Book Launch

Courtesy of Robert Rosen, Australia's No 1 (and nicest) snaparazzo, here are a few shots from the launch of The Woman in the Lobby, held (naturally) in the sexy, candle-lit lobby of the Blue Hotel, Sydney. Even though he lives at the end of the wharf next door to the hotel (and in fact wandered by during the evening) we didn't ask Russell Crowe to launch the book, given his reputation with hotel desk clerks and telephones.

High Flying

In Friday's Melbourne Herald-Sun, an article on where High Flyers (like me) like to take their vacations... check it out here.

Lobbying about

I can't put my finger on the moment I developed a passion for hotel lobbies but I suspect it was fuelled by my teenage obsession with Hollywood movies of the 1930s, particularly those of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, or Carole Lombard, which invariably featured scenes set in the grand lobbies of hotels such as New York's Waldorf Astoria. Not surprising, then, that when I first went to New York in 1983 and walked into the lobby of the Plaza Hotel, where I was soon ensconced in a magnificent suite, I felt instantly as if I had come home...

Read all my article on hotel lobbies in The Traveller section of The Age.