During my visit to the northern part of Tasmania, I didn’t spend too much time in Launceston as my aim was to explore Cradle Mountain and St Helens. On my last day, however, I managed to spend half a day there having a long extended lunch at The Mill Providore Restaurant and Gallery and a quick [...]

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The Mill Providore Restaurant and Gallery Ritchies Mill, 2 Bridge Rd Launceston, Tasmania (Australia) P: +61 3 6331 0777 I had half a day spare before I had to catch my flight back to Sydney and decided to spend it at a long lunch at The Mill Providore Restaurant and Gallery. As the name suggests, [...]

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Latris Restaurant Marina Parade, St Helens Tasmania P: +61 3 6376 1170 Ok so we know St Helens is famous for its seafood and Lobsters so we wanted to go to dinner at a place where we can sample this for ourselves. We had been to Latris for lunch earier and they had the best [...]

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From Cradle Mountain, I decided to take a very long drive to the other side (east) of Tasmania to a town called St Helens. Compared to many part of Tasmania, St Helen is one of the warmest towns. If you are from Melbourne, you will be surprised that St Helens is actually warmer all year round [...]

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Following the footsteps of Austrian-born Australia, Gustav Weindofer, who climbed Cradle Mountain in 1910, I decided to spend a day hiking a small portion of the  Cradle Mountain National Park. Cradle Mountain is one of the best multi-day walks and its overland track requires bookings in advanced due to its popularity and limits of hikers allowed [...]

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Daniel Alps at Strathlynn (Ninth Island Vineyards) 95 Rosevears Drive Launceston, Tasmania P: +61 3 6330 2388 F: +61 3 633 02599 After I landed at Launceston airport, I hopped into my hire car and drove 45 minutes alongside the amazing scenery of Tamar Valley. We were heading towards Pipers Brook Ninth Island Vineyard for a late [...]

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So one of my friend asked me where she should go for Easter seeing we all had a 4 day weekend. She wanted something back to nature with beautiful sights, fresh air, nice walks and somewhere very relaxing, so I recommend that she should head off to Tassie! (Tasmania) I was in the middle of [...]

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While in Bruges they speak Dutch, in Brussels, they speak French . Here I was in Brussels (Bruxelles in French), a Belgium city with 1 million population. This is the city where I ended my Belgium travel. I had a whole day to explore the city. My first impression of Brussels was that it was [...]

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I decided to take on a local belgian colleague’s recommendation to eat traditional Flemish food at a restaurant called De Vlaamsche Pot at Bruges (in French or Brugge in Flemish). De Vlaamsche Pot Helmstraat 3-5 8000 Brugge P: +35 50 34 00 86 De Vlaamsche Pot serves traditional Flemmish Cuisine. My travel mate and I ordered [...]

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After watching the movie In Bruges (Colin Farel), I decided to make an overnight visit to the very popular quaint Belgian city of Bruges (in French) or Brugge (in Flemish). This medieval city is one of the most preserved in Europe – having said that, most of the architectures are only in the 19th and 20th century. My [...]

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