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‘A bit of a wild man’: Stranded caretaker road-tests new island resort

‘A bit of a wild man’: Stranded caretaker road-tests new island resort

When flights to Lord Howe Island stopped in April, Tim Maxwell found himself stuck with road-testing his family's new resort.

The design of Island House maximises the light and the breeze.  Anthony Rose

Fiona CarruthersTravel editor

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One of the enduring questions of 2020 will be: “How did you cope, stuck at home for months on end?”

Tim Maxwell has a dinner party-stopping answer. He spent six months stranded at his family’s new luxury property, Island House on Lord Howe Island.

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Fiona CarruthersTravel editorFiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com

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