Blogs from Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Wow as we have been in Australia for just over seven years, as we have previously stated we have our first visitors coming to spend Christmas with us, which will be the Bentons, john and Hilary and their friends Dawn and Jim Keeley, we have just spoken to them about an hour ago and they are at Birmingham airport and will be flying at 1.30pm UK time to Dubai with an over night there before they fly on to Sydney, where they will spend a few days, then on to Alice Springs where they will fly on to Uluru (Ayres Rock) then on to us here in Perth for the 27th December until the 5th of January We also have the Fenton's our friends from Laggan in New South Wales who are flying from Canberra to ... read more

Hi All, I appreciate this doesn’t have anything to do with travel, but still it is to do with Kangaroojack our adventures and our love of curry. We eluded that we have found an awesome Indian restaurant in Fremantle called the Copper Chimney and we went for dinner there last night, well I felt we had earned it after a hectic week for both us and also the fact that my ever spiteful wife had made me, yes I said made me go out and run Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday night. We booked a table for 7.30 as its Friday night, we are exhausted and would be early to bed, so the order of the day was simple , get up, go to work come home, go for a run, dinner then bed. The restaurant ... read more

Well how about this then? 2,555 days ago or seven years ago today we left home, on a rainy Friday at Heathrow airport, en route to an exciting new adventure in Australia. It’s hard for us to equate or even remember what we have done it has been so huge and then I usually write something like “has it been worth it?” so I won’t! Not this time anyway. I guess when we look back to the series of events that lead us here we have to thank our dear friends Gary and Karen Barber who initially asked us if we wanted to accompany them to Australia for a five week holiday in 2006/7 and that’s when the die was cast for our love for this enormous country. When we lived in the old country we ... read more

(Hi All, Firstly our apologies as tis blog will be technically out of sync, due to the fact this is an important date, and there will be still a couple of blogs to be completed, the final one of last wedding over East, one ofwhen we recently Saw Peter and Leigh Walker and our visit to Perth Zoo. This blog number 830,is quite a milestone for Kangaroojack and what he/ we have achieved, so this is what it is all about. How about this then we have been a member of the travel blog community for 7 years today about this time we were heading towards fever pitch in the UK with only about 2 months before we departed for our massive adventure in Australia Here is the very first blog that was typed by Kangaroojack ... read more

The Silver Whisper slipped into Fremantle Harbor on a warm Saturday afternoon. Freo, as it is called locally, is a busy place on summer weekends with all the boaters out enjoying the blue waters of the Indian Ocean. Also, the markets are open on the weekends and it is a favored getaway for the Perth residents. Our cruising friend Ann picked us up and took us on a drive along the Swan River which stretches from the ocean up to the city of Perth. The western outpost is one of our favorite cities in Australia. It is also the fastest growing metropolis and probably the wealthiest. The export of minerals and wheat generates most of the income. The city is separated from the rest of Australia by thousands of miles of bush land. Western Australians tend ... read more