Woke up to more rain. By now Stefano and I have had enough... Like real yuppies the only answer is to find a nice cottage style cafe and burn some time sipping on capucinos. From our capucinos in Richmond we
decided to head north-west to try and find warmer pastures. First stop though was the historic town of Port Arthur. Wandering around colonial buildings while the past isnechoed back at you... That's what the blurb said, or somethig like that, that is if you can get past the driving rain. There's a repeating theme here somewhere.
We only made it to Port Arthur around midday and by 5.30 the rain and cold drove us back to the car. We tried to find a caravan site near the Port Arthur site as we were returning at 8.30 for the scaaaarrrry ghost tour. Our tour guide lady appeared quite sincere in her belief of the haunted nature of the Port Arthur site. Alas, nothing otherworldy happened to our tour group aside from a door closing on it's own (wind??? Or ghosts)...and really with a group of 20 people its was never going to be truly scary. The next day dawned a bit clearer without the freezing rain of other mornings. Still, both Stefano and I were a bit jaded by the continued shit weather. Even pancakes with nutella had little impact. We were tempted to take another look at Hobart but the weather forecast looked better the further north we went so we opted for somewhere around wineglass bay. True enough the wheather has improved as we have come north, and we have vowed to really relax and take things slowly to try and enjoy the places we are stopping.
Hopefully tommorow brings 30c and sunshine.
decided to head north-west to try and find warmer pastures. First stop though was the historic town of Port Arthur. Wandering around colonial buildings while the past isnechoed back at you... That's what the blurb said, or somethig like that, that is if you can get past the driving rain. There's a repeating theme here somewhere.
We only made it to Port Arthur around midday and by 5.30 the rain and cold drove us back to the car. We tried to find a caravan site near the Port Arthur site as we were returning at 8.30 for the scaaaarrrry ghost tour. Our tour guide lady appeared quite sincere in her belief of the haunted nature of the Port Arthur site. Alas, nothing otherworldy happened to our tour group aside from a door closing on it's own (wind??? Or ghosts)...and really with a group of 20 people its was never going to be truly scary. The next day dawned a bit clearer without the freezing rain of other mornings. Still, both Stefano and I were a bit jaded by the continued shit weather. Even pancakes with nutella had little impact. We were tempted to take another look at Hobart but the weather forecast looked better the further north we went so we opted for somewhere around wineglass bay. True enough the wheather has improved as we have come north, and we have vowed to really relax and take things slowly to try and enjoy the places we are stopping.
Hopefully tommorow brings 30c and sunshine.
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