Evokes: Pints of lager sipped on a roof at sunset
Fantasy: Sitting outside this 1913 gem in a halter dress on a roasting-hot Christmas day while overstimulated, under-clothed tourists bicker lazily over nothing whatsoever. (I'm finishing Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country" and look forward to seeing Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" next week, so it is all-Oz day here.)


Image: The Australian Hotel