Today we are off to the Salamanca Market. We decided to get there early thinking as it is mothers day tomorrow it might become busy. We were at the bus stop at 8 am together with another lady from the show grounds. Her husband wasn't feeling well so she asked if she could tag along with us to the market. We caught a different bus today from yesterday and when it pulled up in town we just sat there commenting on the fact that everyone else had got off. The bus driver turns to us and says this the end of the line you will have to get off. The three of us get off apologising as we go. Yesterday the bus had turned around the corner and pulled up at the post office which is what we were expecting again today. Oh well never mind. We walked down to the market and Kathy went her way and we went ours. The market has been operating every Saturday since 1973. It was not as large as I had expected but there was still many stalls there with all the normal market things, food, clothes, toys, soap, flowers, books and so on. After we had had our fill of the market we went for a stroll along the waterfront and then to The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. It is the second oldest museum in Australia and is housed in Tasmania's oldest surviving public building the 1908-10 Commissariat Store. It was full of the normal museum things.
We started in the cafe and after a cuppa and cake spent 3 hours exploring the museum. A display of photos and memorabilia of migrant woman was also on exhibit until the end of May. Enough educational things - off and had a late lunch in town before catching the bus back to the van.
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