Australian Traveller

ONE FINE DAY STANLEY

IN 2018, KERRY AND ALASTAIR HOUSTON upped sticks from Hobart with their young daughters to breathe new life into an old sailors’ tavern at the heart of a little fishing village on Tassie’s north-west coast. Built in 1849, Ship Inn Stanley has been transformed into a boutique storytelling hotel that allows guests to luxuriate in the local history of the building and town as much as it does in its impeccable styling and design. Here, Kerry

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