Fish n chips and pub history

This evening, Lisa and I booked on to a historical walk of Hobart's seafront area, taking in a few interesting historical pubs. It told of the bawdry recent past of the town and how much the area had changed in less than 200 years. From a densley forested natural harbour, to reclaiming land to the first settlers, the majority of whom were convicts.

It was of great amusement to Jon however that two of the pubs we visited were the ones we'd actually gone to last night. Ha ha! The tour was very interesting though. However, one couple brought their young kids, which I thought quite odd considering the tour was advertised as taking in the bawdry, tawdry past of Hobart. Mind, when the young boy asked his mum what a brothel was, and she responded "It's where the prostitutes worked", he didn't bat an eyelid.

After the tour we had a look around the beautifully reproduced ship 'Endeavour', which arrived in the harbour today. Sadly it was closed, but it was pretty impressive from the harbour side.

And then, fish and chips! I had blue grenadier fish, a deep sea fish, like hake, in a tasty crispy batter from Mures, a well known Hobart fish restaurant. Mmmmmmm delicious! I hadn't realised that fish and chips was an Australian national dish. They do it rather well!