{"id":646,"date":"2008-01-05T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T00:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/new-year-in-tasmania\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T00:06:36","slug":"new-year-in-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/new-year-in-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year in Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been in Tasmania for a week now and apparently we&#8217;ve had unusually good weather.  Lee has been great, not long before his wedding and he arranged for a friend to pick me up from the airport and accommodation at his shack near the beach.<\/p>\n<p>So far we&#8217;ve had a night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaloncoastalretreat.com.au\/\">Avalon<\/a>, an amazing holiday home on the coast near Hobart.  As you can see below the house has beautiful views and it&#8217;s amazingly well set up, pretty much anything you can think of needing is there.  We had a few drinks and a barbecue and enjoyed the views.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/AvalonLivingRoomView_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/AvalonLivingRoomView_t.jpg\" title=\"View from inside the living room at Avalon.\" alt=\"View from inside a largely glass building, furnished in a modern style.  Outside is a wooden desk with some people sitting on it, then the sea and sky.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/AvalonDeckView_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/AvalonDeckView_t.jpg\" title=\"View from the deck at Avalon.\" alt=\"View from a wooden deck overlooking a bay with clear blue water.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/AvalonSideView_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/AvalonSideView_t.jpg\" title=\"View up the side of Avalon.\" alt=\"View along the side of a modern glass and steel house by the sea.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve started in Hobart at the Taste of Tasmania, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobartsummerfestival.com.au\/\">Hobart&#8217;s summer festival<\/a>.  We only had time for a quick snack and a drink before they kicked us out to prepare for their ticket-only New Year&#8217;s Eve event.  Fortunately there is a very good pub nearby, Knopwood&#8217;s Retreat, where we spent a few hours having some beers and enjoying the sunshine before Lee&#8217;s fianc&eacute;e came to collect us and take us back to their shack.  After that my memories of the evening become a bit confused, but there was definitely a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ardbeg.com\/\">Ardbeg<\/a> involved.<\/p>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Day was quiet, we were all feeling a bit rough.<\/p>\n<p>On the second it was time for Lee&#8217;s buck&#8217;s party.  It started with a boat trip around part of the Tasman peninsula, great views of the cliffs, some wildlife and even snacks and wine.  After that it was to a nearby part of Eaglehawk Neck for barbecue and beers, continuing until it started to get light.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/BoatTripCave_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/BoatTripCave_t.jpg\" title=\"One of the sea caves from our boat trip round the Tasman peninsula.\" alt=\"A small cave in a cliff face, the sea foaming in and around the cave.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/BoatTripRocks_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/BoatTripRocks_t.jpg\" title=\"View from our boat trip round the Tasman peninsula.\" alt=\"A view of a headland with some isolated pinacles.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/InsideBoat_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Australia\/Tasmania\/InsideBoat_t.jpg\" title=\"Lee and some of his friends on the boat.\" alt=\"Inside a small boat, a group of people.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now I have to go and get ready for the wedding, more next time I get a chance to get on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been in Tasmania for a week now and apparently we&#8217;ve had unusually good weather. Lee has been great, not long before his wedding and he arranged for a friend to pick me up from the airport and accommodation at his shack near the beach. So far we&#8217;ve had a night at Avalon, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}