Perth
Travel Blogs from Perth, Australia
Perth Day 1
I arrived in Perth yesterday afternoon and came straight here to my hostel in Fremantle. Fremantle was Perth's port city, but has been swallowed up by Greater Perth and is now pretty much another suburb. I really like it here. It's really laid back, ...
Luckily we are travelling while we are healthy
There we go again: I get up with a swollen face (NO pictures this time). Tony gets me a doctor's appointment at noon. Yes, probably an allergy. I have to go to a medical center to have some blood taken. Next week I will know whether it is ...
The first days in Australia
10/04: Up early, taxi airport. Expensive and pretty useless airport lounge. Malaysia Airline to Perth. Which turns out to be a pleasant flight. Choice of movies, whenever you want them to start. AND the purser keeps on topping up our wine! Dad ...
Straight Across Australia (without my pack)
... as the seats! Quantas is now dubbed the minature airline to me. I mean, I am pretty small and I barely fit. We arrived into Perth early but I spent half the day at the airport because my pack went missing. Ug. Oh well. I wasn't going to let myself ...
5 in a bed
... to Perth, where I was subject to a search by a sniffer dog and reprimanded for trying to bring 2 apples into Western Australia (strict quarantine laws here). We rented our people carrier (enough space for Brads parents too) then headed to the hotel ...
Australia Day in Perth
... glow before dissipating slowly to the river below. We all stood with our sparklers for the Australian national anthem, Advance Australia Fair, as we looked around seeing people adorned in nothing but flags and bodies painted in patriotic colors. The ...
Last day in Fremantle
All too quickly it's come around to my last day in Fremantle. Tomorrow, I'm leaving very early in the morning to go to Cervantes. Cervantes is about 4 hours by coach up the West Coast and is right next to the Pinnacles National Park, which are loads of ...
Landed in Perth
Hi guys We have landed in Perth, Sunny Oz..... we will be updating the blog over the next few days.... keep watching. We are very tired - been up fr over 24 hours!!! Thanks for all the messages. Speak soon, Sarah and Stuart ...
Day Tour out of Perth
After a huge day yesterday and a good nights sleep, I was up early for a day trip out of Perth. Today I headed north of Perth about 100km Sand boarding Pinnicles Wildlife Park Wildflowers Echoing Wall ...
G'day mate!
... kangaroo steak. What made it even better was the mashed pototoes and gravy! Anyway, enough about food and beer. Today we have picked up a camper van and are heading to Fremantle for the night before exploring the south west of Western Australia ...
Western Australia & some southern adventures!
... bar and it felt like we were in a bar in New Zealand there were so many fans from there. (Many residents in Western Australia area are New Zealanders). On Sunday, ...
Wine tasting
... on the Sunday. On the Monday we went for a full day of wine tasting in one of the wine making regions just south of Perth. Swan Valley (I couldn't find the location on google maps so i've put the pin in Perth). Over the day we must have tried atleast 30 ...
Apartment Found
we are sitting in a internet cafe here in perth, and the weather is scorching today, its 40 deg c, or 104 deg f, even the breeze is so hot, so we thought we might as well take this opportunity to let u know more of what weve been doing. ysterday we spent ...
10 Days to go!!
Well countdown has begun 10 days to go and I still have so much to organise. Well it feels like that anyway!! I have so many lists it's not funny and im ticking them off as I go along. Best to be safe than sorry, as they say HMMMM... This time ...
Pizza pizza pizza
So it's the morning after the night before and what I really want to know is 'how the hell did Dayne get in last night'?! Dayne reckons everything can be back to normal, my head and heart have been here there and everywhere so I am not so sure. We have a ...
Goodbye Carnamah (By Anna)
... blog after abandoning it for 6 months and it’s our mission to fill in the gaps from where we last left you in Western Australia all the way through to our current destination on the other side of the country: New South Wales. I recently added a new ...
First days in Perth
... Mecca. More "all-you-can-eat for $4" restaurants than you can shake a stick at. It's great. A typical Saturday spent shopping in Perth and drinking coffee in the cafes - oh, and booking tours for the next 3 days! Which is not bad, since we only went ...
Gelato Goodbye
Today was church day, with some good quality time thrown in. After Sunday morning service, we went to Zing's to have lunch where I had an awesome steak and guinness pie. Oh my word! It was so good! Afterwards, we walked around the Hillary's boat harbour ...
Coolbellup...
... UK, however when you are used to days of sunshine and lazing around on the beach winter brings around a cold shock. Australia has such a wonderful outdoors culture that you often find yourself a little lost in the chilly months ranging from June to ...
Caversham Wildlife park
Title says it all :)) We fed Kangaroos and saw a wombat up close and allsorts of other animals, We had a great time :) And Dad, the pressie we got u, well Dave made me buy it hahaahahahah That`ll get u thinkin ;) MEssage from Ruby: I fed the kangaroos ...
Decks and the city
... need of comfort, this outdoor ed. hostel thing was like a night at the Sheraton. Hurrah. We finally arrived in Perth, uncrumpled ourselves and staggered fully loaded with rucksacks, sleeping bags, rubbish rollmats and random items hanging off by string ...
Perth
... in India where I waited for six hours until my flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia then another four hours waiting until my flight to Perth, Australia. But here I am and ready for the next journey into the unknown. Lisa had found a place to stay for ...
Not amused!
... It took them ages to check me in as they couldn't see the flight and then after waiting an hour for my luggage to arrive at Perth airport....I've been told I'll get it on Wednesday at the earliest. I only slept for about 2 hours on the flight and have ...
Immigration
... in Fremantle. I learned alot about immigration. Many immigrants came to WA. After World War II 5.3 million people came to Australia. WA wanted people from England to be workers in housing construction and public works. Migrants needed to be "young, fit ...
Dreams of Meeka
Arising in the morning there is still a slight strop in the air. I grab a shower at the beach...I'm used to roughing it these days. A far cry from my life back in the UK, when I had fake nails and hair straighteners to worry about. Dayne grabs a shower ...
Trzeba miec oczy z tylu glowy...
Ostatnie kilka dni spedzamy na kempingu. Ustawiona nas na samym poczatku przy wysokich drzewach na ktorych swoje gniazda maja Magpie (bialo-czarne ptaki, ikona Australii), ktore bardzo lubimy poniewaz pieknie spiewaja. Problem zaczyna sie jednak wtedy, ...
