Australia day 8 – Hobart to Shearwater

We spend some time looking around Hobart city centre and taking advantage of MacDonalds’ wifi before picking up our hire car from Europcar and heading back to Shearwater.  Europcar are charging us more for fewer days because they have created a new booking at the current rates rather than simply amending the existing booking that we made on the internet when we were still in New Zealand.  It’s a pain because we will have to provide them with a copy of our original email confirmation in order to get a refund when we return the car.  The drive to Shearwater is through rolling farming country.  The weather which was grey this morning is now turning to blue skies and sunshine as we travel further north.  We stop along the way at a cheese factory shop on the side of the road, which has been recommended by Adrian as making the best cheese in Tasmania.  They have a tasting table and we work our way through nibbles of all the ‘English’ and not-so-English variants they produce.  Most of which, it has to be said, bare only a passing resemblance to their namesakes back home.  Nonetheless we buy a very nice French-style soft cheese, a wasabi flavoured cheddar (yummy) and a low-fat cheddar for Andy (not so yummy).