Our favourite part of Monday morning is putting together this delightful wrap up of destination news for our faithful readers. Just kidding! We don’t like anything about Mondays.

Kick your week off right with all the latest destination news! And if that doesn’t work, we recommend taking a leaf out of the Travel Weekly editorial playbook by downing four coffees before midday.

Just like the fireworks in the accompanying photo, two prominent industry bodies have gone off about the NSW government’s big funding cut to its tourism agency.

Meanwhile, our own research shows that everyone in the office is now ready for winter to end so we can feel our toes again.

Rumours Sydney Harbour left a flaming dog poo on Coffs Harbour’s doorstep after this have proven exaggerated & utterly unfounded.

The best eight photos and videos showcasing NSW have been revealed. Sadly, our shot of a kangaroo eating our washing didn’t make the cut.

Don’t get too excited, this is not one of those ‘win-a-jar-of-jellybeans-for-guessing-correctly’ kind of competitions, although we could always raffle off the office Scotch Finger stash.

If you’re anything like us, the idea of reconnecting with the family face-to-face is a terrible idea. Unless our nan is reading this, and then it’s wonderful!

Our boss gave us a toolkit for writing better article blurbs, but we tossed it in the bin. Explains why we make such bad puns, we guess.

Sadly, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ never responded to our audition video, but it seems NSW is having a bit more luck in the celebrity department.

Impress your insta followers and your facebook friends with a nights stay in a cave or a treehouse!

The coveted awards have been handed out, with a suburban beachside property winning over exotic choices in Italy, New York and London.