By Rama Gaind.
Escape to this tiny Australian island in the South Pacific Ocean for the Taste Norfolk Island Food Festival from 26-30 November 2018.
Norfolk Island, a tiny Australian island in the South Pacific Ocean, has long been regarded as a wonderful place to holiday with family and friends or escape to with a loved one.
On of the best times to visit is to attend the Taste Norfolk Island Food Festival, which is back from 26-30 November 2018. It will once again be showcasing magnificent locally grown, fresh, organic produce presented by a talented line-up of chefs.
Norfolk Island is a food lover’s destination boasting 20-plus eating out places presenting the freshest of fish, succulent beef and pork, a selection of in-season fruit and vegetables picked daily and boutique products including artisan cheese and honey, and many more paddock-to-plate experiences.
Thanksgiving Day activities are also being held over from the week prior’s official day so it can be celebrated during this popular annual Festival. Norfolk Island remains one of the few places outside the US to mark this special day, which dates back to when American whalers were living on the island.
Oxley Travel has announced a seven-night Taste Norfolk Island package priced from:
- $2,079 per person twin share ex-Sydney (23-30 November, 25 November-2 December or 26 November-3 December)
- $2,039 per person twin share ex-Brisbane (24 November-1 December)
The Taste Norfolk Island Food Festival next month will once again showcase magnificent locally grown, fresh, organic produce presented by a talented line-up of chefs. Attend the Taste Norfolk Island Food Festival from 26-30 November 2018.
Package inclusions are:
- Return flights with Air New Zealand
- Return island airport transfers
- 7 nights’ accommodation at Poinciana Cottages
- 7 days’ car hire including insurance
- Half-day island tour
- Refreshments at Norfolk Island Airport on departure
- Monday, 26 November – welcome cocktail party: 4.30pm-7.30pm
- Tuesday, 27 November – Taste Norfolk’s Bounty Festival Night: 5.30pm – 11.30pm
- Wednesday, 28 November – Thanksgiving Day luncheon: 12.30pm
- Thursday, 29 November – celebration dinner, 5.30pm
- Taste Norfolk Island Gift Pack
- 2 x complimentary Festival options (Slick & Sons Sausage Making, The Forager Sour Dough Workshop, Culinary Journey, Blue Kingfisher, The Barn or Death By Chocolate
- (Additional options can be purchased at $95 per person per tour)
In addition to fabulous culinary experiences, countless activities include swimming, fishing, snorkelling, kayaking, surfing, cycling and bushwalking. There are glass- bottom boat tours and ocean trips to Phillip Island, and attractions including Fletcher’s Mutiny Cyclorama. A further attraction of historical significance is the World Heritage-listed Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (with a ruined British penal colony), the oldest of the 11Australian penal colonies.
At first glance, it’s hard to believe that vibrant Norfolk Island could have a dark past. Yet during the 19th century, the now-peaceful Australian retreat was a convict colony, home to criminals who’d been banished into exile. Today, the archaeological remains of the penal colony have UNESCO World Heritage status and are revered for their historical significance. You can visit the settlement’s remains, an eerie yet beautiful collection that includes a jail, a cemetery, lumbar yard and salt house.
Norfolk Island is defined by pine trees and jagged cliffs. Sandy beaches include Emily Bay, with reef-protected waters. Norfolk Island National Park offers views over palm forests from Mt. Pitt. In the capital Kingston, the Norfolk Island Museum traces the island’s colourful past.
The Library Koh Samui: secret pool villas offer
Norfolk Island is a food lover’s destination boasting not only many places to eat, but also the freshest of produce, a selection of in-season fruit and vegetables and boutique products including artisan cheese and honey, and many more paddock-to-plate experiences.
The Library in Koh Samui, Thailand, is offering special discounts on its best available rates (BAR) for bookings received by 20 October 2018 for guest stays in the stunning new secret pool villas until 20 December 2018.
The Library’s advance purchase promotion for stays during this offer period in the secret pool villas includes 20% off BAR for 60 days’ advance booking, 15% off BAR for 45 days’ advance booking and 10% off BAR for 30 days’ advance booking. Also included are round-trip Samui Airport transfers for stays of three or four nights and an additional dinner for two people at either The Page or The Gallery for stays of a minimum five nights.
The spacious one-bedroom secret pool villas feature a custom-made 3m-wide bed, a dedicated entertainment space, full dining area with pantry, spacious jacuzzi bathtub, saltwater swimming pool, oversized tandem rain shower and two walk-in closets.
The two-bedroom secret pool villas offer the exclusivity of a private home, with spacious comfort for hosting two couples travelling together or a group of friends. In addition to an expansive 10-metre-long saltwater swimming pool, and equally roomy triple king-size beds, these villas also feature a private gym equipped with a treadmill machine and body weights.
A member of Design Hotels, The Library has unveiled two adults-only villas. The editor, a luxurious villa, will be geared towards the working creative and the writer, a singular, expansive unit, will feature beach frontage and access, dedicated living and dining spaces, a personal library, private gym, outdoor cinema, upper floor terrace with a spectacular sea view and a saltwater swimming pool.
Elegant surrounds
Against the seductive backdrop of Koh Samui’s Chaweng Beach, The Library is offering special discounts on its best available rates for bookings received by 20 October 2018. Stays in the stunning new secret pool villas are until 20 December 2018.
Against the seductive backdrop of Koh Samui’s Chaweng Beach, The Library reads like an elegant monograph – a beachfront hotel that invites one to sit with a book in quiet contemplation while also weaving its own story of natural beauty and unmatched luxury. With just 46 studios, suites and pool villas spread over 12,800 square meters of land, this minimalist resort provides ample space to read, roam, and reflect.
It’s described as a ‘narrative in nature’, with incredible architecture. Geometrically- shaped buildings are scattered across an expansive lawn, with structural highlights including a red-bottomed swimming pool and a glass-encased gym.
Structure at a hotel is everything. Thus, the Library buildings have been constructed and laid out in such a way as to let life’s story unfold in its natural, most dramatic way. From The Page restaurant holding fort on the beachfront, to the 270-degree sea views from the glass-enclosed gym, The Library ‘bridges the chasm between nature and modern life’. It contains an assortment of interesting chapters, enticing guests to learn to live harmoniously with nature.
Against the seductive backdrop of Koh Samui’s Chaweng Beach, The Library reads like an elegant monograph. Owned by Samui native Kasemtham Sornsong and created with designer Tirawan Songsawat, the beachfront hotel—an elegant minimalist structure—is a refreshing and subtle play on the notion of the book.
DETAILS BOX
Taste Norfolk Island Food Festival
26-30 November 2018
T: 1800 671 546
The Library, Koh Samui, secret pool villas offer
