tirsdag 27. januar 2009

Back to Hobart.

We left Devonport Friday night(the 23rd), and have had a lovely long weekend in Hobart, staying with a local guy called James Parry! The long weekend was because of Australia Day on Monday, like 17.mai, just without the parades:) We went to the beach, and James held a concert(turns out he is a very talented musician!) and then we drove from barbeque to barbeque, just like every australian does that day, it is all about summer and sun and barbeque and not have to work.
Interestingly enough, the Indigenous people call it Invation Day, so to honour them and tell the world we see their side of the story too, and that it is a horrible story, we wore stickers with the Aboriginal Flag, in black and red with a yellow sun in the middle.
All in all it was a good day!
The rest of the time in Hobart, we have been fixing money stuff in the bank, gone to the museum, James has shown us the inside of Knockwood, that's an institution in Hobart, a pub that is more than 100 years old, called Nobby by the australians(why oh why do they have to make shortnames for everuthing? Aussie(Australia/australian), Tassie(Tasmania), Oz(Australia), Tas Vac( Tasmanian Vacuum Cleaners) and so on and so on.. Everything should end with ssie... or something:) Hahaha!) and read a lot of books and basically not been stressed out:) It's been a good week, and as we knew, so much more is going on in Hobart, compared to Devonport.. Turns out Devonport is the 3rd biggest city in Tassie(hehehe), and it is small... Well, all of Tassie(hehehe) is 500 000 people, so it is not the biggest place ever:) But Hobart has got charm and a good musicscene, it's share of the worlds happy hippies and nice cafees, and is not at all a bad place to stay for a few days:)
And now we're going to see the museum again, didn't have time to see it all yesterday!
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