'Tis the season to stop!

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'Tis the season to stop!

'Tis the season to stop!
It's been quite the year 2016, boxes are ticked with the second cookbook on the shelves and our final child finished school, but I'm ending it all just a little weary. It seems when you burn the candle at both ends for a whole year, you eventually run out of wax - I think I'm going to fall over the finish line at the end of this week and then proceed to lay horizontal for quite some time. I'm so thankful for what's been done and just as thankful to have the chance to stop.

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An Afternoon Tea In My Garden!

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An Afternoon Tea In My Garden!

We baked our little socks off today....but not before we gobbled up a late breakfast of poached eggs, tomato and sourdough. Coupled with endless chatter, shared laughter and deep discussions between Michelle and I, on the journey of writing recipes and books. What followed was the swift rolling of pastry for the Eccles Cakes, flour stuck to our faces. Whipping up of sponge cakes, ovens bursting with activity. The making of chocolate wheaty biscuits from scratch, whilst the smell of Spanish Tortilla bubbling away on the stove filled the room.

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A Table in the Orchard!

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A Table in the Orchard!

Have you ever had a moment when you thought to yourself,I think I'll move to the country, where life is slower, people are friendlier, the grass will be greener and my life will be simpler? Maybe you have gone one step further and looked at rural real estate online.... road tripped the coast and country dreaming of a sea change or a tree change or both!

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The East Coast - Tasmania

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The East Coast - Tasmania

After a couple of days in the Huon we moved on again and met up once more with our three offspring in Hobart. Together we headed up the East Coast to stay at a small coastal town called Swanwick. It was just ten minutes’ drive from the well-known east coast town of Coles Bay and near the renowned Wineglass Bay, located in Freycinet National Park. Swanwick was a gorgeous place to base ourselves for ten days together.

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Our days in Hobart, Tasmania

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Our days in Hobart, Tasmania

Hobart really is such a pretty place, and the many similarities found me likening it to the city of Wellington in New Zealand. Both cities are wedged between extensive mountain ranges, with older style houses and shacks sprawled along the hillsides, lots of hipster cafes and a bustling city market, with a stunning harbour and waterfront taking centre stage.

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The Huon Valley and Tasmania's South

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The Huon Valley and Tasmania's South

After a favourable beginning to our Tasmanian road trip on magnificent Bruny Island, we docked again on mainland Tasmania at Kettering and headed further south. Following the coast road literally along the edge of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, we passed through the small towns of Woodbridge, Birchs Bay and Flowerpot.

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Bruny Island, Tasmania

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Bruny Island, Tasmania

Things begin to get even more remote when you camp on Bruny Island, an island off the east coast of Tasmania (also an island and one of the seven states of Australia). Bruny Island runs along the south-eastern coast of Tasmania and is separated from mainland Tasmania by the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. Bruny (as the locals call it) is a dreamy place where you really can ‘get away from it all’ and live according to ‘Bruny time’.

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