AUSTRALIAN

Fall in love with Australia - story by story, again and again.

Featured Destinations: Mount Mulligan • Fraser Island • Kangaroo Island • Adelaide • Darwin • Alice Springs • Uluru • Ningaloo Reef • Wilpena Pound • Karijini National Park • Cape to Cape • Hobart • Scenic Rim Trail • Kimberley • Cradle Mountain • Port Fairy • Daylesford • Larapinta Trail

Splendid and suave, Switzerland - with its mountains, lakes and palatial hotels - is remarkably good for the soul. 

Steeped in history, Switzerland is both lavish and refined - chocolate-box perfection guaranteed to surprise. It is a playground, refuge and wonderland. A hideaway and delight. And amongst these pages are hints of all it has to offer. There are tales of intrigue and adventure, romance and the sublime - of towns where time is kept and paused, cantons that charm, literary escapades, wilderness, trains and alpine fare that is very fine indeed.

Featuring Neuchâtel | Lausanne | Geneva | Gstaad | Mürren | Zürich | St. Gallen | Bad Ragaz | St. Moritz | Ascona | Lugano | Bern | Great St. Bernard Pass | Bürgenstock | Scuol | The Orient Express

An ode to slow travel, splendour and sun. Que viva España.

For this magazine, Lodestar's contributors have descended into caves in the name of cheese, gone in search of volcanoes, wandered ancient pilgrim paths, ridden horses into the sunset, been enthralled by architecture, cooked the way their grandparents did and penned odes to lace. They have explored places that come with meaning.

Some destinations are ‘home’, others are steeped in memory, and a few are being discovered for the very first time, the siren’s call impossible to resist. You can read this zest in their words and see the ardour in their images, because when someone creates with love and respect you feel it. You’re there with them. This is how  you discover and are reacquainted with Spain - through the eyes of others.

Featured destinations: Ibiza, Tarifa, Oviedo, Toledo, Granada, Segovia, Seville, Valencia, Lanzarote, Montserrat, Formentera, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela

Awash with castles and cork, sunshine and salt, Portugal is a wonder, a grande dame and muse, a place to seek solace and beauty.

Here, there are island oases, pilgrimage trails, artisans and waves - azulejos and pastéis de nata - and one should feast on all that they can; climb mountains, sip Port, meander through markets, swim, savour and walk into wilderness. Layered in history, there is a sublime sense of melancholy - an awareness of the things that have passed, matched by awe of all that remains. Warmth, colour, tradition and light. In Portugal you have time, space and

Within these pages you'll find all things archetypically French, from snow-covered chalets, mighty châteaux and fromage, to every variety of grape-based tipples a connoisseur could desire.

But you’ll also encounter the unexpected - food-inspired jaunts through the Pyrénées-Orientales, journeys across the Alps in the footsteps of literary giants and a coastal road trip that pays homage to the elegance of yesteryear.

This is a country of jasmine harvests, market splendour,

Parisian decadence, fairy tale islands and adventure; a place to chase light and history and appreciate the marvels of terroir and creative daring.

Full of the singular, serendipitous and spectacular, France, je t’aime.