Even though it's a smaller city, it sparkles with festive spirit equally, with a Christmas market at every corner, including a remarkable one atop the Hohensalzburg Fortress, a medieval castle.

An evening at the opera, celebrating a decade of wedded bliss with a fancy night out.

While Pauline and Kieran shared heartwarming highlights from their relationship (starting when they became friends as thirteen year olds!), they set the table for a delicious afternoon tea filled with Filipino treats inspired by Pauline's heritage as a proud Filipina-Australian.

When we heard Pauline and her husband Kieran were moving to Melbourne and had secured an apartment in the highly desirable Caringal Flats in Toorak, we jumped at the opportunity to chat with the couple about their recent move and renovation.

To start the year off with a bang, this week’s Home Life Series is a tour of one of Toorak’s iconic coral-coloured Caringal Flats, which freelance writer Pauline Morrissey now calls home.

Think Palm Springs meets Victoria’s spa country, with its bubblegum pink door, neon signs, wood-panelled walls, a crackling fireplace, a servery window connecting the kitchen with the wrap-around deck, and many hung artworks and prints from The Beverly Hills Hotel to a portrait of Elvis.

If you’re going to frolic in flower fields with anyone, do it with Jodi Flockhart who’s as radiant as the blooms growing on the flower fields and kitchen farm of her restaurant, Sault Restaurant Daylesford.

I recently had the pleasure of spending five days on the beautiful island of Siargao with my husband, sister, and mum, a tropical island paradise in our Motherland.

Where coastal coves are aplenty, tapas nights happen on street sides, and the market days of our next base Santanyi, spill out to every last laneway.

For the last ten days of our trip, we’ve headed to the Spanish island of Mallorca, where we will split our time between staying within the mountains and the coast.