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Perth & Fremantle
From May 18th,2004, to May 17th,2005, I have travelled around Australia with a work-and-holiday visa. During my stay, I visited a lot of cities including Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart, and Gold Coast.
In Perth, I stayed in Grand Central Backpackers hostel for $100 per week. The rate was not bad at all. I made friends …
An outback job in the pipeline
Not satisfied with the employment agency we signed up with yesterday, we sign up with another one – Aussie jobs. We have to wait for over an hour before being seen, but it pays off. Anissa, the manager of the agency, finds us a job straight away! The Balladonia Hotel/Motel is looking for a couple to work with them for the next few months, …
Aqwa
... days.Maybe it's because of the comments on the websites or the cost of money.When we got inside the aquarium,it looked amazing.And by that I mean AMAZING.Lots of beautiful fish were in the tank,and colorful coral was set in the tank too.All kinds of beautiful fish lived there,even eels!And boys,trust me,it doesn't get girly at all.There's something you will like too,but I won't mention it yet.In the first part of aqwa,there were loads of fish and in 1 ...
Perth
... listed town of Guildford where there are some lovely old buildings dating from 1840’s. We managed to abstain from the wineries as we drove round the valley but the Margaret River Chocolate Company and its offerings couldn’t be passed by. Had our picnic lunch at Whiteman Park, a 4,000 hectare "recreation reserve" which contained, amongst the usual picnic areas, woodland and lakes, a wildlife park, motor museum and a tram! Amazingly there is ...
Fremantle
... bus up to the Fremantle Jail where we did a couple of tours of the jail, on which told of the history of the jail and gave a full tour of the inside including the gallows and the solitary confinement cells. The cells were tiny and the conditions quite primitive. The jail only closed in 1991 and has been home to some notorious prisoners including Archie Butterly who escaped from the Melbourne Remand Centre when he and another ...