Would you like a map of Tassie?

 You know you're a proper adult when you go on holidays. Not so proper when you choose a destination because of cheap flights. Even though we had heard only good things about Tasmania, we didn't really think out travelling, pretty much, to Antarctica in the middle of winter. It was freezing, I mean freezing, so cold your chest hurt to breath- freezing. Well, that was at night and I am the kind of person that thinks having the heater on in spring is acceptable/perfectly normal. BUT it was still cold.

Us in our thermals, before our extra 5 layers

  There are a few things I will never understand about holidaying and one of them is exercise and the other is dieting. Not only do people go to this freezing cold part of the world they also walk around for days on end in the highest parts of the island eating rations and sleeping in tents, for fun! I can barely believe it let alone begin to understand why. So this holiday was designed to be a holiday. We woke up at 12noon had coffee for an hour and read the paper then meandered around the city until we got hungry. Then we ate lots for dinner.

  We found the most lovely little bakery / cafe called 'Pigeon Hole Bakery', a gorgeous husband and wife team with mighty fine bread and very good coffee. We spent a lot of time there as well as a cafe called 'Pilgrim Coffee', they use Axil coffee from Melbourne. It's a bit of a wanky place in the middle of Hobart, but the coffee was rather good, if you don't mind the 5 minute spiel on the raspberry flavours  you'll be tasting five hours later.

  We also had a marvellous time sampling all the cheeses from Nick Haddow's Bruny Island Cheese Company. James favoured the 'Tom' but I absolutely loved the 'C2', the only raw milk cheese commercially produced in Australia. The rest of Bruny Island was also quite enjoyable, it was very rugged and wild and very cold, but absolutely beautiful and full of kangaroos and wallabies (my favourite).

  MONA was, of course, amazing. We caught the ferry over, the most upmarket ferry I've ever seen, and made a day trip of it. Rather nice indeed.

On the Ferry

At MONA

Pretty Mona staircases

And that's all the photos we took, because we're rats