Hi Sam, that's good if the shop you buy the furniture in handles all the paperwork required for sending the stuff over to Tasmania. I've seen some beautiful pieces of furniture in houses advertised for sale on the Island, so i've been assuming people have either bought the pieces in shops in Tas or have got them in Asia somewhere.... definitely my kind of furniture.
We didn't have any viewers this weekend unfortunately. We were hoping to have some and got the place all spick & span just incase, but no phonecalls from the agent.

I hope it isn't too hot for you at the moment....Is it a very dry heat?

Hi Corinne, thanks for that.... Yes, cant believe we missed out again on another rate drop - I did a fixed rate deal about a year or so ago on our mortgage so we've missed out on saving quite a bit off our monthly mortgage payments recently Just our luck But hopefully it will encourage other people to get new mortgages... Things have quietened down again i think. A lady across the road to us is trying to sell a maisonette - has been up for sale for ages now....and as far as we know - apart from one couple viewing the other week she's had no viewers either... Another family waiting to move to Perth have had their house up for sale since last July and have only had 3 viewers and theirs is in a nice countryside setting - 4bed semi - bargain price now - and still no buyers... Fed up with all the doom and gloom of it all really.
A friend of mine went to Basildon shopping centre Saturday - i havent been there for a few years but she goes often and she said it was like a ghost town and i've heard Lakeside Shopping centre is unusually quiet of an evening... I reckon the credit crunch is definitely start to affect normal families now... people either haven't got any money to spend or if they have they're hanging onto it just incase....
Renting out the house is our 2010 option....hopefully wont get to that!

Glad to see you're planning on being back in Tas by the end of this year as well... Will be nice if we do get a summer this year here - and you'd be lucky then to arrive and get another one!

hi Cathy,
dont worry, things will turn around, the market has to stabalise again, thousands looking for new properties and your in essex so handy for London. One of my sons lives in Bow, not too far from you, Victoria Park on the canal, so people will be wanting your property particularly with kiddies and wanting to leave London. If they do away with Stamp duty which they have got to do the market will move again, hang on in there girl. I feel sad for the ex pats over in Euro world, living on pensions, now that must be hard bless them.
Dry heat Cathy, and when the plane door opens pow, i hits you, the flight attendants seem happy to let us all off and fly away hehehehe. speak soon x

hi all
does anybody here go camping in tasmania, also do many people use the ferry service from melbourne for holidays in tasmania, we move to melbourne this year and do as much camping as possible.
john

Hi John
the Spirit of Tasmania is a great boat, and camping is beautiful in Tas. We prefer camping bush (and somewhere I have a great book about camping free in Oz) but there are loads of places where you can camp...http://www.forestrytas.com.au/visiting/camping... theres an abundance of camp sites, Coles Bay etc, depends where and what you are looking for. In the Tamar Valley where we have a house, there is Beauty Point and Greens Beach. (We are North)... Freycenet Wine Glass Bay is stunning and we have spent a week or so there, I am sure other people have something to contribute to this as well. Strahan is also beautiful for camping and there is also a wonderful railway which ambles through the man ferns (my husband used to go to school on this railway) wonderful boat trips you can make over there as well. Cradle Mountain is also gorgeous... the boat comes into Devonport so usually our friends go to the furthest point and work their way back to Devonport for the journey back.http://www.spiritoftasmania.com.au/fares/. You cant take fruit/honey flowers etc over to Tassie, just go into the website.

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26 February 2009

Sail by day and enjoy scenic views from just $99* per person each way or sail at sunset from just $99* per person each way. The Great Day/Night Sale is valid for travel until 19 April 2009. Day sailings depart Melbourne and Devonport from 9am and 8pm at night sailings.

Real Tasmania forum has a good section on campsites too.

http://www.realtasmania.com/forums.html

Hi

Thanks for the lovely barbie Donna, the food was lovely

The kids enjoyed themselves too, they keep asking for some chickens now!!

Managed to get lots more done in our garden yesterday, it was a gorgeous day. Will have to have a garden warming party before the weather gets too cold, will let you know.

Sam

you'll have to come down again so Isobel can finally meet Lauren!

Did she have a good weekend at the camp, the traffic on the roads was pretty busy on Monday!!

She'll be shattered by the weekend after 2 camps in one week.

Sam

she loved it. yes the traffic coming out of the oval was full on. We went home through Woodbridge Hill, much easier. Thankfully she has a student free day today so is at home veging in front of TV

thats great info, thanks a lot, were looking forward to seeing tasmania and camping there.
john

There you go John, they might have an updated version, but we like this book very much. maybe your library can even obtain a copy for you.Enjoy!


Free Camping in Tasmania, 3rd Edition, S&S Collis, 2005, ISBN 0 9757805 0 6

even better, thanks for your help, always great to speak to people who actually go to these places.
john

Hi Cathy and any others planning on moving to Tas, just come across this website

http://www.tchange.com.au/index.html

seems to have got some varied info on there that may be of help

just booked our citizenship test got in on 7th April

to the other Taswegians, how's the weather been down south of the island? jeez we've had some rain here over last few days hope you've had some where you need it

Yup friday afternoon and all night we had a major thunderstorm and it rained like i've never seen rain before, it was like a monsoon! And most of the day Sat it rained really heavily, things really started to green up here now. Sunday was beautiful, really sunny and clear, but today it's been raining on and off, with sunshine in between.

Wow good luck for your Citizenship! Our 2 years comes up in October, we'll be going for ours then.

I have some more news on the twins front, I had my 20 week scan on friday and the doc is 90% sure that I'm having identical girls. We are over the moon. at the moment one is head up and one is head down, so if the one head up doesn't swing round, it looks like I'll have to have a c- section.