Ah tassie, land of uncomprehensible cartoon characters......................well this and so much more. Often compared to scotland by travellers i've met, tassie is quirky. I like that. For example on arriving into Hobart the roof's of all the buildings are different colours, each house has something a little different about it, they are all individual and thats why it works. Kind of gives it a quaint fishing village look to it (except for the larger buildings in the city centre of course but there aren't really huge skyscrapers here). So Day one: Hobart Following the advice of a nice polish girl in my room I decided to do a circuit of the city which involved walking beside a river (stream really, thats an exageration) to the ex women's prison (now a historical site with fudge shop -yummy)
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