No, we didn't return to Tasmania's big city, but we did have some enjoyable and interesting experiences when we were there … back before the techno-issues.
Hobart suggests Port Townsend (Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula) if it was 10 times the size … a vibrant art and music community, old Victorian buildings, a handsome harbor and waterfront. An art organizations offers free bike loans to go around to museums and galleries, which we did one afternoon and saw some very interesting contemporary art. We also spend much of one day at the wacky Museum of Old and New Art, the creation of an eccentric, wealthy gambler. He build a very odd, bunker-like structure a bit outside of Hobart (we took a 30-minute, fast, camouflage-painted catamaran there) filled it with works from ancient Egypt to those he just commissioned. Some of the work was beautiful, some intriguing (in one, you held to metal bars until a light bulb started to blink in the rhythm of you heart, then a string of bulbs followed with the same rhythm, and led to a room of bulbs all blinking in the patterns of various individuals' hearts) and some just gross. But one interesting piece (and brother-in-law Rich will find it quite familiar) was this "waterfall" (hope the video works):
Hobart suggests Port Townsend (Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula) if it was 10 times the size … a vibrant art and music community, old Victorian buildings, a handsome harbor and waterfront. An art organizations offers free bike loans to go around to museums and galleries, which we did one afternoon and saw some very interesting contemporary art. We also spend much of one day at the wacky Museum of Old and New Art, the creation of an eccentric, wealthy gambler. He build a very odd, bunker-like structure a bit outside of Hobart (we took a 30-minute, fast, camouflage-painted catamaran there) filled it with works from ancient Egypt to those he just commissioned. Some of the work was beautiful, some intriguing (in one, you held to metal bars until a light bulb started to blink in the rhythm of you heart, then a string of bulbs followed with the same rhythm, and led to a room of bulbs all blinking in the patterns of various individuals' hearts) and some just gross. But one interesting piece (and brother-in-law Rich will find it quite familiar) was this "waterfall" (hope the video works):
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