As much as I love the little town that I call home, it’s small, it’s clean and it’s safe BUT it’s also FLAT AS A TAC and one of the driest areas in Victoria.  Not a green field, hill or a mountain to been seen, well actually that’s not exactly true, we can “see” a mountain, it’s about a 40 minute drive away and there’s just one of them.  It’s just barely visible on the horizon…

For years now I have felt this inner itch, nothing medical more like a craving for hills and trees and green fields.  One of the few places in Australia that has all of these things and is still small, clean and safe is Tasmania.  Located here…

On our honeymoon Lee “The Love God” and I spent two weeks driving around England without a care in the world.  We stayed with relatives and in Pubs and basically we were carefree and went where the road lead us.  England was hilly and green and there were sooo many little villages and lovely places to stop and spend the day.  So in December Lee and I are packing up the car and the kids and heading off on a two week driving holiday around Tasmania.  Tassie here we come. 

I have booked some tickets on here…

I am so excited, I can hardly wait, and Tasmania has some of the world most pristine rainforests…

Some of the oldest ports in Australia…

 and this…

Yes that’s right … a Cadbury factory.  Soooo good is this tourist attraction that we have been advised, nay WARNED, that we must book now to do the tour of the scrumpdiddleumptious factory as it gets completely sold out and how disappointing heartbreaking would that be if we couldn’t get in! 

To cut down on costs I am going to take the car and all the luggage overnight on The Spirit of Tasmania and Lee and the boys are going to fly on one of those very cheap flights, made even cheaper as they have no luggage and will be “walk on” passengers.  I saved over $1000 on our fairs this way, that’s a lot of chocolate I mean spending money!

This weekend I will be getting out the road map and searching the Internet for accommodation and other lovely places of interest to see.  This should be one fantastic holiday, might even result in a new place to live… one can only dream.

TTFN