For thousands of years, humans in need of healing and restoration have been flocking to hot springs. In ancient Rome, aqueducts channelled geothermal waters into spectacular public pools, where hundreds of people would gather. In late 19th-century France, the aristocracy and bourgeoisie would spend weekends lazing around grand villas in spa towns. Keep reading on Broadsheet.
Filmed over a ten-year period in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Audrey Napanangka (Penelope McDonald, 2022) is a documentary that grew out of an even longer friendship: that shared by director McDonald and Warlpiri artist Audrey Napanangka Martin, who first met in the 1980s in Lajamanu, a remote community of around 600 people of the Warlpiri nation on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert. Keep reading on Metro.
Island hopping is the done thing in Thailand, Fiji and, of course, The Whitsundays. In Sydney, however, its potential passes us by. Sure, we might pop over to Cockatoo Island for the odd spot of glamping, especially when the Biennale rolls around, or crowd onto Clark Island for New Year’s Eve. But catch a ferry or paddle a kayak to one of our isles during the workday week, and you may well find yourself as lonesome as Robinson Crusoe. Keep reading on Concrete Playground.
It might be France’s fourth biggest city, but Toulouse isn’t yet a firm fixture on the tourist trail. Unless you’re an aviation fanatic, that is — all Airbus A380s are born here, so Biggles fans drop by to tour what’s surely one of the world’s biggest assembly lines. But what’s less known about Toulouse is that it’s a mecca for creatives. Keep reading on Concrete Playground.
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