Blogs from Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Western Australia has a land area of 2,525,500 sq km, almost one third of Australia. The UK has a land area of 243,609 sq km. Which means the UK will fit into Western Australia about 10.4 times. It has one Daily newspaper The West Australian and Today Philip's name is in it! He finished 4085 out of 5465 in a race time of 1:44:29. Back training today, Philip has decided next he is going to run the Gold Coast Half Marathon in Brisbane on the 4th July for the charity Charity So he better get some serious training done today its swimming sauna and steam at craigie. Just to rest the knee. Then we spend the afternoon at our favourite beach , Mullaloo watching the sun go down and conducting an Interview with a Journalist from ... read more

We are on vacation today, When we stuck by the Ash cloud we were on staycation and Philip has christened the rest of the trip as traincation.(as he trains daily) Mong. There is a seriously lack of Photos as stupid has gone and lost the camera memory card. so theres 500 photos gone, he has also broke the Mp3 player which he is seriously sulking about, as without it he only has the voices in his head to keep him company while running. Speaking of which Philip's next project is to the 14km race for a reason in Perth to raise money for Muir Maxwell Trust who have been very good to Bobby, please get involved for us . with any spare pennies you have Big thank you to those who have pledged already loving your ... read more

Sometimes I wonder who should be in charge here, going on a round the world trip with some one who managed to end up in London from Blackpool probably wasn't my best idea! Philip was back at his insane best yesterday. Venturing to the beach he decided to go all Zola Budd and run bare foot along the beach , then he manages to get knock over by a stray wave panicking his Mp3 and sat nav watch are about to be drown he trashes around wildly to keep them dry and then descends in to a blind panic as he feels something attached to his leg imaging jellyfish or worse he starts to scream like a girl only to find its seaweed. The run then continues with his wet shorts starting to cause his inner ... read more

Fun,Fun, fun but we also got ourself grounded! more of that later. Aunty Jayne and Louis took us to the big shops at whitfords , Philip got over excited as they have different flavoured slimming shakes here. He is soo rock and roll. Then we went swimming at the arena well Philip did the chlorine is no good for my fur. the facillites here are so much better than home they had an olympic sized 50m pool which Philip loved. We then spent the rest off the day at the beach reading and watching the sun go down over the Indian ocean, fantastic. By the time we walked home it had gone very dark and we promised Aunty Jane we be home by dark. so we got told off , Philip blamed me and now I'm ... read more

We made it to Perth!!! Myself and ste arrived in sunny Australia on the 2nd of December ’09. We got off the plane and it suddenly struck me, I couldn’t believe we were finally in Australia, so FAR away from home!!! Orla and Todd (Orla is ste’s cousin and Todd is her husband) collected us from the airport, we chatted to them for a while and went to bed cause it was a late flight, so when we did wake up the next morning, it was a great feeling to be in Australia! We went for a walk and got our bearings, well ste did i followed him, his sense of direction is un-natural! My first impressions was everything was so big, the roads, the paths, the houses! Everything is big and spacious! Its like theres ... read more