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Published: October 21st 2009
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Fremantle
My choice is my destiny My destiny is my choice It was a long flight indeed. Another new world showed up in front of my eyes. Every single detail on every single corner was new to me. Air, wind, the light, sun... time. Yeah, time. This one gave me huge head brick punch. What time is it? Can I go sleep now? Time zone is hollow beast out here and it hosted more travellers than tsunami in human history. So what is the first step I should do now? Ok. Just like in the plan. Hostel. Find a hostel. I mean... go to the one you found (I thought) on the internet couple of days before. I had three options. Fremantle and Perth city plus the beach. Each hostel prices varies between 20 and 28 bucks. When I was doing the Hostel research I found that Hostels are very busy in October. Back in Europe I was looking for a good spot to stay a month before my arrival. And than it was difficult to book a good place - or any place. But fortunately just 2 days before I crossed the border I got three emails back as a respond on my hostel availability query. Good price, fine spot so
let.s go! So I had luck and I found place to settle. First night - I should call it nightmare, because mental nightmare is a standard when you changing your time zone. I can.t say that I had such a brain crack. Off course I woke up at 3am once or maybe but than my biological clock adjusted pretty easy. I feel good and the time change made me very healthy chap 😊 Like never before I.m waking up 5, 5:30am - no pain! That is what I was waiting for. healthy life. No stress. No pressure. No pain. Yup, I back in bed 9pm but than it.s almost dark already so I don.t really care. Most importantly, that at 5am sun is rising and this is making me absolutely happy. Every single sun ray is healing me from the inside out. Yeah, you reading a blog written by the guy who.se life has been build like a fort around the computer screen, in the office with the artificial office lights, drinking chlorine tea, looking at full of rain streets hoping for sun every day, hidden behind the heavy clouds. Having this material world as a existence must, with unpaid
Independence
If you can imagine, you are free to fly away. overtime, sometimes working Saturdays and Sundays with no excuse, being late crawling silently next to the wall on the office stairs hoping that your boss is not going to say: Good afternoon! to you five minutes after 9am. Frozen PC monitor, tube delays, overcrowded sidewalks full of tourists and running hungry for money people, pay as you go gas and pay as you go electricity, single glazed windows when it.s minus 15 outside and minus 20 inside your flat. Perfect flavour coffee, perfect heavy body when you drink it. Eating to the clock, shitting to the clock, walking to the clock, working to the clock, paying to the clock and relaxing to the clock. This is what you.re earning when you.re becoming a well qualified with diploma young guy who want.s to be proud of what he did in his life someday. Yes. And now, after a day and night or lets say - night and day I have started to conquer my new continent. People in Australia are totally chilled. This is the coolest nation I have ever met. Off course I met some freaky singles but in general here is always "no problem mate". Smiled, kind and relaxed
fitted
I was born to fit in such enviroment people is a half of this country success. The other part is the weather. Sun! I have visited Perth city and Fremantle almost in one go as both cities are well connected. And the weather was perfect every time no matter what. City Communication? Trains and busses - you just can not complain. Well, as I did not hired any car so I was travelling on the bus mostly along with the oldest Australian citizens. Trains are slightly better choice. Fine design, clean and faster than bus. Running very precisely with their time schedule. But I had to say that the ticket selling machines are not very well designed. I was doing an interchange from the bus to a train and I saw on the train schedule display above my head that my train is leaving in 3 minutes! So I runned down stairs to the ticket machine, I.ve picked the destination and when it came to pay I couldn.t slide my credit card into the machine! I was pushing so hard that I almost broke that plastic! I thought... ok. I need cash. I came back using same stairs I runned down second ago to the ATM. I saw
Equipment
Balancing on the pole catching me in the Ocean another train approaching the platform so I runned down quickly again - same speed, same grrrr face and same ticket machine. After typing my destination I wanted to put 50$ note into this machine and 4 times in the row it was returning this note back to me! The guy behind me told me - Hey dude, relax. These machines are accepting only 5 and 10% bills. Ok. I.m relaxed. Thanks for that. I came back to the ATM I took money from just a minute ago and there are some shops and hot-dog bars. I asked the guy behind the counter - hey dude can you give me smaller notes please as this one can.t go through the ticket machine? No. 50 dollars is too much I don.t have that much money - some Vietnamese hot dog master replied. Ok. After 10 minutes I runned down again (you know why runned) back to the ticket machine with some change. And guess what happened. This guy gave me some Singapore coins so I couldn.t use it! So be prepared and always have some change with you if you want to use a train ticket machine. If you want to be
Zen
I don.t know how, so please don.t ask :) like OZ you might need to get a car. Doesn.t matter what car. Just a car. Distances from point A to point B are bigger than on google maps. Trust me. I am the expert here 😊 I took my maps from the internet before my arrive (I was prepared) and regarding to the figures from the "maps" I thought that I can bit a several streets and parks on foot easily. Not exactly. Sometimes I had to walk on the grass or balancing on the kerb along the street to get to the other side of my map because of lack of the side walks and instead of 1k there was 6k.s to walk instead. I know that the map was my fault. Probably the map scale has changed during my flight and after. It stretched it because of the heat and moisture condensed in my pocket after the security check on the airport 😉 Some dry soups I had to declare on the airport made my hands wet. So get the car and stay happy, that.s my advice. Fuel is cheap. Walking stuff was my idea and it.s pretty cool way to see the citys architecture (especially along
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City on the wire calling at night another perfect day the cost) but my advice is to save your leggies for the beach walking. Yup, the beach. Beautiful. I just saw 1:100000 of all OZ see fronts but this one made me impressed already! One thing wasn.t cool. The wind is so strong that I could not lay down flat on the sand and get my tan properly as the wind was putting the sand all over me and inside of me ears, nose, eyes, my sandwiches consequently. Apart of that - 10 points of 10! Anyway, the sun, the beach, the city architecture and people. All together this city creates the perfect combination of good mood and perfect start for further OZ exploration. Depends on what will happened here, being in this city might change my life for ever. The "RTW43" adventure begins here.
Perth, Australia 21.Oct.2009
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What's next?
Artur, what's next? Are you lost in the bush? Eaten by dingos? Please give us a hint where are you?!