We're having a long weekend down in Hobart visiting my cousin Astrid. While it's not dramatically colder here than in Sydney, we are at a spot where the next stop south is Antarctica and the gift shop at the port is named after Douglas Mawson, the polar explorer. Tasmania had glaciers in the last ice age and you can see it in the landscape.
Astrid's house looks right across the valley that Hobart was built around to Mount Wellington, a bare crag that wouldn't look out of place in the highlands of Scotland. It gets dustings of snow all through the winter, and Astrid can generally tell what to wear by seeing how far the snow extends down the slopes.
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