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SHOPPING Hobart Tasmania
Southern Charm By GARy MACnAMARA
Shopping in hobart is always a pleasant surprise. With its intriguing arcades and small lanes hidden with specialty stores, boutiques and colourful eateries, you’ll find a thousand delights in hobart’s City Centre.
While Hobart may not offer all of the major mainstream shopping of its mainland counterparts, it is a great place to poke around in little boutiques and eclectic shops and see great products from local artists. Don’t expect buzzing fashion central but you will find a certain ambience and charm that you won’t find in any other major CBD’s in Australia. More importantly the service from the locals is always excellent and their friendliness contagious.
Handmark Galleries in Salamanca Place has been showing unique Tasmanian art, craft and design since 1980. If you are looking for something original, beautiful or special, this place is a must. There are monthly exhibitions with fine jewellery, pottery ceramics, wood and furniture on display from over 90 Tasmanian artists.
Wursthaus kitchen located in the heart
of the Salamanca district is a food lover’s paradise in the centre of town. Wursthaus literally meaning “house of sausage” was established in 1985 and voted by “Gourmet Traveller” as one of the top five food stores in Australia.
More than just a deli and butchery, Wursthaus kitchen is a highly respected Tasmanian Company manufacturing and distributing a vast range of high quality meat products to many of Tasmania’s finest restaurants, hotels, caterers and delicatessens.
Wursthaus products can be found in all Tasmanian regional areas and the kitchen also sells fine Tasmanian wines, runs monthly cooking classes and has daily food and wine tastings.
One of Australia’s best known outdoor markets, The Salamanca Market takes
place every Saturday from 8.30am - 3pm at Hobart’s Salamanca Place. Set against the magnificent sandstone facade of historic warehouses, the market attracts thousands of locals and visitors, every Saturday of the year.
Here you’ll find over 300 stalls selling everything from fresh fruit, crisp organic vegetables, hot baked spuds and beautiful coffee and croissants. The markets also serve to highlight Tasmania’s fine arts and crafts including hand designed glass, bold ceramics, stylish clothing and fine local timbers.
The Farm Gate Market offers an amazing range of produce and is a great way to spend a Sunday morning in Hobart. Not as touristy and perhaps more intimate than Salamanca,
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