Landing in Hobart, Tasmania 26th June 2007

We got to the airport with no problems, I was asleep within 2 minutes on getting on the plane, Hannah said. She said she went to sleep too as we were up at 5am. That's the earliest we have been up since being home in the UK.
We landed in Hobart on time and the airport is tiny. With only 1 carousel for the baggage and a policeman and his sniffer dog check all the passengers as we waited for our bags.

Got our car from AVIS, some directions for the city centre and tourist info. Then drove off in our bright yellow compact Hyundai Gets car. We got the tourist info with no problems and went inside. The girl behind the desk was not too helpful but gave us a little information for our trip around Tasmania. She gave us a few hostel names and numbers so we thought we'd get our accommodation sorted for tonight before anything else.

The first place we saw was nice overall, but the bed looked old and its slumped in the middle. So we said we would get back to her and ran out of there. We drove around looking at the others from the outside and decided to leave it until later and go have some fun. So we drove to the Putter's mini golf course and spent a few hours playing. Hannah won the first, an indoor course with crazy holes that once you pottered the ball it went was sucked into a tube an sent to the next hole. Really good fun. I won the second game but only because I fluked 2 holes in 1.

We tried the YHA around the corner to the golf, for a room. When we got there the reception was closed but the woman running it saw us and came over. She looked pretty ill and seemed nice enough. We told her we were looking for a room for the night and could we see it(as we have done in the past). She then started saying "I'm not wasting my time showing you the room, inthis cold, bad weather. I've been ill for three weeks. Its a YHA, you either want it or you don't). So thinking have rude is she we said no thank you and walked straight out. We found a nice motel around the corner from that and stayed there for about 12 dollars more a night.We went out from some food that night and had a really nice curry, just down the street. Then went to bed, ready for the convict trail tomorrow.