If you remember back, we didn’t arrive into Hobart until late Friday night. We were staying on a rural property so we had no idea what the surrounds even looked like. On Saturday morning we awoke to the most amazing sight – we were surrounded by beautiful farmland on a beautiful homestead and it was wonderful wandering around and taking in the sights of this once working farm in the early morning sunlight. The cottage we were in was once the farm managers cottage and we even had the old original windows to look out from – it had been restored so well!
We had a feast for breakfast that the owners left in the fridge for us and before we knew it we were all checked out and ready to head back into Hobart for the Salamanca Market.
The market was awesome – but expensive. If some of the stall owners were to drop their prices a tad I am sure they would make a lot more sales. There were a lot people looking but not many buying.
We all split up and decided to meet back at the car at 12 – enough time to take a quick drive around and then head back to the airport.
I managed to see the whole market and I wanted something nice to take back with me but again, it was all very overpriced. At the top of the hill I came across a jewelry stand where it wasn’t that expensive and the pieces were lovely. I didn’t want to buy the necklace that I saw until I saw all the other vendors. In walking back down the hill I bumped into mum and we both basically said the same thing at the same time.. “There is the nicest jewelry on the top of the hill and I found the best necklace” You guessed it – same place, same necklace. We went back up and I got that one – just as another lady was looking at it! Sally recommended we make a purchase from the Federation Chocolate stall and I definitely trust Sally’s chocolate recommendations – she knows her stuff! We bought some big freckles and rocky road we were not disappointed!
Check out the second hand Tupperware stall – so very very dangerous I just had to turn away and not go back in that direction!
We had another drive around some of the scenic parts of Hobart and then made our way to the airport – our whirlwind trip around Tassie was at its end! Here is Bill about the board the plane… I got a tsk tsk from a security guard for taking this.. pfft! Bill was absolutely horrified at the shorts the guy in front of us was wearing. His New England sensibilities really come out at times…!