Mon.5th Oct. Long drive over to the East side today. We started out with grey skies and temps. of 12 degrees. First stop was Scotsdale at the forestry commission's eco centre. It's an amazing, strange building which is built to be as eco friendly as possible. The ground floor is a good information centre, shop and café. Next stop Branksholm which is a very tidy small community which had planted trees after ww1 for each soldier from the area who was kille...

Sun.4th Oct. The hotel is very nice and a cooked breakfast is a civilized way to start the day.The house was built in 1862 for the mayor of Launceston and has been a private hospital before being completely renovated and turned into a select small hotel where they even put a decanter of port in the lounge for guests to help themselves.Just one snag we shouldn't be here we should be in the motel next door.We had booked over the internet through one of the last min...

Sat 3rd Oct. in Tasmania Friday was quite eventful we did really well packing up but the house owners had said leave the keys on the table and the door will lock when closed.I said to Joe "we are bound to leave something and it will be something crucial" and we did and it was, my handbag containing the tickets to Tasmania and all the usual ,phone, money ….Both neighbors have keys but neither were home.Luckily we had a mobile number for one of them and...