Australian Country

a sunday drive

This house has been waiting for me,” Tania Norman says as she recalls a conversation she recently had with a tradesperson. Tania fi rst fell in awe of her new home when she and her husband, Kieth, went for a drive 20 years ago. “We drove past this house and stopped, and I remember thinking, 'Oh, my God. Isn't this gorgeous? They're so lucky to live in this house.'”

Interestingly, it was also a drive that brought them to their last home in nearby Encounter Bay back in 2017. The couple's plans to move to Perth from Adelaide were immediately quashed when they happened upon the idyllic locale. “We were on our way to live may remember that story in a previous edition of the magazine. We learned of the new move as we caught up with the Normans again.

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