Tasmania

Travel and Leisure rated Tasmania #2 in the "World's Best" Islands Awards

Top 10 Islands

Launceston

Favourite Restaurants

• Red Feather Inn - historic restaurant set in a rustic coaching inn featuring fine cuisine
• Cropline's Coffee (Heather's home away from Aussie home)
• Calabrisella Restaurant
• Elaia Cafe
• Fresh on Charles - friend of Heather's & Adam's too!
• Konditorei Cafe Manfred
• Lawrence Street Brasserie
• Le Cafe
• Country Club Resort - we got married here.  :)  They were very good & very nice!
• The Metz Cafe/Bar
• The Swiss Chocolatier
• Cucina Simpatica
• Fish 'n Chips - Old Launceston Seaport

Favourite Sites

• Glenhaven - best haven in Tasmania!!!  Go take a look!  DEFINITELY a can't miss!!!!!
• Oatlands - Stu and Heather's childhood home
• The Cataract Gorge
• Vineyards - we especially like Tamar Ridge owned by Joe Chromy, a friend of the family.  He has won many awards with his Reislings, sparkling wine (Jansz) & other fine varietals.
• Gibbet Hill - It was here that they hung a bushranger named Mackay (or McKay) who had murdered a passenger on a mail coach. They hung him on the peak of the hill in a gibbet (a big hanging cage) as a warning to those who might feel like robbing a passing mail coach.  They left him there until his body decomposed.  People believe it has been haunted ever since.
• The Design Centre of Tasmania

Hobart

Favourite Restaurants

• Mit Zitrone
• Mures - great fish & chips

Favourite Sites

• Salamanca Markets
• Victoria Docks
• Port Arthur

Other Locations

• Bay of Fires - this is one of the most beautiful beaches we have even seen (ranks right up there with the beaches of Cancun, Hawaii & kills any California ones).  Pure white sand, crystal blue water.

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