Retro touring: Tasmania by campervan

By Alison Stewart
Updated April 1 2015 - 1:23pm, first published 12:50pm
Mount Wellington.  Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington. Photo: Rob Mills
The Nut, Stanley Photo: Rob Mills
The Nut, Stanley Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington.  Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington. Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington.  Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington. Photo: Rob Mills
The Nut, Stanley Photo: Rob Mills
The Nut, Stanley Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington.  Photo: Rob Mills
Mount Wellington. Photo: Rob Mills
The Nut, Stanley Photo: Rob Mills
The Nut, Stanley Photo: Rob Mills

Once upon a time, when our children were growing up, we had a magical holiday. It had everything – snow, sun, wild animals, misty mountains, crystalline lakes, black swans, the Cadbury chocolate factory. Are you there yet? Exactly. Tasmania. Jammed into a campervan, we circumnavigated that little island by road, and if that sounds like hell, amazingly, it wasn't. Certainly, there were spats, but as the days rolled by, the world got funnier and things that had been important suddenly weren't.

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