hobart bo-ho hobo

amazing how it happens
you think about going to hobart (well, tassie, but including hobart)
and then the design files puts up a "week in hobart" file
click the map for design files shopping & eating spots!


1. places to eat

basket & green cafe
179 Elizabeth Street (corner of Elizabeth and Brisbane),
island espresso
171 elizabeth st, hobart (they serve toasties with heidi farm cheese. yum)

• 33 salamanca place - doctor coffee (also bakery at 58 collins st)

yellow bernard, 109 collins st - cafe

pigeon hole cafe, 93 goulburn st, west hobart

south hobart food store, 356 Macquarie St, Hobart, Australia
wursthaus kitchen 1 Montpelier Retreat, Battery Point
- gourmet traveller voted this one of the top five food stores in australia,
[apparently they stock heidi farm cheeses - including a tilsit]

good bakery, jackson & mcross, 57 hampden rd, battery point - known for sourdough, patries, and lots of pies including lamb & rosemary, and slow-cooked beef

scallop pies - apparently legendary, first appearing on hobart's wharves in the early 1800s; there is a scallop pie rater blog which lists good (and average) pies sampled by the blogger and his readers. some of the best seem to be in the middle of tassie, hamilton, a servo just before you turn off for stanley

takeaway at franklins wharf; also flipper fish punt at constitution dock (where the 1833 sculpture comes from, i think), fish frenzy at elizabeth st pier or mures at victoria dock

2. cultural, social, historical

• number 1 priority = MONA


• maritime museum
cnr argyle and davey streets


• tasmanian museum & art gallery

• the shipwrights arms, 29 trumpeter st, battery point - apparently a generous fisherman's basket, apparently, too - "Legend has it that the pub was connected to the nearby slipway by a tunnel that the drunk and incoherent were bundled down onto understaffed boats"

• apparently the knopwoods retreat is a good pub, 39 salamanca place, a hobart "institution" - where the locals hang out

3. let's go shopping

hobart shopping guide (via design files)

cwa shop.
165 elizabeth st, hobart

northgate flea, food, famers & antiques market (every sunday), northgate shopping centre carpark, main rd, glenorchy (near moonah, where my family lived during the 60s)

books!

22 salamanca square, hobart bookshop specialising in tassie, literature and poetry. chris pearce opened this shop in 1990 with janet grecian, but his dad, cedric was one of hobart's best-known booksellers, at fullers, 1946-1981

speaking of fullers, 131 collins st, hobart

in sandy bay
the market, masonic temple, 3 sandy bay road

giant tassie-shaped freckles, nonpareil confectionary, 11 mayfair shopping plaza, sandy bay

speaking of maps of tasmania, here's amanda palmer singing about hers,

more girly, crafty shops etc (via design files)and just for

• inside home and gifts, 90 murray st


• love & clutter, 31 murray st


• store & co, 130 macquarie st


• ruby's room, 127 macquarie st


• the maker, shop 005, 77 salamanca place

mount wellington


go up the big hill that looms over hobart, you can drive up and take in the view or go bush-walking
the "lost world" track - google map says where it is
it might be cold up there! photos of eucalypt-scented ice-blocks by local blogger, little glowing lights

dad's painting of hobart and mount wellington in the mid-60s when the family lived there.

there's the tiniest chance that we'll be in tasmania when the aurora australis is visible - the top of mount wellington is apparently a good vantage point when the aurora(s) flare up. i've signed up to get an alert just in case there's aurora action. recent thread on the topic on trip-adviser

new norfolk - antique shops, like the drill hall emporium,

back to nature / out of hobart
east coast, orford, and maybe a stop at spring beach -- where my mummy and daddy had their honeymoon, back in 1963.

they stayed at a holiday house (perhaps like this one?) owned by quakers, who were so loving of all creatures great and especially small, they had little mouse holes built into the cottage to give mice free run of the house. mum says you could hear them scurrying around at night. you can see maria island from spring beach. in june, the ferry travels twice a day on sundays/fridays (9.30 pm triabunna to darlington, maria island) and fro (4.00 pm). so we may miss out, unless we make a special trip. $50 return per adult.

things to do and see in the area