I went to TMAG expecting an hour, maybe ninety minutes. I left four hours later, and I still had not seen everything. If you take one thing from this post, take that: budget more time than you think...
I went to TMAG expecting an hour, maybe ninety minutes. I left four hours later, and I still had not seen everything. If you take one thing from this post, take that: budget more time than you think...
I planned this one for a Saturday on purpose. Salamanca Market only happens once a week, and I did not want to be the person who turns up on a Tuesday and wonders where everyone went. So I built my...
Most guides point you up Mt Wellington for sunset. That is fair advice. But the mountain is a long drive, the weather turns without warning, and if you have only a couple of evenings in Hobart you...
Wineglass Bay is the photo that sells Tasmania. That perfect curve of white sand and turquoise water, wrapped around by the pink granite peaks of the Hazards, ends up on every postcard and guidebook...
You can see it from almost everywhere in Hobart. That great grey-blue wall of rock rising behind the city, often with its top lost in cloud. kunanyi / Mount Wellington is the backdrop to the whole...
Some places you remember for a single view. Bruny gave me a dozen. Sea cliffs dropping straight into the Southern Ocean, a thin ribbon of sand with ocean on both sides, an empty beach curving away...
Most people drive straight past Ross. The Midland Highway bypasses the village entirely, so unless you know it is there and make the deliberate turn, you will never see it. That is actually part of...
I have visited 43 countries and passed through more cities than I can count. Launceston is not a city that announces itself loudly. It does not have a famous harbour or a skyline you recognise from...
I had just come back from a full day at Cradle Mountain. Most people would have called it a day. But it was only early evening, my hotel was in the Launceston CBD, and someone had mentioned that...
I have visited 45 countries, and I have seen some genuinely beautiful places along the way. Cradle Mountain belongs in that list – and I was not expecting it to hit as hard as it did. This was...