After a very long 24 hours traveling from the suburbs of London back to Perth (without much sleep on the packed planes), I was interested to discover that AQIS (Australian Quarantine Inspection Service) does a rather **** job when it comes to quarantine! Being the honest person I am, I answered 'yes' to "Have you been in South America in the las...

Perth Happenings 21 January 2008 We explore Kings Park for a full 12 hour day. This place was amazing we arrived shortly after 10am and arrived shortly after 10pm. This park is a 404ha bushland reserve with landscaped gardens, walkways, lakes, a war memorial, childrens playgrounds, open air cinema and excellent views over the city and the Swan R...

In 24 hours we leave home to head off to the unknown - we must be nuts. Before we leave I still need to finish (and start) the pre-start for our new house which will start being built while we're away, finalise the rest of my business stuff, meet with property managers for the unit, clean the house, pack, and do some shopping. I'm actually looki...

Nederlanders! Alles goed met u, hoop het, met mij iig wel! Tijd voor een hopelijk nog interessant verhaaltje vanuit Perth na een vanzelfsprekend 'duizelingwekkende' reis van Darwin via de Westkust naar hier. Na meermalen voor koeien, emu's, schapen, slangen, hagedissen, wallabi's, kangeroe's, dronken abo's en andere gedierten te hebben moeten re...

I know I've been slack at keeping this up to date. Like I keep saying time is wizzing by and I guess we have little to say as our once exciting lifes are back to being as mundane as your. Unless of course you are on the road and reading this. If you are on the road savour every moment. Work is back to being great well as great as a job can be an...

leaving perth for the excitment and adventrue of a life time. saying good buy to my family is alway difficult but it is only for 2 months and it made it easier knowing that dave was with me = europe here i come.

I tried packing on the weekend and man I have so much ****! Therefore I am not going to buy anything else except some clothes that I really need. I have no idea how I am going to get everything in the backpack. Luckily this time I don't have to carry it around everywhere. I bought my shoes and am beginning to wear them in. Although I do feel at ...

A little 10 and a half hour jet plane ride and I was back in Oz. I'd barely even had time to play Eye Spy out of the window. Too easy! I felt very relaxed when I got to Tullamarine Airport. I'd done the whole 'losing a day' thing again and re-assumed my Southern Hemisphere self on Saturday afternoon in Oz. I was just waiting for my bags at the l...

The only difficulty with the start fo the travels was when we arrived at the airport and told that we would not be able to fly into South Africa without arrangements to leave the country within the allowed travel visa length. OK, quick and easy solution, buy the shortest, cheapest flight to refund as soon as you land.

Today we flew into Perth in the early afternoon. It was basically a pit stop as we are being picked up for our tour to Exmouth at 7am tomorrow morning. We also had to pop back to the hostel in Freo when we got back as I very cleverly left the sleeping bags there, and we needed to supply our own. It was actually a bit of a blessing as I was able ...