October 05, 2004
TWC
I’ve been begging Rob for about a month now, asking if we could please go to Ross to visit the Tasmanian Wool Centre. It’s been put off several times, rescheduled for later, and finally the time came this morning. We made the drive out to Ross, about an hour away from Launceston. We checked our restaurant guide and picked a place for lunch in a bigger town near Ross.
After reading about Ross and seeing the tourism information, it seemed like an interesting place. As a knitter, the TWC sounded pretty cool – information on the whole wool process, from the sheep to the shirt, interactive displays, stuff to buy, meaning yarn. I figured this might be a place to find a deal. As it turns out, the TWC is the most expensive place to buy yarn I’ve been to in all of Tasmania, including the Salamanca market. The interactive displays turn out to be different widths of dirty wool you can touch and that was the coolest thing about it. I don’t think I learned much at all, if anything. Ross also turns out to be a letdown – lots of historical buildings and a bridge built by convicts, but nothing particularly stunning. Every small town in Tassie has old buildings.
Lunch was great though. We stopped at Zep’s in Campbelltown. Surprisingly good and creative for such a small town.
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