Are you a wannabe freelance journalist or an aspiring travel writer with itchy feet? Do you want to spend a month in Tassie being mentored…
It was the eve of my 30th birthday: a painfully gorgeous afternoon in the south-east of Tasmania. A handful of friends and I were basking…
Hints of sweet honeysuckle and mint. Crisp forest dew and pine bark, damp. Soft touches of wood-like nectar circle the air, subtly paired with a…
The coffee is slightly too sweet, the windows hang heavy with legs of cured meat, the central streets are choked with sunburnt tourists, and I…
For travellers, there is no such thing as “good value” in Australia. The place is just too expensive. You never walk out of a bakery…
Midday, we are to leave at midday. Our amateur interpretation of synoptic charts of the Deep South suggests a good-weather window over the coming week….
Up in the wilderness of south-western Tasmania is a white mountain, a gleaming hunk of quartzite shaped like a shark’s tooth, high above an ocean…
Get There: From Queenstown, head down Mt Jules Road for 29km until it becomes gravel. Follow this gravel road for 11 more kilometres, at which point…
Get There: Located at 9 Argyle Street, Hobart 7000- a block away from the wharf. Cost: Dorms start at 26AUD and 29AUD for YHA members and non-members…
