Blogs from Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 184

105 hours till departure Well, I'm here at work running through my mind all the things I need to have sorted before we fly out. Stevo flies in on Saturday night (been in NZ snowboarding for the past 2 weeks), and then we leave on Monday night/Tuesday morning 1am 16th of August. So here's a rough idea of our itinerary: *Stop over in Singapore *Land in London at Heathrow on the 16th about 3pm *Fly to Spain on the 29th of August *Spend roughly a week in Spain *Travel by train through Southern France - Arrive in Italy *Spend roughly a week in Italy *Train to Switzerland, spend a few days there *Then to Austria for a couple of days *Then to Germany for roughly a week *Train to France, spending a couple of days there ... read more

Well Dan left for Ireland on Wednesday - my 25th birthday :( Was sad to see him go and I wished I was leaving as well so we could be having fun on the plane together! But someone got a frequent flyers ticket in business class.... oooerrr Dan - just remember - you've had a taste of the good life, now economy will be twice as unbearable! :p So I leave in 9 days... August 2nd. I cant wait! The bit I think will be the most exciting, is walking through the doors at the airport in Kalmar, Sweden and seeing Dan! I love going on planes... so I am really looking forward to that part. My only hope is that I don't get sat next to some fat stinky annoying pig who will insist on ... read more

Last day in WA Everybody is at work Quiet day at home. Today is my last day in Perth and I have a few things to do like catch up on my blog, pack my bags, burn photos to CD (I think I have 1GB to transfer!), knit a baby toque/beanie for Sarah's friend who will be having twins shortly, and of course eat. haha I took it pretty easy and did a little knitting and watched a bit of morning television while having a bowl of cereal. Then I showered and washed up before booting up the computer. Bummer that there was a problem with the internet connection but no worries I have lots of photos to organize and burn to disk. Judging by the number of pics I already have (almost 5000!) I'm gonna ... read more

Away six months now Four and a half months to go Seen & done so much. Sarah has the day off and we'll be off exploring more of Freemantle today. It was cleaning day in the Dina household so I put in my two cents and helped with polishing the wooden windowsills and furniture. Ooh! You should see how shiny the coffee table is now. lol We had an early lunch before heading into Freemantle to catch a Captain Cook River Cruise down the Swan River. We couldn't have asked for nicer weather - nice and sunny but not too hot. We pretty much stayed out on the front deck of the boat to enjoy the scenery. There sure are a lot of expensive houses in the Perth/Freemantle area. We passed by the most expensive Australian ... read more

In Perth CBD A little window shopping Retail therapy! Sarah and Sharifa had a biweekly (or is that semi-weekly…anyway once every two weeks…) meeting to go to for a few hours so Sarah dropped me off in Perth to wander about the streets…basically doing a little shopping! There are basically two main streets full of shops that I browsed. I picked up a few things like a pair of sunnies at 50% off. Whoohoo! I met up again with Sarah around 1:30 and we headed towards the Metro food court. I had Japanese food on my mind and was going to order an assortment of sushi but thought the Chicken Katsudon with rice would be more filling. It was huge but that didn’t stop me from finishing it all. :) We got a hold of Karen ... read more