For those of you who prefer to hear and see about a trip, rather than read about it, there is a 22 minute narrated video on youtube.
Our flights were long (14 ½ hours from LA to Sydney), but smooth. We arrived in Hobart, Tasmania around noon after leaving Denver at 5 PM on April 28th. We’re staying at the Best Western, one of the nicer hotels in the harbor area of Hobart. It was Saturday, the day of the market at Salamanca Place, which used to be the warehouse district once used by the whalers. The marketplace sold everything from food, jewelry, used books, and antiques, but what we noticed most was decorative wood in all shapes and sizes. It proved a diversion from taking a nap, rather than trying to get used to the time zone change (8 hours).
Our flights were long (14 ½ hours from LA to Sydney), but smooth. We arrived in Hobart, Tasmania around noon after leaving Denver at 5 PM on April 28th. We’re staying at the Best Western, one of the nicer hotels in the harbor area of Hobart. It was Saturday, the day of the market at Salamanca Place, which used to be the warehouse district once used by the whalers. The marketplace sold everything from food, jewelry, used books, and antiques, but what we noticed most was decorative wood in all shapes and sizes. It proved a diversion from taking a nap, rather than trying to get used to the time zone change (8 hours).
Our tour guide is Wayne Robinson, who grew up in New
Zealand, but currently lives in Australia, and is an OAT guide for both
countries. For dinner, we went to a local pub for dinner in the Battery
district of the city. Along the way we admired the architecture of this
district, particularly the iron wrought decorations, made from the ballast of
the ships.
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