Hobart visit
We flew direct from Brisbane - that was great. Could see the familiar shape of Tassie (!) from the air as we approached the north east corner - from 11,000m the horizon is a long way off.
Stayed at the Old Woolstore Hotel - not bad - all built within the walls of the store with the huge old sliding hardwood doors still in place and the saw tooth roof line.
Standing around in the foyers are bails of merino wool, prize ribbons from woolclassing and even an olden day wood and steel woolpress or cleaning machine or something.
We did the on-foot Hobart - walked for miles over the few days.
There are starfish on the bottom of the boat harbour! Took the tourist bus to the top of Mt Wellington (we were the only passengers) and walked down for two hours via the stone tracks. That generated nicely noticeable calf muscles for the rest of the holiday! Its beaut on top at 1270m - there was frost in the shade on the ground even at midday. The shrouded tower is a transmitter protected from clumps of ice forming and breaking or crashing down.
The winter solstice festival was on if you looked for it. We liked the fact that there were not many signboards or billboards around at all. The Hobart connection with Antarctica was being celebrated and that was very interesting. We had to have a second visit to the museum to try to get through a bit more of it.
The penguin and albatross candle lit night parade was good.
We went looking for a bit of winter and we got some!
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