Waratah On York Launceston

... Old Umbrella Shop, which has been trading constantly since 1860. Here I picked up a brochure on Heritage walks in Launceston and followed one past some of the magnificent old Colonial and Victorian buildings. Launceston was established in 1804 as Port Dalrymple by Lt Col William Paterson, but Governor Macquarie disliked the 42 mile journey up the Tamar river and removed the headquarters to Georgetown. It wasn’t until 1852 that the town was declared a ...

... as i had notified the cop (one of three)i had just had one beer at work. They notified me my Canadian licence was not legitimate, i needed a international licence (bollocks). They also told me quite sternly that i had a previous DUI on the 'mainland' (what tassies call big australia) in December. I do not! But apparerntly they knew better than I. I was then informed that i had to be taken in for ...

... gorge impressionnante dans un site enchanteur. Les grottes d'abord : encore une fois, gigantesques, impressionnantes, majestueuses. Ici les colonies de vers luisants sont plus « respectables » : on lève le nez dans la noirceur et on a l'impression d'avoir un mini ciel parsemé d'étoiles fluorescentes. C'est spécial! L'arrêt suivant sera Trowunna. On arrive juste à temps pour se joindre à un petit groupe de visite. Je me retrouve rapidement dans mon élément, les bras pleins d ...

The last stop of our tour brought us back to where we began it, to Launceston. It was the last day of the year 2007 and a wonderful 10 days lay behind us. The batteries were re-charged and we laughed and joked all the way through. A bright sunshiny day in Tasmania. We began our discovery with a little stroll through the city center. At night we were booked in for our next fancy dinner for our trip at the Stillwater restaurant, a ...

Hey everyone, We've been keeping very busy since our last entry. The day before the Tasmania game, we went for a team walk to see the monkeys which are in a glass enclosure in a nearby park (see photos!). After the monkeys amused us for half an hour, we moved on to playing ridiculous games in the park such as "drop and catch" (we'll explain later) which we found hilarious :) Our team walk and games are like a ritual for us which we do every day. We also have a resident ...

... glownej komendy. :) Na rozpoczecie tez byl obrzed rozpalenia Watry, ogien ktory gorale rozpalaja aby sie trzymac cieplo, i odstraszac zwierze od ich owieczek. U nas na zlocie, ta Watra bedzie miala warte 24 godziny na dobe aby sie ogien palil i nie zgasl, i niczego innego nie palil. Ten ogien bedzie utrzymywany przez trzy dlowne galezie, Kosciol, Dom, i Harcerstwo. Slicznie przedstawione przez Druhne Komendantke i super przygotowany obrzed. Pierwszy ...

... t/wouldn't go to the places that we wanted, and were expensive. For a Wednesday-Sunday we each paid $39 in total plus split 2 tanks of gas-a great deal and a ton of fun having our own transport. That night we drove through the countryside, populated sparsely by lone sheep and horses... it made me think of all the wise ass jokes made about the place from other Australians. During our first orientation meeting we were shown a picture of a man driving a motorcycle, dressed up ...

... to play with our new 'toys', and to take a swim to cool down. We quickly realised that a) We couldn't throw a boomerang And b) We couldn't kick a football straight We took solace in knowing Holly, Mads and Guy couldn't either, which made us feel a bit better! That said we still looked good with our t-shirts off, and our Santa hats on! Boxing Day For Boxing Day, we drove East for about an hour to Burney, home to a shack of another Aussie friend we had met in ...