TAS - Accommodation Francais in Hobart
From: Paul and Janet Salmon
We booked in Hobart (from New Calédonie) at the
Signalman's Cottage Bed & Breakfast on Mount Nelson, just 5 kilometres
outside Hobart on a foothill of famous Mount Wellington. Our lodging
was a cosy self contained cottage in a bush setting - right at the gate
of the famous semaphore station. The warden's house is now a
delightful restaurant with a view of Hobart's River Derwent estuary to
die for! And all this was nearly French! Also we could not believe
that our host was also from France. Trés genial!
Tasmania and New Caledonia share the same discoverers -
Captain James Cook, LaPerouse, d'Entrecasteaux and Baudin. Always
conscious that the French and English navies were engaging in a race to
claim territory, I was knocked out to hear that the walls of a garden
planted in a southern bay by the party of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1792
had been rediscovered in 2002!
Our thanks to our hosts Loic Leguilly and Georgie - we
will be back. Hobart is worth a second look.
Cordialement,
Paul & Janet Salmon
Immeuble Beautemps-Beaupré
Appt 223, Pointe Brunelet,
8/10 rue P. Monchauvet
98800 NOUMEA
New Caledonia (South Pacific)
email: salmonpj@lagoon.nc
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