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Offering fresh chances to experience the Japanese art of wabi sabi or a romantic vision of “old Hobart”, these weekend retreats offer a delicious taste of the Apple Isle.

Save Share Ghost tour guide Peter Fielding, dressed in a raven-black top hat and frock coat, leads a band of history enthusiasts to the old “hanging” jail at Oatlands, a heritage town in the Tasmanian midlands famed for its 138 Georgian sandstone buildings. Thirty years ago, in the depths of an economic slump and rural drought, this former military barrack a little over an hour’s drive north of Hobart had the air of a ghost town. Today, with a heritage tourism and foodie revival ...