It’s pretty hard to find a local who doesn’t have a soft spot for Manly. Apart from the lucky few who call it home, for the rest of us the laid-back vibe, the great pubs, tasty eats and chilled-out “no need to dress up in your best Bondi outfit” beach make it a pretty hard place to beat for a laid back day trip somewhere beachy. Sure, the parking might suck, but surely the Ferry... 

We have a reputation here in Australia of all knowing how to surf. (That, and of course, knowing how to ride a kangaroo and avoid the grizzly fate of a vicious Drop Bear attack after dark.) But realistically, how many of us coast-dwellers actually know how to surf? Out of all the surfers I know, at least 80% of them were (or are) on some kind of overseas working visa, and the remaining handful either... 

Bar a few exceptions, practically everybody loves : 1. A good weekend away somewhere quiet surrounded by nature. 2. Cheese. It makes sense that there must be a fairly substantial combination of the two somewhere nearby – a weekend away which is all about cheese, and sure enough : Dreamcatcher Lodge. On the surface they might appear to just be another quiet B&B over toward Picton (and hour... 

We here at Sydnerati have already covered the where’s and how’s of surviving a zombie apocalypse through the fine art of Archery, but what if you feel you need a more brutal, immediate, melee-style method of stopping the attacking horde in its tracks? The Sydney Stage Combat School may indeed be your ticket to freedom and safety. (Sure, they may say “Stage” there in the title,... 

Most people claim they’ll do it one day, or at least they think it’d be cool, but how many people do you know that have actually been skydiving? It seems to be one of those activities that sounds doable in theory, but most people totally chicken out of moving to the next step, of actually getting a couple of people together and just going out and doing it one weekend. There’s... 

If you’ve ever had dreams of getting into the movie business, living in this town, there’s really no excuse not to just do it. So much stuff gets made here, everything from the lowest/no-budget indy shorts through to summer-tentpole Hollywood epics, with a huge pool of talent here locally in all fields in production, in front of and behind the camera, and all the other jobs that go on in...