Monday 21st January. On to Tassie!

We had another early start as Virgin Australia had decided to reschedule our Hobart flight to 07:40 so up just before 5 am! In line with our philosophy of travelling light, which has served us very well so far, we planned to leave one of our cases at the Holiday Inn, Sydney Airport where we will be staying on Thursday night. So we asked the taxi driver to stop off there and luckily this time our driver spoke very good English and was really helpful.

An excellent flight even if it was on Wa Brazilian Embraer plane ( didn't mention to the lovely lady wife that we were flying on a Brazilian plane).

Our hire car was duly picked up at Hobart airport and as soon as we arrived in Hobart we knew we were going to like it. A small, fairly compact city built around another glorious natural harbour and it literally sparkled in the beautiful sunny, warm and fresh weather.

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We checked into our very smart hotel, the Henry Jones Art Hotel, left our car and set off to explore Hobart. The guide book (newly purchased) was again very helpful with a suggested walk around the historic areas and the waterfront

After a brief pit stop for an excellent antipasto platter and a rocket salad (with a glass of a Tassie pinot gris) we had decided to take the ferry to the Mona (Museum of Old and New Art) which has become quite famous in Australia and later on the return ferry we met two Australian ladies who had travelled from the Melbourne area just to see it.

As you can see from the photo below, the building is rather strange and inside it descends into the depths with  badly lit rooms (badly lit on purpose). The exhibits were mainly very modern art with a few egyptian antiquities and other artifacts. It was certainly interesting but I can't say we particularly enjoyed or appreciated it.

We thought the exhibit in the photo below was one of the more interesting ones. This is a type of waterfall with various words, which are meant to be representative of the modern world, being projected onto the cascading water.

An excellent fish meal a the Blue Skies restaurant on the harbour front rounded off a great day in Hobart.