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Ultra chic historic and self- catering apartments showcasing Tasmanianboutique wines, art and contemporary furniture design. These luxuryapartments have been designed to indulge all your senses. Comfort, beautyand objects of fine design surround you.All apartments offer luxury king size beds, contemporary bathrooms, a pillowmenu, a DVD library, ipod docking stations, Gaggia coffee machines, stateof the art kitchens and fresh gourmet breakfast provisions. We also offer alarge maxi bar featuring a range of excellent red and white cool-climateboutique Tasmanian wines.
TWOFOURTWO is nestled in the heart of cosmopolitan Charles Street, withcafes, restaurants, a French patisserie, delicatessen, and a green grocerstocking a fabulous range of Tasmanian organic products, all within 120metres from your front door. TWOFOURTWO is a seven minute walk to theCBD of Launceston.Yours to experience and enjoy!
The Studio Apartment (king bed max 2 adults)Features a luxurious bedroom, open plan kitchen/living with separatebathroom and views over trendy Charles Street. Sit back and enjoy thebeautifully designed kitchen showcasing Tasmanian Snow granite andTasmanian oak veneer.The Terrace Apartment (king bed max 2 adults)Offers a contemporary setting with an upstairs bedroom and separatebathroom. Two Juliet balconies overlook the city and hills of West Launceston,and a spectacular spiral staircase leads to a living room/kitchen downstairs,designed in rich Blackwood veneer and stainless steel.
The Bakehouse Apartment (king bed & two x king singles max 4 people)This is a very spacious apartment with a separate bedroom downstairs. Thebathroom offers a deep soaking bath, and the kitchen is designed usingtantalizing rich red Tasmanian myrtle and stainless steel. The large curvedceiling living space has a mezzanine floor with room for children or extraadults. (maximum 2) French doors open out to a private courtyard andbbq.
NUMBER 10 Townhouse (king and two x king singles max 4 people)NUMBER 10 is our stand alone townhouse, offering a spacious apartmentwith two seperate bedrooms, living room, dining room ,separate kitchenand bathroom. Outdoors there is a deck facing north with a small backyard,bbq and outdoor dining. This apartment showcases Alan Livermore's (oneof Tasmanians’ Top 10 furniture designers) latest range of furniture "Ute" andoffers plenty of room for a family for longer stays.All of our apartments offer reverse cycle heating/air conditioning, a selectionof menus from the “best restaurants” in town, and an eclectic range ofrecent magazines. The apartments also showcase Tasmanian prints andphotographs by well known Tasmanian artists. Each apartment has accessto a guest laundry, private courtyards and bbq facilities. Free parking isprovided.
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It’s a hoot, Bundanoon is Brigadoon
Steak and a spitfire finish
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■ If marvelling at brawny blokestossing around what appear to bescaled-down power poles with nary awince is your thing, or equally sowatching them lift great round stonesthat weigh as much (or more) thanthey do, then come April 21 littleBundanoon – half-way betweenSydney and Canberra in the NSWSouthern Highlands – is the place tobe.
Or if such shenanigans may be abit too hernia-worrying, ponder oth-ers playfully hurling water-filled bal-loons impossible distances for part-ners to catch without getting a drench-ing by bursting them (the record is40.4 metres,) and even others tossingfresh-laid eggs great distances foranother to deftly catch without suffer-ing the consequences of gooey break-ages (the record for this bizarre activ-ity being an amazing 59.6 metres.)
Then again, as we do, go there sim-ply to graze through 30 food stalls of-fering treats Scottish, salivating andmore-ish: Highland shortbreads andScots pies, drop scones, gingerbreadsand Abernethy biscuits, butter-scotches and other home-made con-fections, and if the stomach is up to it,blood pudding and haggis.
All because like Brigadoon in thestage show and movie, for just oneday of the year Bundanoon raises it-self out of its early morning Highlandsmist, and for that day becomesBrigadoon and all things Scottish.
■ Hamish MacGowan likes his wineand he likes his steak, and for tenyears he’s been partnering that steakwith a Cabernet Sauvignon he sayshe created as the first single varietalAustralian red to specifically enjoywith steak – and which he appropri-ately labelled Angus the Bull.
Hamish says red meat is quitesubtle in flavour, and therefore needsa wine that’s not overpowering.
“Which is why,” he says, “I makeAngus the Bull from CabernetSauvignon: it retains tannins and finefruit acid, the characteristics that cutthrough the fattiness of meat.”
And while he adds that hiswinemaking philosophy has remainedunchanged over that decade, The Bullover the same period has “evolvedrather than changed” to meet a shift-ing market place
As a result he’s slowly increasedthe amount of cold climate CentralVictorian fruit to give greater el-egance to the wine (the remainder isfrom South Australia,) with his latest2010 release elegant, yet still heartyand generously tasty.
Pay $19.95 and enjoy with that nextsteak – and as Hamish does, withSpitfire brand Hot English Mustardfrom Victoria’s The Regimental Con-diment Company
●●●●● Canberra City Pipes and Drums at Bundanoon
So popular has it become in its 35years that it now attracts over 11,000visitors, which is more than five timesthe local population.
And every one of them will attestthat Bundanoon is Brigadoon is oneof the great family outings on the coun-try calendar (and has become one ofthe largest gatherings of all thingsScottish outside Scotland.)
Even City Rail gets in on the act:so those visiting by train know theyare getting off at the right place, theBundanoon signs on the local railwaystation are replaced for the day withBrigadoon.
But Bundanoon is Brigadoon is notjust all about grown-up’s games, com-petitions and filling the tummy, there’ssomething for all ages – right down toa Bonnie Bairns Highland Dress Com-petition for little ones five and under,and more than 100 arts, crafts, Scot-tish and Tartan variety and specialtystalls.
The 92nd Gordon Highlanders,named after a regiment first formedin 1794 and who later fought in theBattle of Waterloo, will also re-createa “company street” from the time ofWaterloo, including mess tent/kitch-ens, headquarters, a surgeon’s tent andmilitary supply hut.
They’ll also have men, women andchildren dressed as Georgian era“camp followers” (those who fol-lowed armies and sold them goodsand services,) as well as a display ofhistoric firearms, swords and bayo-nets, demonstrations of muzzle-load-ing, and will talk about military lifeduring the time of the famous Battle.
There’ll also be Scottish Countryand Highland Dancing demonstra-tions – with visitors invited to join inreels and jigs – and a demonstrationby the Swordplay School of Theatri-cal Fencing and Stage Combat.
Other highlights will include indi-vidual pipe band displays, and at9.30am a Street Parade with 25 PipeBands, marching Scottish Clans andSocieties, and decorated floats.
At 2.30pm there’ll be the mainCaber Toss with those scaled-down6-metre power poles, and at 3.10pmthe Tartan Warriors will see whoamongst them goes home Championby lifting The Bundanoon Stones ofManhood from the ground onto thetops of wine barrels in the fastest time… the five massive round stonesweighing progressively from 115 to165kgs.
There’ll also be a hay toss, shottputt, those egg and water tosses, kiltedraces, and on stage several times dur-ing the day Newcastle’s famous High-lander Celtic Rock Band with theirunusual combination of bagpipes,fiddles, electric and acoustic guitars,percussions and vocals…
Then finally as the sun sets, themists descend and the crowds driftoff into the gloaming, or stay on forCeilidh (dancing) in the local hall, AuldLang Syne rings out as mythicalBrigadoon falls again under a magi-cal spell to sleep once more for an-other year … and Brigadoon Stationreverts again to simply Bundanoon.
Entry: $18 adults, $15 Age Pen-sioners with card, $5 children (5-17years,) $40 Family (2 adults/2 chil-dren.) For pre-purchase of tickets andassistance with accommodationphone 1300 657 559 or visitwww.brigadoon.net.au
One For Lunch■ McLaren Vale’s KangarillaRoad is one of our few makers toproduce a blend of Savagnin Blancand Chardonnay – yes SavagninBlanc, a variety mostly grown inthe L’Etoile and Cotes du Jura re-gions of France.
It’s 2011 Charlie’s BlendSavagnin Blanc Chardonnay haslots of sweet tropical fruit andlychee flavours and a crisp acidity– and its certainly well worth pay-ing the just-$15rrp for this enjoy-ably different drop with seafoodsand salads.
Savagnin Blanc is also labelledin some parts of Europe asTraminer, and a few years backwhen Spain’s Albarino was thoughtwould be the new darling of whitevarieties in Australia, imported cut-tings proved in fact to be SavagninBlanc and the “Albarino” experi-ment literally withered on the vine.
Hopefully with now-correctidentification like KangarillaRoad’s, there’ll be a bright new fu-ture for it.
Pictured■ Created to enjoy with a goodsteak and a dab of Hot English Mus-tard■ French connection fromMcLaren Vale: something differ-ent with seafood and salads.