23rd October 2009

Today we went to the Cadbury factory in Claremont. Glenn spat the dummy that we had to pay $7.50 each to get in, but they did give us chocolates and boxes of Cadbury roses at the door, yummo. The chocolates here are so cheap! I had no idea how much mark up is on chocolates when you buy them at the supermarket.

There is no tour of the factory, just a dvd of the chocolate making process and a lady giving a talk on chocolate molds who only wanted to talk about her lawnmower, sigh, so we left.



They have lots of souvenirs here, mostly toys from their ads, like the drumming gorilla and the chocolate people, all very expensive. They had a beautiful purple hoody, but at $60 I thought I would give it a miss. I just bought a couple of postcards.



From here we went into Hobart, I don't know what it is about this place, I have been here a few times but I just can't warm up to it. I spent hours in the library going through rolls of microfiche and finally found the passenger list for "The Caroline" 1828, and I also had my hands on a copy of "The voyage of the Caroline", a book I have wanted to read for ages. Unfortunately for me you can't borrow this book and it was way too big to read in a couple of hours. Whilst I was at the library, Glenn bought a new battery for the car, Yippi! Now we can have the doors open and the tailgate up etc. without worrying that the car won't start. We then had Hungry Jacks, which was as pewky in Tasmania as it is in Victoria and headed south to the airwalk in Tahune.




We got to Geeveston and met some lovely people who were having the opening night of their pizza parlour.






One bloke said he would rent us a cabin for the night for $25. OMFG! When we saw the disgraceful, stinky shithole in the middle of what looked like a tip we left and went to the backpackers. I set up the car while Glenn got our money back. Had a great 8 hour sleep.