More Tasmanian Travels: February 16-24, 2007 Hobart, the state capital, was the next stop on our Tasmania travels. We had all looked forward to it but it almost didn’t happen. We had listened to many ‘seasoned’ travelers who assured us that there was no need to book accommodations ahead…it was, after all, off season, the end of summer etc etc…so when we began to hear that it might be tight, we began the saga of room seeking. After more than 20 phone calls, some of which had the clerk on the other end chuckling because ‘everything had been booked for months’, we were worried. It seems the weekend we had planned to be there coincided with an International Triathlon and a major cricket tourney, and the city was, as they say here, ‘chockers’ (that means full
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