Salamanca market was great, full of people, but a really nice market. Ended up buying lots of yummy food, and some fresh and organic veggies for my meals for the rest of the time I'm in Hobart. Also bought some Tasmanian wood spoons, which are nice and light souvenirs for the folks back home! Sassafraz and Huon pine are trees that are only in Tasmania, so I thought they'd make good gifts. They're really lovely woods as well - Huon pine is nice and light, whilst the Sassafraz is quite a dark brown.

The market apparently started off as just a small and local people's market with people selling off their wares, but it gradually got taken over with people selling their merchandise and so on. There's all sorts there now - souvenirs (made in China....), fresh breads, homemade biccies, t-shirts, cards, jewellery, toiletries, etc. I had some lovely veggie spring rolls, and some tempura mushrooms for lunch, mmmmmm. Also some scrumptious Valhalla ice cream which is Tasmanian born, bred, and made. Lyell said that it started off as a school boy experiment and basically just took off like a storm! Has some nice flavours, but I went with my age old favourite of mint choc chip - mmmmmmm.
There's also a lovely chocolate shop and they had the cutest little chocolate bilby's and penguins! I did want to buy a bilby, but I knew I wouldn't be able to bring myself to eat him, so I left them in the shop. I'm actually surprised by the amount of quality hand made chocolate shops there are in Australia and they're actually not that expensive too. My favourite chocolate mice (don't ask me why I can eat a mouse and not a bilby, I just don't know) are probably about $1.50 or something like that. Actually, that is probably quite expensive for a bit of chocolate, but it is really good quality chocolate and really tasty. Hang on, why am I justifying buying chocolate?

Things I'm going to miss so far when I get home :
Bundaberg ginger beer
Dark chocolate mice
Tim Tams (though I'm sure I can get these at home, especially as there's an Ozzie shop in Covent Garden - must check that out more closely when I get home)
The sun

The visitor centre is just by the market too, so I picked up lots of nice brochures of things to do. I found one for the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park that I'd read about on the internet, so I hope to be able to go to that. Having picked up loads of brochures as well, it seems like there's too much to do and I'm here for 5 nights! There are a couple of eco-cruises to two different islands that look nice, there's an 'air' walk through some tall trees that looks fab, and there's also Wineglass Bay which has fabulous sandy beaches! So, I'll be going back to the visitor centre tomorrow and ask them a bunch of questions and book some stuff for the remaining three days I'm in Hobart.

After that, we took a drive up to Mount Wellington which was really lovely. Absolutely amazing views from the top and all the way around! We saw lots of cyclists on the way up and on the way down - I didn't envy them at all as it's a pretty twisty turny and a very uphill climb! There was one guy who had leg muscles on his leg muscles and definitely looked like a professional cyclist. Then there was this young guy who really made it look like hard work. Poor thing - the sweat was almost making a little river behind him....

So plan for tomorrow is to have a nice lie in, and then hit the visitor centre for some hopeful inspiration. I've had a look at the brochures and I think that I want to go to Tasman Island as you can go for a 3 hour cruise around the island, and also visit Port Arthur which was a prison for British convicts in the 1830s. It's meant to be really interesting and one of the top tourist attractions in Tassie, so I should probably go there. The 'air' walk looks really good too, and Nancy and Lyell have been there and say that it's worth it.
I guess I should probably get up early-ish and make the most of the day, but I just really fancy a lie in.