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Fremantle Slideshow
Fremantle
Travel Blogs from Fremantle, Australia
Zurueck...
... die Strassen unsicher gemacht, ohne Geld, mit ersten Versuchen einen Job zu bekommen und nun einfach als Tourist. Fremantle hat sehr viel Style, wunderschoene Gebaeude, spitzen Pubs und Restaurants... dennoch zu teuer fuer einen normalen Backpacker der ...
Freo part Deux!
Hey Peeps! So I txt Ellen this afternoon and we were talking about various diffrent things and she demanded that I update the blog- so here I am! I have had a chance to have a better look about the town! Cara arrived from the UK last week so I have ...
HRH Prince Nutjob
So our trip was coming to premature end but we still had one important stop left on the way back to Perth. We went to see HRH Prince Leonard who set himself up an independent state called the Hutt River Province. It all started after a dispute with the ...
Catch up.
... and drinking goon, 5 - At the roundhouse at night drinking goon 6 - At pubs and clubs Other things we did involved: Fremantle Prison (See previous blog) Visiting Perth Zoo - Thanks to Emma D mentioning it to me. We visited Cottesloe which has ...
Freo Calling
... by all zoo visitors, bless him. We also saw plenty of 'Roos and of course the lovely Koalas and Tasmanian Devils. 'Freo' - Fremantle - is the port town attached to Perth and we spent a few days there relaxing. Andy took on the Freo golf course no ...
Fremantle
... Circle House (old gaol). The museum features a Dutch Wreck Gallery of shipwrecks lost off the west coast of Australia, including the famous Batavia in 1628, the Zuytdorp in 1712 and the Vergulde Draeck in 1656. I found this museum ...
Looking for work
Things are going well here in Fremantle, the hostel I'm staying at is really nice and there is plenty of space here. There is also a really nice girls only dorm area I'm staying in which has seperate bathrooms, living room and kitchen area, so it's really ...
trawling the car dealer network
another newspaper we got yesterday has an ad for a van from a garage the other side of perth( close to where we were staying last week but we didnt know that at the time) so the hunt is on again. ryan isnt interested so he stays at woodman point for a ...
A Princess finds a Home! Cruise Anyone?
G'Day Mates! Last week a Princess arrived in the Port of Fremantle! The Sun Princess Cruise Ship will now make Fremantle (Freo) its home port in 2008 and 2009. Although we've taken a few Princess cruises in the past, seeing this "Love ...
more madness from oz
Rottness were this crazy little creature lives for some camping madness and beautiful beaches and a night out at the orient for simons leaving. Ok so the pictures will tell a thousand stories so i'l leave it at that . . ...
Preparing to Leave Freo and What Jail is Like...
... else as we have had here. Its all fine though and we head out to get dinner before heading to the Ghost Tour of Fremantle Prison. Showering before dinner I manage to get Shower Gel in my eyes which turns to gunk and nearly blinds me. I have to pull ...
Op shopping in Freo
... bad influence") and take me to Fremantle for the day. I was so excited to return to Freo as I'd really loved shopping in the Fremantle Markets – and Jac had promised the best crepes since Broome. I was heartbroken when we got to Freo and the ...
Diary excerpt
Found scrawled in crayon on bus shelter wall. It's dark when I wake up. Some days the moonlight reflects on the ripples in the ocean as dawn begins to break behind the beachfront apartments. Today, as ever, the beach is populated by those whose ...
Back to work... but not yet.
Today we finally line ourselves up some work. Starting one week on Monday we will be pruning vines at a vineyard of all places. Its in a place called Frankland south of here. This gives us only a couple of days to sort out a car so we can head north ...
Riding Rottnest
We all woke up early and caught the Rottnest Express to Rottnest Island. We hired bikes and rode the 24km circuit around the island checking out the 62 beaches and trying to spot Quokkas. We returned to Freo tired and with sore ...
Freemantle
... slow!) ambitions for today were high, we were hoping to do a bike/snorkel trip to Rottness Island just outside Freo (Fremantle) but ended up chilling at the mad monk for some awesome tapas (pigs belly and scallops, salt and pepper calamari, and ...
rambling on
destination fremantle today, about an hours drive along the coast road. with only a week left for the kids on tour jims thoughts again turn to a new motor for us hillbillies(lots of them out here already) and having got an autotrader mag yesterday there ...
Back to civilisation
... to the Perth depot and then carted all out stuff by foot through the city before catching a train to our apartment in Fremantle. We were pleasently greeted with a 3 bedroom, centrally located apartment with comfy beds, complete with pillows and the ...
Back in Perth
Und da ich ploetzlich einen Tag mehr hab, hab ich mir auch noch Fremantle angesehen und bin prompt im Gefaengnis gelandet. Neeeein, keine Panik ... ist seit 1991 nicht mehr in Betrieb. Weshalb? Weil sie dort KEIN FLIESSEND WASSER haben. Muss ja nett ...
Ist Zufriedenheit Glück?
Die Zeit rinnt dahin. Ich bin immer noch in Fremantle, Western Australia. Ich fühle wie sich die Angst der Familie hebt: wird sie dort sesshaft? Warum ist sie an diesem Ort so lange? Zugegeben, hier lässt es sich aushalten: Fotografie Workshops, ...
'Freo'
Today we headed south of Perth to Fremantle or 'Freo' as the Ozzies call it. Nice place - lots of old style buildings (colonial), bit like stepping back in time. The markets were good selling everything from emu oil face cream to fish and hammocks! Saw ...
Fremantle
... 10 minutes later they headed under the bridge and downstream towards the sea, but what a way to end our visit to Western Australia. W.A. is highly recommended! Next we fly to Alice Springs to pick up our 4WD campervan for our 10 day trip to ...
Fremantle for some 'retail therapy'
... for the night. This time we had plenty of time and all bought tickets. Good thing because they were checking. Once we got to Fremantle, Janene picked us up and we went to her house and watched "The Eulogy". It was the most random movie ever! This ...
Looking for a car...
... for them everywhere. Due to the strange registration rules between states we also need to get one that's registered in Western Australia. This narrows our options slightly. We also do a bit of job hunting but its still nothing doing. Even casual ...
Ein Auto mit Augen und eines mit Herz.
... einer Wiese am South Beach die Schubladen zusammen, keine 10 Meter neben uns feierten n haufen Franzosen (die gibt es hier in Fremantle auch jede menge) ne wilde Party und hin und wieder kam jemand auf'n Plaeuschchen vorbei. Ja so langsam wurde aus der ...
Fremantle Prison
we decided it was about time we saw some proper sights rather than spending all day at the beach or out shopping, which dean of course hated!! we got to the prison just in time for the 1.00pm tour, our guide was a lovely chap who was fom Dorset in ...
Hello immigration...remember me?
... this hot before? So we immediately headed for refreshments at the Little Creatures Brewery by the dock...yum! Ollie lives in Fremantle which was hosting the Freo Street Arts Festival this weekend. While Ollie was working I stopped by the festival with my ...
Freo in a day...
... I'm glad I did because I really did learn a lot. I struck on up the coast line coming to the Roundhouse, West Australia's first prison, and a great lookout point over the sea and the city. Then the Marine Wreck museum which was fascinating from a ...
An unexpected music lesson...
... me over to a small window display, which I'd have missed completely left to my own devices. On the wall was a map of Australia, but not the map we are used to seeing. Instead it showed in different coloured shading, the different tribal areas of land ...