Underground Backpackers Perth

The flight to Perth was uneventful and we arrived at our hostel just before midnight. We were pretty tired since Perth is two hours behind the east coast so it was actually 2am for us. We went straight to sleep once we'd made our bed. The following day we slept in a little and then headed off to run a few errands. First we went to the post office. Our tickets for the Lions game in South Africa had been sent to Alan's house in Ireland so Alan's parents had forwarded on the package to a post of...

in a nutshell: We left a sweltering Brisbane yesterday morning, saying goodbye to Pete & Lisa who have been wonderful hosts to us over the last week, and arrived in an overcast Perth, Western Australia, where it's about 10 degrees cooler! We are staying in the Underground Backpackers (logo is like the London Underground symbol...) in Northbridge which is where it all 'happens' in Perth, lots of bars and restaurants. We are going to be in WA for 2 weeks and decided we were old enough and u...

Heading further South again we had yet another change of driver!! This one sounded like he was heavy breathing down his mic every time he spoke to us like some dirty porn star!! Nice! Anyway were we in for some long drives on this stretch of the trip which equalled lots of snoozing and silliness! Our first stop 800km later was at Coober Pedy - a town made famous for its opal mines and the fact that alot of the houses and buildings are underground because of the temperature (highest recorded w...

Tuesday December 23rd It's so refreshing to arrive somewhere and not be met by a horde of taxi drivers or guesthouse owners yelling, spitting, shoving, and begging for your custom. After a thankfully uneventful flight to Perth via Singapore (no upgrade means my Upgrade Ratio has rapidly descended to 25%), I rushed in to the toilet to see if the water really does circle down the plughole the other way (those of you who have seen the classic Simpsons episode when they visit Australia will know ...

Well I have finally arrived in Australia. Been here since Friday. I really like Perth, the people are very friendly and the weather is really nice. I spent most of the day at the beach in Scarborough today. Lovely beaches over here. Got talking to a cracked Aussie from Scarborough that just drinks and is off his tits most of the time. He sells porn for a living and wanted me to come roo shooting with him some time. I decided against it, hehe! The hostel (Underground Backpackers) I am staying ...

Brrrrr. I wioke up to my first morning in OZ and I am freezing. I didn't even know this type of cold existed over here. My feet are like ice and my teeth are chattering...no wonder when the door to the balcony is open and it's 4 degrees out there. Purrrrr...purrrrr...meow. No way there is a cat on my bed. One of the guys in the room brought the cat in last night and it must have somehow climbed the invisible ladder up to my bed and hey presto here it was. That kind of made up for the fact I w...

Had so much fun in Perth - it was so great to see John (my big brother who put us up) and Jo (his lovely girlfriend), and the latest addition to the family - the cutest dog in the world, JJ (for all those Sittingbourners - after John and Jo's initials - not the infamous JJ's club!!) Quick note to the folks - John is well and looking after himself brilliantly :) Luckily John and Jo had the first Monday off so we went to the beach in the morning for some sunbathing and took a dip in the sea - p...

24 Oct 03 Up at 05:30am and caught the underground train to Singapore airport for my flight to Australia. Enjoyed the flight, watching the new version of the The Italian Job (actually quite good) and an episode of The Office (so funny!) arrived in Perth feeling like sh*t after some great nights out in Singapore and very little sleep. Trying very hard to hide my sore throat, cough and blocked up nose as Australia is still being very careful about SARS and I really didn't fancy a week in quaran...

So yes, i did make it to Perth eventually! got out of the airport and into the freezing air at 1am and just crashed out in a taxi. i've been here nearly 2 weeks now- so what have i been up to? i wish i'd updated this earlier coz its a bit of a blur now!

well, it seems i brought some sun but seriously, at night time, its like a night in january back home!

perth is a pretty cool city. the centre is real small and i'm staying right in the middle of it so when i woke up on my firs...

Soooo, we've been having some lovely weather down here in sunny sunny Perth.
ahem.
I awoke to find the world ending on Sunday evening. I thought you only got thunder storms when it was hot!?
Strange times.
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After a long long day standing outside an art gallery trying to get people to sign up to The Wilderness Society on Wednesday I quit my job! It wasn't bad in that I managed to stop people and talk to them about our work (they are trying to stop a massive gas processing ...