Bay of Fires
Still enthused by the culinary delights consumed at Eureka, we drove down to Binalong Bay. What a nice place. This is certainly one of the absolute highlights of our trip. Fantastic apartment (thru Air Bob again, I mean AirBnB but since autocorrection insists on either Air Bob wtf? Or Airbus we’ll use Air Bob henceforth),…
Port Sorell
We decided to take a little detour on purpose and take the southern route because that provided an excuse to stop by the beloved Eureka Farm again. Soooo delicious, again and again. I’m still heartbroken that I probably won’t be going there ever again. 😔 We also made another pitstop at St Mary’s and then…
Paradise Lost
Perhaps it’s time to make it clear that I really despise AirBnB. It’s a tax dodging scheme that gives ‘landlords’ an unfair advantage by allowing them to ignore regulations that ‘official’ businesses have to adhere to. Alas, it is impossible to find accommodation outside this scheme in some areas, so I have to use it…
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…