Tasmania, Day 1

3.40 am, and Frankie wakes me up 20 minutes before my ‘alarm’ was due to ring … good doggie… and between my sister and Frankie, I manage to catch the Airport bus on time … 90 minutes later I am at Melbourne airport…

Me and Terri waiting for departure … cousins Nola and Maureen

Another 90 minutes I’m finally on the plane with my 5 cousins, and up through the clouds we fly to Tasmania …

Up through the clouds we soar and above the clouds we fly

We see Tasmania through the clouds, and then approaching Hobart Airport
Touchdown and we are in our hire car
First stop was the historic township, Richmond. I did some wine sampling and cousin Terri checked out the Peppercorn Gallery
The Richmond Bakery and the historic Richmond Bridge

We leave the picturesque Richmond village and head up to Launceston, stopping at Ross on the way … Nola in front of the rustic Ross Bakery … we liked the old fashioned Bakeries

Arrived at our accommodation in Launceston and go out for dinner at the Royal Oak Hotel, Jeff and Terri and the six of us cousins, where we all enjoyed fabulous hospitality

Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

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  9. It is very rewarding to look at all the pictures. These pictures tell so much about your lovely trip to Tasmania. Looking forward to see what all of you are up to in Tasmania during the coming days! 🙂
    Greetings from Uta in the Illawarra of NSW 🙂

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  13. What a fabulous day. Super images too.
    Where’s Frankie, is he staying with your old friend Sue?

    Sorry for working backwards on your posts. I’m on another catchup because I’ve been busy creating a new project, I’m still working on it but I wanted to read about your family get together in Tasmania. 🙂

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  14. Tasmania are of the best trips we’ve taken. One by Spirit of Tasmania to and from. Hubby hated the 20 metre swells going over but the glass like sea was beautiful on our return. We flew in the other 3 times but our 4th was cancelled due to Covid. We’re still to plan that 4th trip. I’d love to spend a night gramping on Maria Island for the Tasmanian Devil expedition.

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