The Anonymous Widower

Tasmania

We all seem to forget about Tasmania.

I always remember my mother telling a tale about how at Dame Alice Owen’s School, a teacher came into the lesson, one morning and said she wanted a map of the world in five minutes.  When they’d all finished, the teacher, then asked who had put in Tasmania. I’m not sure whether my mother ever said, if she had.

I never really thought much about the State and in fact, it was the place least on the list of places I was likely to visit. After all it was so far away.

But one of my regrets in life, is when I flew round Australia with C, in a Piper Arrow, was that we didn’t do it properly and visit everywhere we could.  But C was worried, that a long holiday might result in other members of her chambers, stealing all her work.  If there is another profession, more paranoid than barristers, I haven’t found it.

But now Tasmania is going farther than anywhere else with a smoking ban for anybody born after 2000. It’s here in the Telegraph.

One of these days, I might get to Tasmania, but it would be a great surprise if I did, as there are so many places to explore without a long boring flight. Unless of course, I go by boat.  Whoever heard of ship lag anyway!

January 22, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | News, Transport/Travel | Australia, Flying, Smoking