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Winter Weather Warning: Booking a Roof Inspection to Secure Your Insurance Coverage
As a homeowner, you prioritise the safety and security of your home and loved ones. You've invested time, effort, and money to create a haven that offers protection from the elements. However, when it comes to insurance coverage for your home, the condition of your...
Want to know where to find the best Illawarra Breweries?
In an effort to promote some of our favourite Illawarra breweries, we’ve had to put in the hard yards and sample some of the best brews the region has to offer. We can confidently report that these locally produced ales are up there with any of the top craft beers you...
Where to get coffee on Campus at UOW
So you've just started your first session at UOW and you've realised you dont know the most vital piece of information you could ever need to know while studying or pulling an all-nighter to get that assignment done on time…where to get good coffee on campus. Fear...
Kate Grarock’s solo hiking adventures have landed her on Alone Australia.
Dr Kate Grarock is a passionate environmentalist, ecologist and mum. In her spare time she shares her love of hiking and packrafting on her popular YouTube channel. Though not originally from the Illawarra, Kate attended university in Wollongong and has developed many...
Illawarra Food Trucks Expand, Bringing New Tastes and Experiences to the Region
What is it about food trucks that we love so much? Growing in popularity in recent years, we are seeing more and more options for different cuisines at various localities around Wollongong and surrounding suburbs. Once upon a time, mobile food vendors were solely the...
Dress for Success Illawarra: the volunteers empowering women
Dress for Success Sydney is a registered charity that helps women become more employable by providing professional clothing, coaching and access to career development tools as well as a network of support to help women to become financially independent. The Illawarra...
The man behind Da Orlando’s Italian restaurant in Wollongong
Orlando Luciani is the man behind his namesake - a popular Italian restaurant in Wollongong, Da Orlando’s. Owning his own restaurant has been quite a journey... from a village on the Italian coast, to washing dishes in London and barely speaking English - to where he...
How Albion Bark Lodge became the Gold Standard for Doggy Daycare in the Illawarra
I love the story of how Albion Bark Lodge came into existence. Owner and operator Sarah Macpherson was feeling disenchanted and unhappy in her corporate job. Working as an executive assistant for a CEO was a job that paid well, but it certainly didn’t make her heart...
Choose Local: Your Illawarra Valentines Day Gift
As another Valentines Day rolls on around, you might be starting to panic about choosing a gift. Buying a gift for your special someone on any day other than February 14 will get you alot of brownie points, but if you do want to mark Valentines Day with a gift, we...
Celebrate World Pizza Day in the Illawarra
World Pizza Day falls on February 9th in 2023. It is a day dedicated to celebrating all things deliciously crusty and heavenly cheesy. We figured it was a perfect opportunity to support our Illawarra pizza shops and get our carb-loading on. I was tasked with carrying...
