Post hiking, we had two nights in Hobart. Much of it was spent avoiding stairs and walking uphill (!). The highlights:

01. A boat trip to the Iron Pot, Australia’s oldest lighthouse (and the scenery on the way was impressive – I particularly loved seeing a very old apple-pickers hut among the multi-million dollar homes at Battery Point).

02. A glass of mead at Tom McHugo’s.

03. Dinner at Aloft. The whole meal was sensational but if I had to pick highlights it would be the scallop and nasturtium leaf nam jim jaew; the crispy chilli eggplant; the blue-eye trevalla with zucchini, dill and horseradish; and to drink, the Manilow cocktail (gin and mandarin) and the 2022 Deep Valley Blaufrankisch from the Derwent Valley (there’s no more Deep Valley available, so I’ve already hunted down other wineries producing Blaufrankisch).

04. An afternoon wandering the galleries around Salamanca, where I came across this little gem of a book by Ella Lim.

05. As always, the waterfront.