Day Three ... Tasmania

Tasmania! 

Day three in Tasmania included a trip to the Salamanca Market (only open on Saturday from 8:30 to 3 pm) and a short exploration of Richmond. 

Firstly let me say I haven't been sleeping so great at night, its as if my minds racing with a million different thoughts, ideas and dreams that I can't close my eyes and relax! So in turn I find myself saying "hey lets wake up at 7:30am and get there early!" when in reality I need another two hours of sleep! 

Anyways ... The Salamanca Markets was nice, the boyfriend and I were kinda disappointed though. We were both expecting a lot more from it. I was hoping for a lot more vintage/second hand items to buy and he was hoping for a wider variety of local produce instead of the same thing in pretty much every fresh produce stall. We ended up only spending two hours there (more than enough time to look at everything properly) We did have a rude experience with a man behind a stall selling knives (boyfriend is a chef, so any knife must be looked at). When asking a simple questioned he seemed pissed off! and instead of answering the question (by the way we were nothing but nice!) he pointed to picture frame with the info and said rather rudely "so I don't have to answer the same question all day". Now don't get me wrong I understand that it could be annoying, but when you're selling a product that cost $350 more than a frame with some words of information is needed! I don't know I'm rambling. Just thought it was really unnecessary. Apart from that everyone else we've meet in Tasmania has been heaps nice and so has the environment, I guess no matter where you go you're going to meet someone like that. 

We both though did buy some things which I'll put in a post at the end of the trip.

Hobart isn't the most bustling busy city like Sydney is, so it was disappointing to find that after the markets we really didn't know what to do?! Most things are closed on the weekend oddly enough? So we just decided to drive. My boyfriend is a cheese fanatic, but unfortunately Hobart isn't the place for great cheese? or maybe we couldn't find any? Anyways I found a place called Wicked Cheese Co. in Richmond so we headed in that direction. It's a small and friendly place with a small cheese tasting at the counter and some great cheese, we ended up buying some cheeses called wicked blue (blue cheese) and triple brie (so buttery!) They have a small cafe there so we had lunch there. I had the minestrone soup (average) and he had a ham with cheddar cheese turkish bread sandwich toasted (average) I also wanted to visit the bridge in Richmond so we just spent the afternoon hanging around and visiting the very small town of Richmond. Had a good time making jokes at the expense of the ducks. I love ducks. That's all from me today, night.