I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I had seen a clip from the documentary series Convict Women in which I had a small part, when it was filmed here in 2010. The film clip plus the stills are very good and I look forward to seeing it when it is aired presumably on SBS? I [...]
The last week or two has been glorious, springlike weather. Our warmest day was 22 degrees last week! It makes our job at Louisa’s Walk very much more pleasant which goes without saying. We have had a few exciting things happen just lately so this blog post will be a mixed bag of information. A [...]
As any tourism operator will tell you, running a tourism business isn’t easy. Potentially we are available 365 days a year (although we do take Christmas Day off!) In reality of course we take other days off, if we burn out we have nothing left. To that end we make sure we take at least [...]
Ask any tourism operator and they will tell you that times are hard. The strong Australian dollar and more austere times in general, have meant a tightening of the market there is no doubt. Because Louisa’s Walk is such a small operation, it hasn’t really impacted on us that much but, even so, we have [...]
It is the annual Festival of Voices down here in Hobart; a wonderful event that fills our snowy city with song in all sorts of unexpected places. I say “snowy” - for the most part of this week, Mount Wellington has been snow capped and closed for cars and there has been snow down to [...]
It’s July 6th today, past the shortest day of the year. How does the saying go “As the days lengthen the cold strengthens”? We had to cancel Louisa’s Walk yesterday (quite rare for us). The forecast temperature was only 9 degrees. I can do cold, I can do light rain but add in a howling [...]
Competition is a strange thing isn’t it? We’re really proud of being the top listed Hobart attraction on the TripAdvisor web site (and if you don’t know about TripAdvisor then you should – it’s a great travel web site that gives traveller’s honest reviews about places they’ve stayed and things to do). For the last [...]
I had intended writing a blog post about the beautiful Autumn colours that South Hobart and, most particularly, the Cascade Gardens, are displaying at the moment. This is still true, however, the Autumn hues were rather eclipsed last week by some very early winter weather. We had snow down to the 500 metre level! Louisa [...]
This term has been a busy one for us at Louisa’s Walk – our Primary School performance has become really popular with schools. We recently took a school whose pupils were described as having “learning difficulties”. They were of secondary school age but we gave them the Primary School performance as, in consultation with their [...]
My brother, John, has recently been over from the UK for a few weeks. He had never visited Australia before and it was the trip of a lifetime for him – he also happens to be profoundly deaf. Naturally, I wanted to show him what I do for a living and whilst he had visited [...]
