By Catriona Rowntree
How is the week treating you? For those of you with school children currently on holidays, my wish for you is that you’re coping. I’m willing you through with 'emotional Panadol', via this Newsletter. For the rest of you, know that I’m always wishing you the best. I wanted to share a conversation I had this week ...
Question: Dear Catriona, I'm looking for recommendations for a short, four- or five-night itinerary for a trip to Tasmania at the end of January next year. We'll be flying over and hiring our own car and I'll be travelling with my mum in her late 60s, and my two children (aged seven and five). The options online ...
This week's Guest Traveller Patrick Walden (brother of our very own crew member Jack) spent a long weekend in Tasmania on a driving holiday which started with a trip on the Spirit of Tasmania. Travelling, an enjoyable endeavour, can be fraught with its accompanying challenges. As a person in a wheelchair, or indeed anyone who simply moves at a ...
Guest Traveller Cate Keane recently visited Launceston, Tasmania's second-biggest city, in the north-east of the island state. Here, she offers five ways to enjoy a leisurely weekend in Launceston... University of Tasmania Stadium. Come for the AFL footy (even if you're not into it...). There's an intimate stadium, superb food trucks, it's walking distance from your hotel and there ...
Adventurous octogenarian Alan Johnston and his wife Sue put their car on the Spirit of Tasmania and set off for a fortnight on the Apple Isle this month. Disembarking in Devonport, they drove west to Burnie and Ulverstone and then east to Low Head and George Town on the Tamar River, Scamander and St. Helens, before heading ...
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