Sunshine in Perth

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After two very wet days, when we drove around the city and the beaches - usually beautiful with torquoise water and the whitest sand but in the rain just plain dreary - and spent a fair bit of a time at a shopping centre to save from doing each other harm !!, we were very pleased to see the sun today.

We had to leave the motor home at the Fiat dealer to get all sorts of bits and pieces done so had an early start getting there, and from there we were driven to the local station to get the train into the city. We were very impressed with the trains - clean, no graffiti, fast and comfortable.

We did a fair bit of walking around, in and out shops and arcades and went through the art gallery - there was a wonderful exhibition by year 12 students that was just fabulous.

We were getting a bit tired so found that the city busses were free and there were three routes we could take. So, being the big spenders that we are, we did all three - while commuters were hopping on and off, we did the whole route of each, getting a good look at the city and saving our poor legs. Our favourite was one that went down to the Swan River and gave us a good look at the waterfront buildings.

Eventually we decided it was time to get back to the mechanics and caught a train back, phoning them to pick us up at the station as they requested. We had a wait till they finished but at least we were sitting down! We feel we got a good look at Perth - tomorrow we press north once more.

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Photos

Footsteps in Time
These sculptures depicted businessmen through the ages - the latest of course has a mobile phone against his ear!

The bell tower
This was on the waterfront and called 'the bell tower'. Perth calls itself 'the carillion city' so maybe the carillion is in this tower.

and there's a wheel
not quite as big as London's

Outside the Art Gallery
Looks more like The Shout than the Scream - I didn't see what it was called

The London Arcade
I'd forgotten about this old arcade so was very pleased when we stumbled upon it - and had lunch at a little shop inside, in fact.