Freycinet
There’s not a lot of accommodation around Freycinet NP, some boring luxury lodges and the rest is mainly through AirBnB. Which I don’t like but beggars can’t be choosers so, after avoiding a rip off attempt by one strange person to upsell I found us a nice place in Swannick. Spacious, clean, comfortable. The problem…
Tasman Peninsula
The Tasman Peninsula is a beautiful place, lots of dramatic coastline and stuff. We hiked up to Cape Raoul, fantastic dolerite cliffs with the sea banging against them all the way. This was the first time we came up against the grading system, again. I think I’ve elaborated on that enough in previous years, but…
Hobart
So, we obviously started in Hobart. We stayed at a small accommodation just out of town, on Mt Nelson, beautiful views over the bay, very quiet and two lovely dogs. It’s called Signalman’s Cottage and I won’t call it a B&B because the B for breakfast, well, I’ll get back to that in a later…
Even more pics
Best tearoom, best food and I want to be adopted by these people please, bad bad tyre…
Pictures, because Google still sucks
In order: Christmas elves on Qantas, room with a view and a dog, funny carousel for cartman’s imaginary friends, and honest sign in the best ice cream cart in Tassie! 😍
Tassie
The flight from HND to HBA was pleasant, although it was a really ancient 747-400. Business class was just as ancient, but still lie flat (very slight angle only) and that’s what’s counts. The Qantas staff was super nice, attentive, and friendly, food was good and plentiful. And they had the entire sixth season of…
Encore
Not quite finished with Japan yet. I was really surprised how easy it is to get around these days. When I was there for the first time, many many years ago, there were no English signs, Western credit cards weren’t accepted and the ticket machines didn’t speak English either. These days, it’s almost disappointingly simple.…
Kyoto now
Kyoto was kind of cute. I mean, obviously a tourist destination both for foreigners and natives, but still a nice place to visit. Plus they have a fantastic International Manga Museum 😁. We spent Christmas there as did lots of Japanese as well, apparently one of the Christmas traditions is to take your partner out…