Blogs from Perth City, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 5

We arrived in Perth early september. I started working straight away in a cafe with my friend Nadia and also looking after a 10yr old girl Maggie after school. Jordan soon had a job in the city back in recruitment. Our first couple of weeks consisted of exploring. We visited Scarborough Beach, Fremantle, the city. We had our first Aussie BBQ at Nadias house the weekend Neil and Ian arrived. It was very gormet BBQ, Baby octupus and Baramundi rather than you average sausages and burgers, all cooked by Nad's Boyfriend Owain who is quite the chef. We started looking for a place to rent with the boys and after a couple of weeks crashing at Nadias we signed up for a lease on a 3 bed flat on Adelaide Terrace right in the centre of ... read more

Hello folks, Below are photo highlights from my trip to the Southern part of Western Australia with Mum and Dad over the Christmas-New Year period (2012-2013). (Click on individual photo/s to see an enlarged view, then scroll thru). I highly recommend this entire region of Australia, but especially Cape Le Grand and the Esperance area. Craig... read more

So I left Thailand feeling pretty sad, but excited to see Australia and travelled over to Singapore before my connecting flight to Perth there was an 11 hour wait. I landed in the morning and so I decided to head out into Singapore and spend some of the time I had looking around and seeing what I could of Singapore. I spoke to a travel guide and bought a ticket for the Singapore Flyer; this was like England's version of the London Eye (which I still have not been on yet). It cost me $30 SD and I had to get the tube to the flyer. It turned out to be very simple and the tube was so cheap! $4.50 return. I had to make 3 changes but I had a map (obvious tourist) and all ... read more

We zijn hier nu bijna 2 weken in Perth en we amuseren ons nog steeds bij Tom & Marcia. Verleden week is Tom ziek geweest, een grote verkoudheid. Maar dankzij mijn echinacea druppels is hij overeind gebleven en kwam het geen griep. Ook Marcia heeft verleden week het niet te gemakkelijk gehad. Verleden week kwam de loodgieter en hij vertelde dat het toilet (dat er al 26 jaar staat) moest vervangen worden. De dag nadien was het toilet vervangen maar we mochten er 24 uur niet op. Voor pipi werd het aan de 'lemontree' (de citroenen worden toch geel en het is goed voor de boom aldus Tom) en de rest is in het shoppingcenter aan de overkant van de straat. Dus Marcia ging naar de citroenboom in het midden van de nacht en wou het ... read more

We returned to Perth from Fremantle today and spent the majority of the day catching up and sorting things out before we start travelling again… posting things back to the UK, washing, shopping, re-packing etc. But by late afternoon we were pretty much organised so we packed a picnic and headed up to Kings Park to watch the sun setting and the city lights starting to twinkle. As usual we bought far more food than we needed and ended up offering it to the other picnic’ers around us. On the stroll back to the hostel Jo got to test out her nose twitching abilities on the millionaires homes that line the hill leading up to Kings Park which are all very grand. It was then time for a couple of Skype and phone calls before we ... read more