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I've just descovered these we face thingys so i thought i'd give y'all a big cheesy grin!
After our great week in Perth we had to fly to Melbourne in order to get our onward flight to Tasmania..aha..ha..ha! As i hadn't really done the hostel thing in Melbourne when i'd been there before we decided to spend a couple of days down in St. Kilda the beach town. We stayed in a hostel called base backpackers in the 'girls only sanctuary' which meant we got lovely feather bedding, an Aveda pack with towel and a cup of tea brought in to us in the morning at weekends (bit like being at home really!)
Our flight to Tazmaina was a short wobbily one (i think they put the trainees on this flight because the air hostesses looked really young and captain sounded about twelve!) there were some stunning views flying over Tazzy though. We spent one of our first days visiting Port Arthur which was a prison base a few centuaries ago for people who had been convicted to Australia and had since re-offended. This was a lovely little place (probibly not for them) but now the sun was shining, the birds were singing and we were even graced with a visit by some members of the Dutch Royal Family (blesses!)
We managed to save a few bob by staying with a family friend a girl called Sharon who's dad is good freinds with mine. She had a really sweet house built literally up a the hill over looking Sandy Bay in Hobart and she kindly leant us her car so we could go of and explore. We spent the next few days pottering around Sandy bay, going to the Salamanca markets in Hobart (where i ate easily the best lamb kerbab i've ever had), visiting the Coal Valley wine region, the blow hole on the east coast, and descovered a really charming little town called 'Do town' where all the houses are given names like 'do-little', 'doodle-do' etc. (cool!) The weather was fairly irratic over the 5 days we were there, the first day was lovely and hot and the following evening large snow flakes were falling from the sky, very strange!
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