Planning a tour of the Apple Isle: Tasmania 2022
With international borders closed (for Australians, anyway) until god-only-knows-when, and a nice local trip looking very attractive as an introduction to touring for my partner Danielle, we’ve been planning a Tasmanian East Coast cycling trip for a few months now.
We’re hoping to take the trip next year. Danielle is a native Tasmanian, so we’ll finish the tour by staying with/near her parents in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Hobart. The Spirit of Tasmania ferry berths in Devonport, so with our start and finish points decided, it was simply a matter of working out the route. I found a good PDF guide on the Discover Tasmania website, but the link has since disappeared into 404 heaven. Using the outline detailed in this guide, along with a Hema map of Tassie, we’ve outlined a nice 15-leg route that will take us 13–14 days in total riding, across perhaps three weeks (given rests and sightseeing).
Continue reading after the quoteWould you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
I don’t much care where —
Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
Update: We’re going! We’re finally doing it!
We have booked the ferry, and some of the accommodation, and we’re gearing up to do our tour this December!
I wavered between just updating this post or creating a new one, and decided upon the latter.
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