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Perth Slideshow
Perth
Travel Blogs from Perth, Australia
Perth City Walks
This is a top pick! ... all (Dom, Ferdy, Jorgen and myself) went to see Batman Begins at the cinema. Most places that we have been in Australia, the cinemas have "Cheap Tuesdays" when admission is reduced all day long. Finding new things I like about Perth every day. There ...
I Love Western Australia
This is a top pick! Hyden ~ Cervantes ~ Perth Western Australia is special for me. It is a place full of natural wonders and beautiful beaches where I can totally indulge myself in the beauty of nature. The sky above is always blue and maybe it is for this reason people ...
Esperance to Perth via Kalgoorlie
This is a top pick! ... with catchy up stuff, before we shuttle bussed it to the airport for our 11.35pm flight to Melbourne. South West Western Australia is a beautiful, isolated, laid back part of the world and a real contrast to the tourist horded highway that is the east ...
Room with a view
This is a top pick! ... Linc it's just perfect. We leave our stuff and go into town to buy some bits and pieces feeling more at home here in Perth than ever. As I said before it doesn't feel like a huge city but more like a big town, like the one we grew up in back in ...
3 sleeps to the big move
This is a top pick! I was debating whether or not to create a new travel log about our new life here in Perth but figure you lot have enough problems trying to keep up with this one so will just keep adding to this if and when we do anything half exciting. So we have 3 ...
Perth
This is a top pick! Stayed with Michelle, Michael's mate in North Perth and her crazy cat Mango. Her fella Blair was busy at the mines. We all had award winning Pizza from, Delizioso Cafe in Subiaco. It was recently voted the best gourmet pizza in ...
Back in Perth
This is a top pick! Some photographs from our last few days in Perth before heading back over to the East ...
The beginning in retrospect
This is a top pick! Butterflies at dawn the final zip photos in the garden passengers only beyond this point momentary panic subdued - passport found Australiana - tattoos, pen, flag a coffee barely stomached eternity a call hugs a kiss goodbye tears the violent ...
Glory supporter, who me, no never!! HTFC til I DIE
This is a top pick! ... spent soba back then for sure. So obviously I'm keeping a track of TOWN but I have to confess that I went to watch Perth Glory today and what a day it was. All the memories came flooding back, the excitement, the adrenaline rush, the singing and ...
Home
This is a top pick! ... with these much longed for fish and chips - as I'm asked how it feels to be home. I don't respond. I just watch... Perth is beautiful this summer evening. Balmy; relaxed; home. The familiar grassy tiers overlooking the beach; the unique wisp of ...
Questions you need the answers to if coming to Oz
This is a top pick! ... the female population is smaller than the male population? (Italy) A: Yes, gay nightclubs. Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia? (France) A: Only at Christmas. Q: I was in Australia in 1969 on R+R, and I want to contact the girl I dated ...
WA summary
This is a top pick! Western Australia is beautiful but beauty in this sense comes with a hefty price tag, especially for South Africans. We found countless beautiful beaches and landscapes, very friendly people, good food and great wines. No wonder so many South Africans ...
Indian Pacific from Sydney - Perth
This is a top pick! ... , I had a milkshake and generally here they do make milkshakes rather well! The next morning we started to approach Perth finally. In Australia, they tend to be fussy about moving diseases and bugs that affect fruit, vegetables and other various things ...
We've arrived!
This is a top pick! Last night we decided to complete our road trip across Australia by making the short trip north to Perth this morning. So after checking out of the Old Firestation backpackers and doing a little sightseeing around Fremantle, we headed into the world's ...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once
This is a top pick! Ben caught a crab a live, why did he let it go because it bit his finger so. So this morning I get a phone call from Ben at about eleven o'clock just as I'm settling down to watch Fashion House (an American day time drama which is so badly acted its ...
Australia - Back to Perth
This is a top pick! ... pick up some post and then headed out for a Thai restaurant that we had our eye on during our previous stay in Perth. After a gorgeous meal and relaxing evening we returned to Hotel Northbridge to grab a quick nightcap from the bar before parking up for ...
life goes on and on
This is a top pick! I know I've been slack at keeping this up to date. Like I keep saying time is wizzing by and I guess we have little to say as our once exciting lifes are back to being as mundane as your. Unless of course you are on the road and reading this. If you are ...
It's nearly time to go....
This is a top pick! ... is the following (at a high level...you will just have to keep coming back to read the detail); 16th July Fly from Perth to Santiago, Chile (via Sydney and Auckland) 16th July - Arrive in Santiago and spend overnight 17th July - Fly Santiago to ...
Fly the Skies With Virgin Blue
This is a top pick! ... the $149 price tag was worth it! That's like flying from Vancouver to Halifax (or something like that)! Virgin Blue is Australia's version of Westjet, but it's a little "shinier/sexier" with newer planes, leather seats and an in-flight magazine entitled ...
Its in the stars!!!
This is a top pick! ... city' and yesterday on the train there was a young local girl who also called it a town so glad to see it's not just us. Perth is indeed a city though it's not your average city and really is more like a huge town spread over a vast area and it is the ...
Familiar faces from far away places
This is a top pick! A couple of days ago I ran into Rachel from Calgary (whom I met in Pai, Thailand) Moved hostels this morning (kind lady at Cheviot Lodge gave refund for unused days) Now in Ozi Inn for $99 a week (but no freebies) At least it's ...
Messing about on the river
This is a top pick! We don't seem to get as many bank holidays here in Perth as you do over at that freezing cold place at the other side of the world, so when we do get one we relish the day or two days that we get. Of course Easter break is world wide and getting two days ...
Aaaaarse!
This is a top pick! ... desert, dodged roos, camels and dinosaur bones and I get 15k's short of my destination and wind up with a phillips head through my rubber. In Fremantle, just a sniff away from Perth. Arse. There's nothing else to say.. Kilometres eaten: ...
Tour of the Park
This is a top pick! According to Trip Advisor it is Kings Park that's the number one attraction for Perth and I can definitely see why. It is to the west of the CBD and offers great views of the city and has a vast botanical garden, natural bush walks and rivers flowing ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ALL
This is a top pick! G'day everyone. . . So it's that time of year for our family when you just about get over christmas and then all these bloody birthdays come along! So HAPPY BIRTDAY to: Uncle John - just gone i know and technically i didn't forget cause it was ...
Perth
This is a top pick! ... over to Rob's room and followed two blokes in hard hats and very un-pretty shoes in. Apparently everyone here works in Perth, English, French and German waiters, builders and chip shop staff, they have been here for months and months and seem ...
Update
This is a top pick! ... for a night. At the end of the year, a bit more of the same but new year's eve in Chiang Mai, a business class flight Perth to Singapore with my mum, and about 2 weeks in Cambodia to re-visit Angkor Watt and Phnom Penh. I hope to visit Geraldine ...
Doing the Spiderman
This is a top pick! Day Twenty-Six: - Kalgoorlie - Coolgardie - Southern Cross - Merredin - Perth Almost two months of tolerating imbeciles would take its toll on anyone I reckon, which is why I'm surprised my chin's still up, even if I'm on the verge of grabbing one of ...
Touchdown in Perth
This is a top pick! ... as being truly alive in Asian cultures I visited. It was sad to hear that the suicide rates of western cultures such as Australia have spiralled out of control and school personnel are being asked more and more to take on the pastoral care side of ...
Day 25-28: Perth
This is a top pick! ... them with huge concrete things (that's the 70's for you!). We stopped for a coffee and cake in Fremantle and came back into Perth along a different route taking in the wealthier parts of Perth, with some very very nice houses which I'm sure one day I'll ...