Robyn Everist – Hobart Walking Tours

May 30, 2017

Hobart History People and Places

Fascinating walking tour of Hobart’s waterfront including historic Hunter St, significant city locations & the famous Salamanca Place.

Beautiful historical buildings and wonderful stories about the hard working convicts, explorers, entrepreneurs, villains and heroes of this convict-built city.

Small Groups
Professional Guide
$38 Adult, $25 Child

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city walk, small group

July 4, 2017

Robyn Everist

Hobart’s Dark Past

Grim and grisly evening tour dripping with dark humour! Invasion, executions, smugglers, criminals, convicts and bush-rangers in the locations where many of Hobart’s grim events happened. Better than a ghost tour as all the tales are from real events.

Small Groups
Evening Tour
$38 Adults

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July 4, 2017

Robyn Everist

Historic Battery Point

Soak up the elegance, beauty and history of this quiet and exclusive area full of grand Georgian homes and the beautifully restored cottages of Arthur Circus. Full of entertaining tales about government corruption, carousing vicars and shipping tycoons.

Small Groups
Battery Point Walk
$38 Adult, $25 Child

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March 13, 2017

Robyn Everist

Hobart Cafe Tour – cold climate coffee at its best

On your visit to Hobart, you will be delighted to discover all the delicious delights that the locals love: our food, our wine and our coffee – but with more than 70 cafes within a ten minute walk of the GPO, how can you choose where to start? Fret no more – I have solved Continue reading →

January 17, 2017

Robyn Everist

To market, to market, to buy a….

It doesn’t take long before you realise there is more to Hobart than Salamanca Markets on Saturdays, but if markets really are the only reason you’ve come to Hobart, then here are some more for you:

Hobart Twilight Market

Hobart’s Friday night twilight market can be found at two locations: Long Beach, Lower Sandy Bay Continue reading →

November 25, 2016

Robyn Everist

Hobart Cafes

I have spent the past several months deep in research into Hobart’s CBD cafes and culture for our brand new Hobart’s Cafe Culture tour and I was amazed to find there are over 70 cafes within a short 10 minute walk of the GPO – I love tour research! Many locals have been Continue reading →

November 5, 2016

Robyn Everist

What Style is that Hobart Building?

Open House Hobart is a great once-a-year opportunity to explore Hobart’s fabulous architecture and see inside some of our iconic buildings. This year we were very excited to offer two free 90 minute tours walking around the CBD, exploring the different styles and history attached to many of our wonderful heritage and modern Continue reading →

hobart architecture, hobart heritage building

February 21, 2016

Robyn Everist

David Collins

20th February, 1804 – Hobart Town First Settlers 1804 – Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania, David Collins When David Collins put his hand up for the job of Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, I bet they never went into detail about what he was in for: bushrangers, escaped convicts, disgruntled settlers, corrupt officers, poor supplies, Continue reading →

September 7, 2015

Robyn Everist

Dodgy as a District Constable

The case of Constable McQueen and the notorious Mrs Saunders. Policing in colonial Hobart was a matter of contention for many years, as it was for every British colony. Hobart, however seems to have been the stand-out example of how not to do it. Under Governor Arthur (1824 – 1837) the colony of Van Diemen’s Continue reading →

Convicts, History

August 11, 2015

Robyn Everist

Grisly and Grim – the Hobart gallows and gibbet

We stop at many interesting locations on our walking tours and one place that consistently alarms and amazes guests is the location of the gallows, which was in use in the British colony from 1806. This site today is marked by the monument to our First Fleeters, at what is now the intersection of Hunter Continue reading →

Convicts, History

Small Groups Professional Guide $38 Adult, $25 Child

Small Groups Evening Tour $38 Adults

Small Groups Battery Point Walk $38 Adult, $25 Child

Hobart Twilight Market

Small Groups
Professional Guide
$38 Adult, $25 Child

Small Groups
Evening Tour
$38 Adults

Small Groups
Battery Point Walk
$38 Adult, $25 Child