Tag Archives: Australia

Farewell to the Apple Isle…

Travelling Frogs recently enjoyed a wonderful trip to Tasmania, visiting family and loving the stunning and varied scenery, the buzz of Hobart, the big skies and blue seas, spotting wildlife (wombats and kookaburras were the Frogs’ favourites)…

And of course enjoying wonderful, fresh food: veggies, cheeses, honey and jam, lots of fish. And fruit. Tasmania is, after all, known as the Apple Isle…

I loved the gesture by the Tasmanian Tourist Board offering an apple for filling in a survey (or even if you don’t).

Even better, I thought, were the wonderful people at the TCM Lauderdale Store, who offer free fruit (including apples, of course!) for kids…

Should we or shouldn’t we?

Uluru/Ayers Rock. Hard to find the words for the sense of awe it inspires, its beauty, its significance, its unique environment. There was a dilemma, though. Should we, or shouldn’t we, climb to the top?

We read the words of the Anangu, traditional custodians of the site. And we decided not to.

And I have to admit, just in case we’d been tempted, one look at the route would probably have clinched it….