#5 Sydney to Hobart final strait!
When I first booked Saltcotes for Christmas, I gave no thought to its position relative to the Derwent River, or to the date of the...
Shelley Dark
Dec 30, 2018
#4. Tassie Christmas
We agreed that if we spent Christmas in Tassie this year we wouldn't do gifts at all. No tree, no bonbons, no gifts, no pre-cooking. A...
Shelley Dark
Dec 29, 2018
#3. Opossum Bay Tassie
O'Possum Bay is a sleepy village forty minutes drive from Hobart, yet it's light years away. Fifties weatherboard cottages snuggle low...
Shelley Dark
Dec 23, 2018
#2. Feel the serenity?
In the south-east of Tasmania on a 200-acre peninsula surrounded by the chilly waters of Esperance Bay and the d'Entrecasteaux Channel,...
Shelley Dark
Dec 19, 2018
#1 Must-see Hobart
Hobart is really buzzing. There's a sophistication born of knowing who you are and what you're good at. A quiet confidence that Tassie...
Shelley Dark
Dec 16, 2018
#21 looking back at London
This morning at the hotel I sat in my preferred breakfast seat in front of the servery. The two tables there are outside the dining room...
Shelley Dark
Oct 5, 2018
#20 final week at Kew
'When you buy or commission the work of a craftsman you buy more than just an item or service. You buy hundreds of hours of...
Shelley Dark
Sep 28, 2018
#19 Richmond..
I loved seeing the very sophisticated Petersham Nurseries shop at Covent Garden - I tried to walk in before it even opened! But I was...
Shelley Dark
Sep 26, 2018
#18 if you're tired of London, you're tired of life!
That's the gist of what Samuel Johnson said way back in 1777. I couldn't agree more! So when I woke on Saturday to grey skies and...
Shelley Dark
Sep 25, 2018
#17 from Kew to the big smoke
Picture a chef standing in front of you shucking ice-cold Mersea Island oysters as fast as you can eat them. That was Thursday night,...
Shelley Dark
Sep 24, 2018
#16 on the hunt
I've been looking forward to searching the archives at Kew for so long I could hardly believe that the day had finally arrived. I was so...
Shelley Dark
Sep 20, 2018
#15 Kew
The weather in Cork was just brilliant the whole time I was there but today it dawned drizzly, windy and foggy! It wasn't a pea souper...
Shelley Dark
Sep 18, 2018
#14 Draíocht = magic
If you've been following my research travels, you'll know there's been magic happening. When I told a man sitting next to me on a plane...
Shelley Dark
Sep 17, 2018
#13 riding in my car, car
'I think Europcar is the best rental car company in the world,' I said seriously. 'That wasn't always the case,' said my helper at Cork...
Shelley Dark
Sep 14, 2018
#12 the city of Cork
Get ready. This post's a marathon. I told you about my mate Tom on the aeroplane. The next Corkonian I met was the taxi-driver - I asked...
Shelley Dark
Sep 13, 2018