Franklin News and Views

Roaring Grill The Roaring Grill is a very welcome addition for dining in North Hobart. We both decided on eye fillet steak (200 gram) cooked medium. It came with champ potatoes and chopped salad and we also ordered a vegetable side dish, although in hindsight we could have done without. Bear in mind we are not big eaters. The steak was very tender and tasty and beautifully cooked Shared a coffee infused crème brulee with almond biscotti which was most enjoyable. The meal however was a bit saltier than what we like. Service was good and the wait for the food was about what one would expect. The steaks were crusty on the outside and next day, after both not sleeping well, I did a search on the Internet and discovered that salt is used by many chefs when cooking steak. As we do not normally have much salt, this may have contributed to the sleep problem, if it was actually used in the cooking. 5/5

Future Bushwalks: Freycinet Peninsula : 25 - 27/28 September We find that it is usually late in the day by the time we get to the desired camp some 1k south along the ridge leading...

Books: A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black :   My Review A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black My rating: 1 of 5 stars Reviews I had read prompted me to buy the book, but so far it h...

Bushwalks: Quoin Mountain : Wednesday 11 September 2013 The track through the Long Tom property (private) was followed to a junction with a logging road which was fo...

My Garmin GPS was working fine when suddenly it said can’t unlock maps and wanted me to set up maps and then recalibrate the compass. This was very annoying, but anyway I had no choice but to do as instructed. But it was only the basic world map without all the detail that I previously had. However it continued to give the message can’t unlock every time I turned on the GPS. I searched Garmin website and also emailed Garmin for help. I did find a reference to the message relating to the Garmin Nuvi navigator and also on another web site specifically relating to GPS’s. On this site 3 people had the very same problem of suddenly the maps not being there. Incredibly a crucial file gets deleted from the GPS; how it happens is a mystery but it is very poor of Garmin not to have the software robust enough so that this can’t happen. I tried the solution suggested, but it did not make any difference. Then a few days later I realised that I had made a spelling error in the file name and whe