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An Antipodean Castle by the Sea

The Entrance to Villa Howrah is through immaculately groomed gardens     Too bad it’s not a leap year this year.   I have just seen the place where I‘d like to spend my next honeymoon. I was treated to a surprise Alice in Wonderland Party there recently and had a thoroughly   enjoyable time, surrounded by an assortment of   white rabbits, fairies, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, a very sexy Knave of Hearts, a Mad Hatter and of course, Alice herself. I had no idea where we were going. I was only told to wear black – easy since that accounts for 80% of my wardrobe, given long black gloves and the hat shown in the New Year photos, then I was spirited away to become the Queen of Hearts in a place I had never heard of - strange, given that I thought I knew most places in Tasmania and especially around Hobart.    These accoutrements are not usually part of the normal arrangements, but the picnic baskets of food and the games of Croquet on the lawns...

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