Blogs from Perth City, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 8

Après un départ retardé à cause de la neige, nous quittons finalement Toulouse mardi 7 février en fin de journée. Le vol Londres - Singapour un peu long (12h) mais on tient bon, au-dessus du Pakistan et de l'Inde ça secoue grave!! Escale très sympa à Singapour grâce à notre surclassement en Business Class: accès au Lounge VIP Qantas, douche, boissons et collations à volonté!! Puis dans l'avion, ça continue, on est à nos petits soins, avec champagne, bons vins australiens, repas de qualité et sièges inclinables à 180° pour un super dodo!! Ce vol est trop court!! Après les formalités douanières (à 1h30 du mat'!!) on prend un taxi pour arriver chez Greg Burns!! On précise c'est son vrai nom. C'est comique d'arriver au milieu de la nuit chez des inconnus, on trouve facilement le ... read more

Dublin Airport- Sad to say goodbye to everyone. It really was, we were in shock on the other side of the screen. We still managed a Chicken Royale though....we ate it through tears. Looked back at the photos and i really dont think my ma and da will miss us. Germany- Weather was minus 13 when we arrived. It actually hurt to breathe in, stinging cold. But we had to go out and get rae her fag...and bottle of diet coke. Only had to wait 2 hours instead of the 14 we thought so that was handy. the flight was 2 hours to here so it was grand. Hostess asked us if we'd move to the exit seats with extra leg room. We were like class ou've it.....THE CHAIRS DIDNT GO BACK AT ALL!!!! Malaysia- Beautiful ... read more

...I'm flying today! The Welsh wonder that is Julia Gillard (I'm sure she loves being reminded she's Welsh, not Australian) told me yesterday afternoon that the Qantas debacle was over for now and that my flight would be taking off as planned. OK, so she didn't quite announce to the world that my particular flight would be bound for Perth but she might as well have. Made up - Perth was always my destination of choice on this little adventure. I just decided to add a few stops, or make that countries, on the way there and back... I'm up and about at 3am as my taxi is coming to get me at 5.30am (the taxi in question doesn't know it at the time but more on that subject later). Having cleaned the apartment yesterday, I ... read more

Hey everyone, long time no write. I haven’t had a lot to write about of late, mostly just working and hanging out with people at the hostel. Room 25 (the 16 bed male dorm I’ve been living in for the past few months ) is kind of like a second home. All the guys here are really good friends, Maik (Mikey) and Karl, my German buddies from Berlin, Joost (pronounced Yoh-st) from the Netherlands, Julies the token Kiwi, Dino the Scottish chef, Loic our tiny Frenchman (addicted to Uno like some people are to drugs), Nick and Matt from England, Josh the only other Canadian from in the hostel and from Vancouver (though I am the cooler of the 2 Canadians here without question ), Roman, the quiet regular sized French guy, and Darren, an English ... read more

We’re still alive and we’re back baaaaby!! Well where to start with summing up the last 4 months?? Perth has been brilliant, even although it’s the most isolated city in the world it’s felt like hame to us! We’ve achieved what we wanted to in Perth which was work and save as much dosh as we could. The jobs we both landed ourselves had a great bunch of folk who were pretty much in the same boat as us so it was easy to make some pals. Don’t be fooled too much with the saving chat though cause we managed to get ourselves right back into the swing of Friday night drinks after work which was pretty much every week! It’s safe to say we’re now pretty well acquainted with the top drinking spots of Perth! ... read more