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Perth
Travel Blogs from Perth, Australia
Life is just too short
This is a top pick! I recently found out that one of my friends from back home in Huddersfield died. I have no details of how or why he died. Dave and I were friends for about 10 years. He drank in the pubs I worked in, we went to watch HTFC and even spent a full season sat ...
Happy New Year to you all and Happy Anniversary to
This is a top pick! US!!!! You may find it hard to beleive but we landed in Perth 1 year ago today!!!! And what a year 2007 was. I find it hard to beleive that life can get much better than it already has done for us but here's hoping we have an amazing 2008!!! So ...
Update from Perth
This is a top pick! Loving Perth... and all things Australian. It absolutely rocks that Australia has made it through to the second round of the World Cup. It makes it exciting to think that I will be in Germany in a fortnight to pick up on some of the atmosphere. It's ...
could this be home!!
This is a top pick! ... to settle for a box room in a shared house for now and keep looking while sorting out jobs this week. First impressions of Perth - definately the place to be!!!!!!! Its lovely and feels more like a huge town that a buzzing city - this could well become ...
Its offical were . . . . .
This is a top pick! ... was offered sponsorship with an Australian company and is simply the best polisher in the whole (as well as the highest paid) of Australia so he keeps telling me. So we applied for a 4-year business visa and last Friday we got confirmation that we have ...
Homecoming
This is a top pick! ... just how incredibly good the food has been when you eat out and the brilliant choice you have as a vegetarian. Who would have though Australia would be lagging so far behind on this one! Katharine and I had a fairly busy three days, on day one we ...
Police Alert + Flights are booked
This is a top pick! Just a quick update. As you all know its my birthday next week (your cards in the post i hear you saying)and I've managed to get hold of 2 tickets to see the POLICE LIVE IN CONCERT for the 3rd row in front of the stage, well just to the left a bit. ...
Week Twenty Four - Perth
This is a top pick! ... magic. Half expect Kylie to drop by for a chat but she is a no-show. Ron, the patriarch, gives us sufficient advice on Australia to totally change our travel plans. We will now go anticlockwise and fly to Tazmania first. Then fly to Melbourne. Hire a car ...
I Like to ride my bicycle, i like to ride my bike!
This is a top pick! ... check out all the very nice, multi-million dollar mansions, built next to the river. One day..! Other things that happened in Perth whilst we stayed their Walked into a friend from home, Louie from Churchill's bar, on Perth's high street. ...
Day 213
This is a top pick! An early start meant we left the convent by 7am. Good progress meant that we were in Perth by about 1pm and I was happy to be off the bus. I stayed in the grubby Globe Backpackers and met a couple of the girls, Kirsten from Denmark and Sandra from ...
Walking in a Summer Wonderland
This is a top pick! ... with unimaginative friends and family you should spend the book tokens they gave you to buy Bill Bryson's excellent book about Australia called 'Down Under' (which - maybe for political correctness reasons - was renamed 'In a Sunburned Country' in the ...
Going, going, gone.
This is a top pick! Here are all sorts of photos taken at my going away BBQ ...
Do I really want to go back?
This is a top pick! ... or Morocco. I'll have a total of 8 weeks in Europe. I'm also quite excited at having a month on the eastern coast of Australia, for I've constantly raved about how much I want to stay in Melbourne... I think a fortnight will be enough on this ...
Preparations begin, really for real
This is a top pick! Not long to go now... in fact, I am now within the magic 30 days before departure. That means for every receipt I get - that totals more than $300 - I can claim GST back on it at the airport customs as I leave. This essentially means an open-slather ...
Bulletproof, waterproof...
This is a top pick! Went to the travel doctor to have my final jab today - I now cannot die. Well, at least not from yellow fever, typhoid, hepatitis A/B, tetanus or polio. Apparently I can still become critically ill and wish for death, but I won't die. That brings my ...
Perth with the Van Vugt's!
This is a top pick! ... that afternoon was pretty much spent trying to get information on campervans because James and I have decided taking a campervan across Southern Australia is going to be our next journey. So Francis and James looked up, e-mailed, and called a bunch of ...
Nice day for a bike ride
This is a top pick! ... Even though our bodies still ache we don't wanna waste the day stuck in the house so we decide to take the bikes out for a spin. Australia is a pretty good place for a bike ride. There are plenty of cycle paths so I know I will be safe from on coming ...
Perth and the Fremantle doctor !
This is a top pick! ... and the water is either bright turquoise or dark where the reefs and wrecks lie under it. Rotto's inhabitants are even friendlier than Perth's, only most of them come in the form of a cross between an over-sized rat and a mini kangaroo. "Quokka's" are ...
Where has the year gone... travelling in 9 weeks!
This is a top pick! ... of work. Since I last wrote, I picked up an acting principal's position in Greenbushes which is 250km south east of Perth. I've got 8 weeks left of work this year before I begin contemplating travelling again. My trip through Central ...
I've Landed in Oz!
This is a top pick! After the long 12hour flight from Jo'burg, I land in Perth, the most western city in Australia. People here like to say it's the most isolated city on earth, being days away from the nearest city of comparable size in Australia, and being several hours ...
Perth
This is a top pick! ... straight off the slide and into the wall. H1 HUMMER RACING (29 Dec 2007) My next little adventure in and around Perth took place about 90 minutes north in a place called Lancelin. Lancelin has turned itself into a little tourist mecca thanks to ...
House hunting
This is a top pick! ... dream about the bath that never was. So we spend the next 2 days trawling up and down the streets of Perth, checking every notice board in every backpackers and internet place. Went through Saturday paper with a fine tooth comb all to no avail. ...
Everybody was Kong Food Fighting
This is a top pick! So now that we have settled in to this life here in Perth we finally got round to taking some pictures sunset ones mostly. There are quite a few beaches round here and the first one we visit is Cottleslow (which I know I have spelt wrong cause I ...
Happy New Year to you all and Happy Anniversary to
This is a top pick! US!!!! You may find it hard to beleive but we landed in Perth 1 year ago today!!!! And what a year 2007 was. I find it hard to beleive that life can get much better than it already has done for us but here's hoping we have an amazing 2008!!! So ...
Hugs from the land Downunder!
This is a top pick! Hi there all, Well after 7 months in Asia we finally landed yesterday afternoon in Perth Australia. Flight was ok, 5 hours, late departing, ok food...goregous views over the volcanoes of Indonesia as we flew over Java, and then eventually we came to ...
The Mild Mild West
This is a top pick! ... as we hit west coast time. A Swiss taxi driver took us to our hotel and unsurprisingly informed us that Perth was the best city in Australia something we'd heard from all the other taxi drivers about their respective towns. We arrived at the Grand ...
God why do i have to do this???????
This is a top pick! So the last time we spoke I said that Ben was planning on taking me diving - against my will of course! I tried faking illness; he was having none of it; I tried saying 'babe you would have a much more enjoyable dive with out me'; he was having none of ...
Gettin outta Bali!
This is a top pick! ... sitting there dizzy and wanting to get back into bed). We were fed up with just laying in hotel rooms though and booked a flight to Perth for the 12th where our friend Mary Ann's cousin was going to pick us up from the airport! After two days of pretty ...
Perth to Busselton
This is a top pick! ... gently climbing up into the jarrah forests that surround the tiny timber town of Dwellingup. Bushfires are a huge problem throughout Australia, as you enter an area a roadside sign indicates the current fire risk, with certain rules applying for each ...
