I love Hobart, Tasmania having visited here in 2008. It is still a neat city and I did other things that I didn’t do last time I was here. Walked the city with Joan and Pat and even though I didn’t buy anything (except a birthday card for my friend James) had fun window shopping in the city mall. This sign on one of the stores naturally caught my eye since Joan and I are known as the Jay Jays.

One of the new places I visited was the very old Hadley Hotel which is Hobart’s answer to Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Certainly not as posh but interesting just the same. We did have a local beer here with our lunch.

I was quite tired since I had one of those sleepless nights so I went back to the ship for a nap. I did miss the shopping at Salamanca Place,

That evening Wayne and Pat had asked us to dine with them at Canalettos, the Italian Restaurant on the ship since sail away was around midnight. It was a very quiet dinner and actually a welcome relief from our table which is sometimes quite noisy and frenetic. I tried so hard to stay up for the sail away and the beginning of James birthday but at a little after 11:00 pm I began turning into a pumpkin.