Monday, January 25th
It's Australia Day tomorrow and we find ourselves in Hobart with Jamie and Nera. They invited us to join them on this excursion while Jamie tried his new car: a Nissan Murano AWD, not unlike the Ford Territory I used to pull our van.
We're staying in Cedar Cottage, a very nice little place in Blackman's Bay and spent today on Bruny Island. The last time we were here was Easter, 2011and nothing much has changed. The car ferry has been updated but the roads are still third -world. Still, it was a great day and made me think of a book I read recently. It's called Bruny and is by Heather Rose, a local author.
It's a good read about a plan to build a bridge to Bruny using Chinese money. There's a twist, of course and some locals turn the tide on the baddies and win the day. I don't know why Bruny Island is so popular with tourists. There are very few places to stay and to eat but there were 100 cars lined up to get the ferry this morning and that 's not unusual. Maybe it 's the mystique of the lonely island that draws people in.
Just after we left Bruny back in 2011 we signed the papers to buy the property at Dilston. Well, that chapter's closed and we have all moved on.
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