japanese film director explains why there is no winner for this year’s Japanese short film category.

A winner in one of the international divisions.

It was a busy Tokyo Thursday night 2010.6.17 as I also visited one of my favourite spots in Jingumae - the Paul Smith Space for the gallery floor launch of The Royal Ballet Portraits exhibition. Spectacular photographs taken by Sir Paul Smith (what can’t he do??) of members of the British Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London are now on display.
I’ll be interviewing some of the 100 (!!) dancers who are currently in Japan for performances - more on my website in the next few days.
In the meantime see the exhibition at the Paul Smith Space until Tuesday 2010.7.6
More info at www.paulsmith.co.jp

Paul Smith Space gallery & Royal Ballet Portraits exhibition.

One of the Royal Ballet portraits by Paul Smith.

If only I’d kept up my ballet classes when I was a kid..

Even the catering waiter’s trays were wearing tutu’s!!

Oh it’s those gorgeous gals about town again - Nora, Liane, Yumi & Elizabeth.

Elizabeth & Mairi.

Wonky heads after champagne - Guy with Royal Ballet dancer Edward Watson.

There I was in the luxury Sunroser Boutique in Akaksaka opposite the New Otani Hotel on Thursday 2010.6.17 surrounded by gorgeous fashion & people - all there to remember there’s more to this life than our superficial wants. We were there to witness the Japan launch of the Valentino T-shirts designed especially to be sold & raise funds for the Haiti earthquake (remember that one??!!) thankfully some people do.
Here’s the T-shirt designed by Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. All proceeds will be donated to the Francesca Rava Foundation to lend medical support to those in the devastated Caribbean country.

And here are some people who were out for the night..

Lovely ladies - Liane, Elizabeth & Yumi.

With Elizabeth Hildebrand, artist Pablo Posada Pernikoff & Liane White.

I experienced food, food & more glorious food, plus booze & loads of very happy foodie people at the renewal launch of the fabulous basement food hall at Isetan flagship department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo on Wednesday 2010.6.9.
From July 7 2010 you’ll be able to purchase from the food hall on line at www.isetan.co.jp/foods

Cheers to Isetan food hall!!

A gentleman from the Isetan food hall liquor department sharing with me the finest whisky from Japan - kanpai!!
Hang on - I’m in the food hall but why are the pics of me only with booze!!?? Blame Sayoko the photographer!!

I rediscovered this article published in The Japan Times in October 2005 asking foreigners in Japan to discuss their favourite Japanese books. One of the books I mentioned is Kin Shiotani’s - A Little Book For People With Rich Imaginations.
Click here to read the original article www.japantimes.co.jp

Kin Shiotani illustration. Kin Shiotani writes, illustrates & photographs his travels & thoughts. His work is whimsical, quirky, insightful, funny. See his website www.kinshio.com

The weather in Tokyo this week has been superb & just as summer is about to swing into town so does the Big Beach Festival!!
Saturday 2010.6.5 at the (big) beach near Makuhari Messe the all day/night event features The Chemical Brothers DJ set, Sasha, Groove Armada & way more..
AND thanks to Alife the event organizers I have a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky Guy Perryman Black Card Member!!
Email by midnight Thursday 2010.6.3 - write your full name, postal address, email address & Black Card number for your chance to win the tix. Please note only the winner will be emailed the result at 9am Friday 2010.6.4.
For full event details check the website www.bigbeach-fes.com

Thankyou Dunhill for the fabulous MTV Music Video Awards after party at 2 Rooms, Aoyama, Tokyo on Saturday 2010.5.29.

With the lovely Elizabeth Hildebrand at the MTV Music Video Awards after party supported by Dunhill.

In the fashion hub of Tokyo’s Harajuku I met some fun people & had a lot of laughs with the super friendly staff at the launch of the True Religion jeans store on Friday 2010.5.21.
Check their website for more www.truereligionbrandjeans.com

With True Religion Japan Manager Kent Suzuki.

And about to try on a pair of rather fab True Religion jeans (thank god they’ve got black!!).