I love the symmetry of these rows. And the fact that they’re 15 minutes from the city centre.
Archive for July, 2008
Moorilla Vines
Posted in Tasmania, Vineyards on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sublime Sunday
Posted in Eating, Tasmania, Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Started the day with a tour of Sandy Bay, breakfast at the Beach House Cafe (which MDH loved because the classic car guys were there with their very beautiful bonnets open) and then a trip to the Brezel Backerie for eachte brezelen and Hill Street Grocer on our way back to Moorilla for lunch. Swearing [...]
Salamanca Saturday
Posted in Eating, Tasmania, Uncategorized on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spent the day wandering around Salamanca Market – MDH was delighted to find a Dutch Olliebollen vendor and treated me to a couple of fruity deep-fried donuts rolled in sugar. That was sufficient to fuel us through a retail safari, several cafe stops and finally to stop at the dockside apartment for the night. Off [...]
Marvellous Moorilla
Posted in Tasmania on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve ever bragged that if you had millions of dollars to spare you’d do something really worthwhile with them…then you’ll need to come to Moorilla Estate to see where David Walsh has spent his $100m or so and set the benchmark for you! This is the view from our one bedroom ‘pavilion’, perched on [...]
Cygnet
Posted in Tasmania on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Danger Signs
Posted in Tasmania on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Morning in a chilly paradise
Posted in Tasmania on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The water in the birdbath was frozen but the view from the snuggy warm bed over the tranquil bay at Cygnet was just fine. We loved our first night here, thanks to our stay at Fairlight
The D’Entrecasteaux Channel
Posted in Eating, Tasmania on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can’t help but compare this part of the world with the inland waters around Vancouver Island in Canada. An older, more careworn version perhaps. But still a lovely, moody, unspoilt, mesmerising body of water, 30 minutes from Hobart. Taken from an indulgent pit stop at Peppermint Bay, where afternoon tea involved apple crumble with blackberry [...]
Rental Car Insurance Scam?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A nasty surprise greeted us at Hobart Arport. Went to the Avis desk to pick up our hire car. Was confronted by a laminated sign with badly chosen cartoon art and fonts that the choice for dealing with claims excess was, as they say in Victoria, “buckleys or none!”. Choice was: a) pay the excess [...]
Hobart ‘Hood
Posted in Tasmania on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If it’s a Georgian cottage, we must be in Hobart, right?
