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Hobart Slideshow
Hobart
Travel Blogs from Hobart, Australia
Merry Christmas from Hobart
... 'sire partager son repas de noël avec nous. Nous passerons donc un merveilleux réveillon de Noël chez Daniel, un américain divorcé d'une australienne, installé à Hobart par amour de ses enfants et qui plus est passionné de cuisine ...
Une voiture de backpacker
... sont vraiment très accueillants et on a plus l'impression d’être dans un village plutôt qu’une capitale régionale (Hobart : 200 000 habitants). Le chauffeur de bus nous propose spontanément des billets à prix réduits (eu ...
Tasmania: my future home?!
... and towns, the people, everything. I don't know how to put it into words, but I just felt at home. Our first stop was Hobart, the biggest city on the island. It reminded me a lot of Victoria, BC with its harbor, old buildings, hilly sidewalks and cozy ...
Piano Showcase Concert!
Saturday, October 1st marks the date of my first, last, and only piano performance in Australia. Back in July when I first arrived in Hobart I was hesitant on taking up the challenge of learning Rachmaninoff's Suite no. 1 for 2 pianos, but I am sure ...
Retirement
Starting this blog from the first day of my retirement as today I am a man of leisure - well at my leisure to clean up the unit and ready to hand back to the real estate. Still have Karen to finish work, Simon's wedding and then ...
Tasmania by Campervan!!
waiting....waiting.....only 3months to go till our 10 day campervan trip!! We know nothing about ...
Camper-van Diemens Land
... , we bought bits to make an electrical adaptor to perform a very simple function which, we are told, is completely illegal in Australia without using a $150 box of tricks! We then drove south, looping inland to St Mary's because that would bring us up ...
To see the sea or not that is the question
... bye for now Hoo Roo Stewart and Nancy Hello All, well another fine day and we are now on the home straight heading to Hobart today yeahhhhh finally get to get out of this backpack, any way as i said a beautiful day here and after breakfast ...
Vitalstatistix (by Lyndon)
And just to finish off our blog, here are our vital statistics: Distance travelled: 12,706kms Petrol used: 1,345L: ...
The Last Resort in the Promised Land
... in the grass at the Devil conservation center, this was more wildlife than I had seen during my whole journey through mainland Australia. This night we stayed in Bicheno and on the morning after drove on to Port Arthur, a former convict settlement on the ...
An Adventure in the Tasmanian Wilderness
... ages for Emily to receive any form of medical attention, being British complicated things massively despite the fact that the UK and Australia have reciprocal health agreements and everything should have been easy. Still, after about 5 to 6 hours Em was ...
Hobart & farewell to Australia
... Mount Aaron in the Freycinet Peninsula, which could be one of the most scenic viewpoints we have been to. In summary for Australia and Tasmania, to be quite honest we came here because we were coming to New Zealand and thought we should come here as ...
Hobart - Capitale de Tasmanie
Le dernier arret de notre vacance etait a Hobart. En route a Hobart nous trouver un cascade immense. A Hobart, nous sommes restes dans une hotel fabuleux. Il est des vieux hangar et usine tout renove, et nous avons eu une vue du port. Pendant notre ...
Tasmania - Expore the possibilities
... maar in te stappen. We took care of everything. Toch blijft links rijden in een grote stad een uitdaging. Vooral Hobart bestaat uit 1 richtingsverkeer. Maar toen we in het platteland terechtkwamen was het prachtig rijden. Genietend van het mooie weer ...
I live out of a van
I have been living out of a campervan for the past 3 days. This will be my life for the next week. I flew into Hobart, Tasmania after a painfull last night of drinking in the big city of Melbourne. Lauren, Krissy (her girlfriend from Canada) ...
Day 4 - Port Arthur
Day 4 and we were up early in preparation for our big day out at Port Arthur. Leaving Hobart at 0900 after a huge breaky at the hotel restaurant, we heading off on our 1.5 hour drive to this historic site (stopping off at JB HiFi ...
Tasmania - Looking for that devil!
We had 3 wonderful days visiting Tasmania (Jan. 27th to 30th - way too short) where we met our gracious hosts Rich and Patrice Ervin. We had lots of laughter, wine and adventures with the sage advice of our fabulous ...
Countdown
Counting down to the big trip. We are all very excited and busy getting ready. Our travel friends Russ, Rob, Scott. Jane, Janet and David will be leaving Aussie on the 3rd July. We have met to plan, eat, drink and party together for the last year. ...
Leaving Home
We spent months planning our trip. Mark had his typical checklist which had been well constructed and he checked off his tasks in such a tedious manner . He was well prepared. We decided to swap the Hilux tip tray for an older Land Cruiser thanks to ...
2 weeks 'till the trip of a lifetime!
... welcome after the gruelling trek! All in all, we will be away for 6 weeks, and just miss seeing Liss arrive back in Australia after 6 months overseas by about 4 days. Looking forward to a massive family reunion in Dec when we are all in the one country ...
A Busy week in Tassie
What a busy week we had in Tassie after the race. We drove across to Richmond (about 30 minutes out of Hobart) to see - and stay with, bless their little cotton sox - Glenn's mum & dad. We had a hoot with Marjorie & Bill. They ...
Hobart and Bothwell touring
7th January - Hobart Another nice day. We left early for the Heritage Highway/Rivers Run trip. The hills are very dry and brown all through this region. We stopped at Oatlands, which has some lovely historic buildings including Callington ...
In search of mountains...
... got bigger and the forests started to take over. I'd like to say this didn't look at all like the stereotypes of Australia, apart from the perennial eucalyptus trees of course, although there were pine forests mixed in as well. At Mount Field National ...
Penguin Hunting in tip and op shops....
Today is a stunning day in Hobart. Beautiful blue skies and little wind. Who can sit indoors on a day like today. I didn't. I cranked up Sidney, my Tassie Penguin Hunting Scooter and headed south to the Margate Tip shop. I have not been ...