Travel Tips from Local People
Derwent Valley Medieval Festival
Medieval Festival (2017) Image by Leslie J Dee If you’re into everything medieval, from frocks, forging and general frivolity — then look no further than the Derwent Valley Medieval Festival. The event is held at Kensington Park, New Norfolk and
5 NEW Bucket Listable Experiences
5 New Bucket List Experiences. The locals know that the Derwent Valley is Tasmania’s best kept secret. It is their secret. Their own perfect piece of the world. Perfectly, sublimely beautiful. Pristine and vast, with warm pockets of civilisation. The
Rachel James
Meet Rachel James from Flywheel. Flywheel is a small and interesting letterpress and stationery store on New Norfolk’s main street, which first opened in 2012. The building itself is much older, its first incarnation as a bakery evidenced by the original
John Terry
Remembering John Terry. There is a tendency to assume that all who came to Tasmania in the early days were unwilling participants – convicts, their ‘keepers’ and the black sheep of the English gentry who, because of some indiscretion, were
Freya Downie
Meet Freya Downie. Freya loves the freedom of being on the land in the Derwent Valley. Her family home, Clarendon Estate in Gretna, is a historic property established in 1821. The property’s current incarnation is as a dairy farm supplying
The Black Swan
Black Swans of the Derwent. I don’t know why I thought that the Black Swan of Tasmania was an introduced species. I just did. I had thought of the swan as ‘European’, and had jumped to the assumption that it had
Marie Bean
Meet Marie Bean. Being a professional running coach and making endless batches of scones may seem incompatible occupations, but such is the life of the unstoppable Marie Bean. Marie Bean bought the historic Hawthorn Lodge in Bushy Park in 2015
The Nightingale
The Nightingale – Movie 2018. Jennifer Kent – Writer/Director. This week, the cast and crew of the movie The Nightingale (2018), left the Derwent Valley after filming here for more than a month. The movie tells the story of the
Ryelands Farm
Ryelands Farm. Living the Derwent Valley life: Boil the jug or pour yourself a pinot! Derwent Valley local Derek Jones and his mate Scruffy share from their patch of paradise, Ryelands farm on the banks of the Derwent River. The