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Big & cumbersome

Lessons Learned From Our Tasmania Trip

Next time we travel, we’ll do it differently. 1.  Our existing luggage is being retired. We invested in Pak-Lite duffel-type bags on wheels about 13 years ago when the kids were little and we were still novices at travelling. Now the kids are big enough and ugly enough to lug their own luggage we’ve invested [...]

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the desolation of Queenstown made me cry

Tasmania – Day 12 to the end

For me, passing through the countryside around Queenstown was the saddest part of our trip to Tasmania. With its long history of mining, the sulphurous clouds of gas from equipment and acid rains have desolated and denuded what was once an area of wet temperature vegetation.  To see what has become of the countryside after [...]

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Unfurling beauty.

Tasmania – Day 9 & 10

We’ve been on the road again for the last 2 days – heading along the north coast & then down west. We spent last night in Somerset.  The kids have been requesting more beach walks, which I’ve been more than happy to accommodate.  I’m finding that being by the water is having a wonderfully calming [...]

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Wondering whether I am brave enough to attempt this.

Tasmania – Day 8

Day 8 and it’s Boxing Day today. We’ve headed to the Gorge again this afternoon for a cool down swim, so I thought I’d brave the water today and swim up the Gorge with my Sister and all the kids. Can I just say that the water was cold (if you had of been there [...]

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