Blogs from Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 13

Wow! Its 38° in Perth We take a taxi, driven by a very still and quite man, and arrive at the hotel all OK, we did drive past the WACA, After a snooze we go out to explore the local area we walk along the river watching the sun set, we end up at a pub called the lucky shag! Great food a real buzz but thankfully no shags involved ;-) Day 2, up early to catch a boat for a wine tasting cruise, very relaxing with lots of wine, it wasn't really tasting more like drinking:-) with a trip around the winery and then lunch with 8 more wines to drink, followed by fortified wines (port) which we declined, caught the boat back, a very relaxing day. Was woken up during the night with a ... read more

Oh yes forgot to say when we came out of the winery after lunch we saw a bush fire starting quite some distance away, roughly about 18 - 20 miles away. Out here they have a large amount of fire volunteers Who don't get paid. When we have seen houses in amongst the trees, you wonder why people want to live like that. Stick me in a city with plenty of concrete !!.... read more

Good morning, yesterday myself, Stu, Mike, Dorothy and Chris went to a place called Fremantle which I suppose was about a 50 minute drive away. We were armed with plenty of sunscreen on, I put 50 on and Dorothy gave us some salts to drink. It got to 36 degrees yesterday during the day and it did have a slight breeze, not like the previous day. We really liked Fremantle, it was buzzy, loads of outside cafes and restaurants and bars and street entertainers. They had a nice market which sold food as well as leather goods and jewellery and other bits and pieces. I could have had a field day there, but we're on a budget !! We had lunch there before moving onto what they called the round house which was a small prison ... read more

Already it seems like we've been gone ages. We arrived in Singapore on Wednesday and stayed right in the middle of the city, so our first evening we just stepped out and walked around and found somewhere to eat. On Thursday we had a full-on sightseeing day starting with the hop-on hop-off bus, visiting Raffles Hotel, the botanical gardens (wonderful orchid section), a cable car trip over to Sentosa Island where there are loads of 'attractions'. We did have a go on some segways! The weather was comfortably hot and not too humid but cloudy. Singapore is busy and vibrant with loads of things to see and do so I think we did OK in just one day. After an early start this morning we arrived in Perth at about 4.00pm local time (we're 8 hours ... read more

We have just walked around the WACA (for those uninitiated amongst you ) this is the Western Australia Cricket Association ground in Perth, ? just a stones throw from our hotel. I was convinced that I could smell the leather of the koocabura but keith thought it was more like curry. Then as we walked back to our hotel I saw Steven Finn ?in a restaurant.... read more