Richmond is just north-east of Hobart, in the Coal River Valley. In the early days of British settlement, as settlers moved out looking for places to farm, this is where many of them went.
With the bridge over the Coal River, Richmond was on the road to both the east coast and the Tasman Peninsula & Port Arthur. These days the highway to both goes more to the south, bypassing Richmond. With its large collection of Georgian and sandstone buildings, Richmond is very much a tourist town now, lots of traffic, lots of people, lots of galleries and cafe, and things to look at. You could spend a day here, easily.
We only had an hour and fifteen minutes though, which was supposed to include lunch (I ate mine on the bus), so I didn’t have time to do much more than take a lot of quick photos 🙁
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