Homeward Bound 🙁
Our last day was fairly relaxed. Our flight from Launceston was not until 10:20am and the hotel was only under 10 minutes away. We packed the bulk of our bags the night before, and had a cruisy morning of showers, breakfast and pack up the car. We got to the airport...
Bath and Bubbles
A bath and a glass of bubbles is how today ended… Let’s start at the beginning. We had breakfast in our apartment before heading our and traveling up the western side of the Tamar River. Our first stop was the Tamar Valley Wine Centre. The website said… “The Tamar...
Monkeys and More Markets
After a good nights sleep, we got up, had showers and drove to town to the Grand Chancellor Hotel for their buffet breakfast. It was very good and we were both pleasantly full when we left.A short walk to the end of the street is the City Park. This is a lovely park...
The Market and the Mall
Every Saturday the Launceston Harvest Market is on in the centre of town. I had planned on getting the bus, but a look at the Metro app told me the busses were an hour apart on the weekend 🙁 so drive it was. It was not difficult to find a park (metered until 11:30am...
Ambling Back to Launceston.
Today we head back to Launceston. The trip up the main highway is only about 200kms but I planned to wind our way in off the highway and look at some of the small historic towns we have not seen before and revisit some we have. The first stop was Riversdale Estate. ...
A Little Further Afield
Today we drove a little west to revisit places we had been before. Sadly, things change and sometimes not for the best 🙁 Our first stop was the Salmon Ponds. We have been here a few times and it is always great fun feeding the trout and salmon. At times the ponds...
Let them eat…everything!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We got up this morning after a very comfortable nights sleep. A light breakfast was in order today, as today is our visit to the “Taste” festival. We caught the bus to town, had a coffee/tea at a cafe, used some free wifi (thanks SanChurro 😀) to post...
Lake St Clair to Hobart
After a relaxing night in our Wilderness Cabin, we got up and ready early for a 7:00am breakfast. We decided to go for a walk around the lodge park and have a look at Lake St Clair. I could see from the map we had, that there was a jetty not far from our cabin. It...
A Day in the Wilderness
We had breakfast and packed up the car ready to leave for the Wilderness Railway. Before we left, I made sure to suitably clean the unit so as not to get a $50 charge 😀 We arrived at Regatta Point station in plenty of time to check in and get our boarding pass for the...
Sunday – Rest Day
They say Sunday is a day of rest, and that is what we had planned :). A whole lot of nothing. One of the reasons for revisiting Strahan is to ride on the Wilderness Railway, but it does not run on a Sunday. The plan is to have a rest day, do a load of washing and...
A Big Drive Day
Today was one of our longest drive days at 184 kms. Although Google maps might say 2 and a half hours, we knew that it would take a lot longer than that.We had breakfast in our motel room, loaded up the car and headed west just after 8:00am I knew that there was not...
Cheese, Chocolate and Murals
We had a good night’s sleep and did actually have bit of a sleep in, not waking until just after 5:00am. 🙂 After hot showers and poached eggs for breakfast we packed up the car, checked out, and headed west to Deloraine. We stopped at the information centre where...
Off We Go!!
And we are off:) After a lovely Christmas Day lunch with family, we had a quiet night, finalised packing and we were ready to go. We still did not have a sleep in 🙁 (Up at 4:30 am as usual) We had breakfast, a bit of a tidy up , packed the car and headed off to the...
Ready for a Christmas break in Tasmania 2024 -2025
A couple of months ago, I asked M where we wanted to go for our Christmas break this year. The way Christmas falls this year means we will close up work on Friday the 20th and will open back up on the 6th. We have not spent a Christmas Day with his family for couple...
Home Again
We set the alarm early, but we both woke before it. We finished packing our suitcases, went down and had breakfast before checking out. We got a taxi to the airport, checked our bags and waited in the Virgin Lounge until our flight. It was an uneventful flight home....
Last Day in Adelaide
Another quiet day for our last day in the city. A quick bus trip to Elder Park and a sightseeing trip on the iconic “Popeye” This service has been running since 1939 delighting Adeliade locals and tourists alike. The 45 minute trip up and back on the Torrens River...
Wine, Railway Station and Glenelg
I had planned a fairly easy day today. First was a visit to the National Wine Centre. This is located quite close to the CBD in the Botanic Gardens. The centre has self-guided walk with lots of sign boards explaining the history of the wine industry as well as...
Kangaroo Island – Day 2
After a busy day yesterday, we slept very well in a lovely comfortable bed. Given the lack of food yesterday, we thought we would use up the rest of the ham and make some sandwiches to take with us today just in case needed them tonight. Our plan was to ask the driver...
Kangaroo Island – Day 1
Today we are setting off on a 2 day organised tour of Kangaroo Island. When I began researching this trip, I quickly discovered Kangaroo Island was going to be expensive. With the need for a hire car, the ferry fare and the time to get there and back, this tour...
Quiet Rest Day
After the last two busy days, we had a rest day today. We slept in a bit later and went down for breakfast. We had spoken to Nicole from the restaurant and had arranged to collect a couple of eggs and some cereal today in preparation for us to cook our own breakfast...
