{"id":10818,"date":"2015-08-05T06:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2015-11-01T06:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T04:36:24","slug":"tasmania-la-tierra-de-van-diemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/tasmania-la-tierra-de-van-diemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania &#8211; La Tierra de Van Diemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring Tasmania aka Van Diemen&#8217;s Land has always been a dream of mine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And dreams are meant to be turned into reality \ud83d\ude42 !!<\/p>\n<p>My adventure starts in Hobart in late January where I am warmly welcomed by Joanna and Rob, owners of Tassie Motor Shacks &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tassiemotorshacks.com.au\">www.tassiemotorshacks.com.au<\/a>. Their company slogan <em>\u201cLife\u2019s a Beach in a Tassie Motor Shack\u201d<\/em>\u00a0appealed to me big time and certainly does their operation full justice. My set of wheels, a flash 4 people van, with a super cosy sleeping compartment on top (my \u201dpenthouse\u201d), was my castle and the most perfect mobile home I could only have wished for. I named it \u201cZeehaen\u201d in memory of Abel Tasman\u2019s ship. Looking at my huge mountain of gear (80kgs: 2 surfboards, 3 kiteboards, 4 kites, accessories &amp; spareparts), Rob immediately got the drill out and I had an additional \u2018hanging-boardrack\u2019 in no-time that would make my life in the van a lot more comfortable. I glanced at him with a big grin of anticipation. Pulling out of the camper van depot and turning into the main street, that had the name \u201cSurf Road\u201d, that grin turned into a massive smile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I could be writing a book about all the adventures that I lived during the 7200kms that I cruised all around Tassie \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story right here<\/strong>, in <strong>Spanish in Surf a Vela Magazine<\/strong>, <strong>simply scroll down and click &#8220;Download PDF&#8221;,<\/strong> you can save the document to your computer or read directly online!<\/p>\n<p>If Spanish isn&#8217;t your native language, don&#8217;t despair! Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/bis-ans-andere-ende-der-welt\/\"><strong>German<\/strong> version on <strong>10.5\u00a0pages<\/strong> in Kiteboarding.eu,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/van-diemens-land\/\"><strong>French<\/strong> on <strong>10 pages<\/strong> in Kiteboarder Mag<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/voyage-to-van-diemens-land\/\"><strong>English on 10 pages<\/strong> in Kiteworld<\/a>, have fun !<br \/>\nGabi x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring Tasmania aka Van Diemen&#8217;s Land has always been a dream of mine&#8230; And dreams are meant to be turned into reality \ud83d\ude42 !! My adventure starts in Hobart in late January where I am warmly welcomed by Joanna and Rob, owners of Tassie Motor Shacks &#8211; www.tassiemotorshacks.com.au. Their company slogan \u201cLife\u2019s a Beach in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1861,1744,1856,1857,154,611,1853,358,1644,42],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-stories","tag-diemens","tag-land","tag-motor","tag-shacks","tag-spain","tag-surf","tag-tasmania","tag-van","tag-vela","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10831,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions\/10831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}