The final stop in the Tassie Adventure was Launceston, Tasmania's second largest 'city'. Nowhere near as beautiful as Hobart and sadly lacking in atmosphere it was a bit disappointing. We stayed just outside the city in a suburb called Grindelwald which amused the Harry Potter fan in me, in a strange thing called a Swiss Village...a collection of small villas clustered around a small lake (pond) and a golf course. Our villa was basically a large-ish room with two...

On leaving Port Arthur we hit the coast road to Coles Bay which is the portal to Freycinet National Park on the East coast, a peninsula covered in white sand coves, beautiful forest and interesting rock formations.It was beautiful. We were staying in a holiday village in a strange six person lodge with bunkbeds and a kitchen. We were really tired so decided to watch a movie and cook dinner ourselves - a marvellous feast of spaghetti in a jar of tomato sauce with ...

So when I left you last I was just going to go to bed early as we had to get up at 6am to catch our flight to Tasmania. My plan backfired slightly when Susie logged into Skype and I got to talk to her, Mum, Catherine, Jo, Lou, George, Grace, Samuel and Joshua on the web cam! It was so exciting and best of all FREE! I managed to crawl out of bed and we caught our flight with no dramas. We then had to pick up our shiny hire car. I was a bit apprehensive about hav...