Word of Mouth Recommendations

These are some of our favourite home grown businesses. Please visit their sites and stores and if you agree with our selection pass it on. Word of mouth recommendations are a best way to support the businesses you love.

Melbourne

Tours: Melbourne is a city of so many secrets and secret places that even locals need an expert to guide them around and no one is better able to accomplish that than Fiona Sweetman of Hidden Secrets Tours.

Manicures & Pedicures: For the slickest nails in town and some of the best pampering visit the French Pink salon at The Galleria.

Bags & Satchels: Crumpler is the global bag brand that started life in Melbourne supplying bicycle couriers. Visit the custom design shop in Fitzroy to create an original.

Gift Suggestion: Third Drawer Down makes art and napery of the humble tea towel and napkin. Commissioning artists from around the world to create limited edition design. These make a great gift.


General

Travel Accessories: Visit Ciao Bella Travel before jetting off and pick up stylish travel accessories and guides like ours for instance.

Cool Stuff: For not just cool stuff, but also nostalgic stuff and legendary t-shirts you can't go past REMO General Store. Remo's got all your gift giving sorted on one site and you won't truly be ready for 2008 until you've got yourself a copy of the Printed Thing - the book has been completely reinvented.

Free Thinking Lessons: Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson started the School of Thinking in 1979 with Edward de Bono. Good thinking doesn't come naturally. The online training is designed to help each trainee to become a skilled thinker through daily practice in speed thinking, creative thinking, positive thinking, lateral thinking and new brain software.

Extreme Beers: Article from the New York Times.

Graydon Carter Buying Monkey Bar: Article from the New York Times.