SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, September 29, 2016 - With summer around the corner, the latest issue of Signature Luxury Travel & Style is your guide to elegant holiday season escapes and end-of-year adventures. We've dedicated this issue to style, so there can be no better place to start than Monaco, the small nation with an unparalleled reputation for glamour. We devote 18 pages of the spring edition to the principality, from Christine Retschlag's stay at Hotel Metropole and five-hour dining extravaganza at Alain Ducasse's Michelin-starred restaurant to style ambassador Tom Claeren's fashion tips for men.

Our editor, Cathy Wagstaff, is among the first Australians to experience the 'most luxurious ship in the world', cruising aboard Seven Seas Explorer from Rome to Barcelona. If you're wondering how a ship can credibly make such a claim, we find style at sea is all in the detail.

We're on the move this issue, too, with Carolyn Lockhart attending the lavish opening party at Finolhu - assuring us she wasn't one of the guests dancing on the tables in the early hours. Amelia Hungerford drops in on a cowboy fair in New Caledonia, followed by a stay on the Isle of Pines, and then comes home for a road trip to the Hunter Valley in a Lamborghini.

Well-travelled Michelle Kearney cruises the Kimberley onboard True North and proclaims it a 'trip of a lifetime'. Christine McCabe shares more of her recent style-focused trip to Helsinki and we look at some of the most revered palace hotels in Rajasthan. We also hope you will find our article on staying connected while travelling useful. We've put it to the test during our adventures and would love to hear further tips from you by tagging #signatureluxury on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

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