Fremantle, Australia Travel Blogs

Fremantle
May 5, 2008

... in a welcome lack of dippy, stinking hippie traveller types. That was our first night in Basil, this time, back in Fremantle, we had to counsel ourselves with fish & chips in the famous Cicerello's. The rest of the night was spent tootling ...

Fremantle
Apr 18, 2008 (3 photos)

... fridge and finally, unpacked. Pulled into our first campsite very proud at having completed the first leg of our trip to Broome. Australia, New Zealand and Fiji being my 'planning responsibility' I had planned as far as arriving in Perth and getting to ...

Animals and Airplanes
Nov 20, 2006 (15 photos)

Just a short one from Vinny. Not all of us have throw ourselves into such a heavy employment load as my cohort. I've been taking it rather easier. A few gardening jobs here and there. One weeding for two old Aussie brothers, who started sucking down ...

Theodor Storm
Nov 7, 2006 (33 photos)

... and in no time we were boarding the Theodor Storm, the aforementioned cargo ship on a journey from Europe to Singapore to Australia and back again. Our first pleasant surprise was the quality of the room - it was clean, for starters. We were expecting ...

Christmas Spirit
Dec 17, 2006

  "Don't worry, you're not my type" "Smart?" "Single"     -- Casino Royale      It has admittedly been a bit of a long while since we were able to update our wonderful Travelpod site. This is mostly because we ...

Vinny's Vision
Dec 20, 2006 (25 photos)

... smashed all round the park and falling on his face in the field. The big mans's antics all helped by his recent appearance on Australia's celebrity fat guy show. John Embury showed how to do it with the ball 3 wickets for 20 runs off his 4 overs and Adam ...

The Ashes
Dec 21, 2006 (24 photos)

... than chase it. A quick photo call later, and the game was on... Rosie O Grady Vs The Old Firestation Backpackers Fremantle, 18th December 2006 Attendance: 20,000 (rounded up to the nearest 20,000) Officials: Umpire: Mike Scorer: Alex Rosie O ...

Imitating Life....
Nov 20, 2006

... been here two weeks, and therefore my observations are merely observations. I'd heard a bit about Aborigines before arriving in Australia... There were a couple of them in Crocodile Dundee II for starters. And Vinny knew a thing or two. I'd spoken ...

Doing Porridge
Feb 2, 2005 (1 photos)

... the airport I arrived five hours later on the opposite side of this giant country, in Perth, Western Australia. I took a shuttle bus from the airport to Fremantle, a small suburb of Perth south of the Swan River, and my shuttle bus driver kindly gave me a ...

Down Under
Feb 13, 2008

Zimbabwe is the only country in the World where I could walk into a casino and put 10,000,000 on red, and not care about the result. After all, 10m Zim dollars is just less than a pound. On our last day in Vic Falls I went white water rafting on the ...

Pete Moore
Nov 6, 2006

... In your face Pete Moore. Vinny and I have, six hours ago, achieved the slightly difficult and traversed the globe from Nottingham to Australia without flying. We feel warm inside. Warm and bubbly. So in your face Pete Moore. And, while we're at it, ...

Travelpod.... A Retrospective
Nov 25, 2006

... . Devoid of jobs, homes and commitments, we are bums of an international scale. At the time of writing, we are currently in Australia, and have been on the road for nearly six months. Our Journey thus far has taken us through Holland, Denmark, Sweden, ...

Day 165
Feb 28, 2007 (5 photos)

... had beaten Barcelona 2-1 in the week and then gone on to spank Sheffield United 4-0! Roll on Man Utd at the weekend! Fremantle is a culture shock. It's lovely - don't get me wrong, but everyone is white, everyone speaks English and a white person ...

Freo
Jan 21, 2008 (5 photos)

... I've worked in and around alcohol for the last 10 years and it still excites me to find those special spots. Fremantle's speciality is definatly is boutique styled beers, the ones that pop with flavour wether it be chocolatey/coffee flavoured dark beers ...

Working Men
Nov 14, 2006

... need to worry about the other stuff (you know, fillet steak, ballet tickets, singing lessons and pottery classes). Anyway, Australia is a wonderful place - and it is reassuring to see that if anything these guys have MORE barfights than in England... ...

Days 166 - 170
Mar 5, 2007 (8 photos)

... days have been about getting used to Australia. I've got a sim card and a new phone number, and I've also been talking with a job agency here. Fremantle is a place that many Australians are very fond of and I can see why. It's been a great place to start.

The World's A Stage
Nov 24, 2006

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." -- William Shakespeare, As You Like It "You are without a doubt ...

Coldest day in four decades
Jun 13, 2005

Late morning, walked to markets in the rain (rained all day) Small, not as good as Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide Coldest day in region in forty years (for this time of year) Back to markets for bargains with one of the hostel staff, but prices ...

What We Did On Our Holidays
Jan 1, 2007 (34 photos)

... Die Hard (Greatest Christmas movie of all time) It has been a thoroughly entertaining week here in disgustingly sunny Australia. Despite my claims that without coldness and rain it just isn't Christmas, the team at the Backpackers put on a ...

Her Name Was Lola
Jan 5, 2007 (10 photos)

Yellow. That is the best way to describe our van/bus/house that will be taking us around the country on our way to Melbourne. Around the hostel it has become a thing of legend, reffered to as "The Bumper Yellow Fun Bus" by most, and "Lola" by us. ...

More relaxing....
Apr 5, 2006 (2 photos)

... still makes me think how lucky we are to have a simple and effective system in the NHS (plug over). Eventually get back to Fremantle and chill on the Esplanade (park) in the sun are setting up for a festival this weekend which Jamie Culum is playing at. ...

Doing the Spiderman
Aug 25, 2007 (30 photos)

... morphine oozing through my veins. The ordeal was over. Never again. An hour later we were fast asleep like babies. Fremantle Following the trauma of the previous day we opted to explore world's most isolated city and its surroundings by train and ...

Christmas Message
Dec 23, 2006

"It's Christmas Eve. It's-it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we-we-we smile a little easier, we-w-w-we-we-we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year we are the people that we always hoped we would be." ...

Farewell Down Under
Mar 14, 2006 (28 photos)

... hat. It was the fact that I was wearing shorts. Not too bothered, I strolled back to the party, taking the scenic route back (Fremantle is the absolutely easiest city to get lost in). Thanks to the hat, I made plenty of new friends along the way and was ...

Day 164
Feb 27, 2007 (5 photos)

... Russian guy) informed me that immigration would come in the morning now as it was too late for them now. That meant another night on board in Fremantle Port and I had trouble getting to sleep (my beer crate was empty) and I was so close to my goal!

Day 28-35: Perth/Sydney
Oct 19, 2004 (5 photos)

... of nice little cafes and restaurants with AMAZING cakes and stuff.....took all my will power to resist. Decided to go to the Fremantle Prison as Sarda and Darren had said it was worth a look. Turns out you can't just wander around the place yourself, ...

back to Freo
May 28, 2007

  

Crickey!
May 19, 2007 (8 photos)

... .  Imagine if Crocodile Dundee had a scooter - that would have made his movies 10x better.  or not. The Fremantle Maritime Museum is rather new and impressive...built over-top an old submarine base that was one of the busiest, after ...

A day trip to Fremantle
Sep 10, 2004 (3 photos)

... areas. Today we caught the train to Fremantle. It takes 30 mins and is well worth a day trip there. We went round the Fremantle Prison which was in use until 1991 when they closed it, and shifted all the inmates to a new prison 20km away. Was a very good ...

Carpe Diem
Apr 4, 2007 (7 photos)

Hey guys!! Please forgive the name of this entry, but a very good friend of mine taught it to me yesterday and if I dont write it somewhere then I will forget what it means! Its latin for 'seize the day', but bet you already know that. Anyway, ...