NATURAL ABUNDANCE

There have been no scheduled international flights into or out of Hobart International Airport since 1998. Yet this little inconvenience hasn’t deterred foreign tourists to the Tasmanian capital, who have to fly into an Australian mainland airport before transferring on a domestic flight to the island state.

Centred on latitude 42 degrees south, Tasmania is one of the most remote outposts of the civilised world and there’s a refreshing sense that the madding crowd is a long way away (Antarctica to the south is the next landfall). That being said, today it is firmly on the radar for many travellers. The reason? While its 520,000 residents (Hobart has 206,000 of them) enjoy life in the slow lane, its food scene is very much