Stepping back in time
20th January 2010 Hobart is a small city and quite easy to walk around, so this was what we decided to do this morning. Hobart is Australia’s second-oldest city after Sydney, but has managed to escape the worst excesses of development and so it’s many early buildings are remarkably well-preserved. In fact most of the buildings in the centre feature colonial Georgian architecture which gives it a quaint, slightly old-fashioned air. The more ‘modern’ developments seem to date from the sixties and seventies, with lots of concrete and only serve to increase this feeling. ...