Aarons Perth

... streets all day. The divide between the 'settler' and the 'native' here seems huge and difficult to swallow. <br><br>Another frustration has been the technology (or lack of it!). It has felt like stepping back a century compared with Asia. Internet cafes are expensive, slow and seriously frustrating! Wifi is non-existent in most places and trying to download something is just a joke! So, it has made corresponding with people much more tiresome and ...

... we had visited.<br><br>Simon took the kids for an afternoon to ride on the Wheel of Perth (a big ferris wheel). Hilary, who loves to be terrified, describes:<br><br> We went on a ferris wheel near the carillon. It was extremely scary. As we hopped on Dad started saying lots of things like "Oh, it&#8217;s going to collapse! Oh, that groaning sound must mean that the ferris wheel is going to break ...

... it the bikii is on and I am in the pool!! I convince Jamie to come in too but he is out within seconds due to the freezing temperature of the water!! I hang about in the pool for Kirsty to get back in the hope she will be impressed with me but by the look of her she isn't!!<br><br>We head to the pool table and the games begin...Jamie loses and he has to get in the pool. I lose and I have to buy him a beer. First game is over and I end up ...

... much all down hill from there! I had a few drinks at the hostel with Luke from Adelaide in the bar. Now then- if i tell you that 6 cops came in on Sunday night and took him away to a psych ward you can guess this is not a good thing! This boy was weird, and not in a good way. But, at the time, it seemed better than drinking alone. Not so much when he started spouting some really really homophobic **** and I nearly wrapped a pool cue round his head. It amazes me, I can not ...

... I get home...then I realised I'd have to feed it really gross things...) We also stopped at an area called Hutt River Province which was really interesting. This is a small breakaway country within Australia, run by Prince Leonard & Princess Shirley. It began when Prince Leonard forgot to buy a crop selling permit for his land & the Australian government therefore refused to let him sell what he had grown. He responded by telling the government that if he couldn't ...

Today is Good Friday, so I have the fish all ready to cook for tea (well actually it's Alisons turn, so she is cooking the barramundi for tea tonight). Its a beautiful warm day in Perth (about 32) we are just spending the last few days here over Easter, then we finally head north up the West Coast. Geoffrey has itchy feet, ready to move on. On ...

... closer to the gravity discovery centre and the observatory that we were keen to visit. We left Moore River at lunchtime in search of the other park. Willowbrook Farm and Tearooms was our destination, not that we knew it at the time. It looked lovely from the road, the prospect of the Devonshire tea with scones was enough to tempt us to stay. We met the caretaker in the office and requested a powered site for the night, we signed the guest ...

... river (about two hours)! It as a fabulous setting and the big mystery to Barb and me was why the place wasn't packed. Two other parties occupied riverside tables but, apart from a bit of a party further up the river (freshmen from the university was the consensus opinion), we virtually had the place to ourselves. If we had been in the UK, with weather and a view like that we would have had to fight for a place but I guess the small population and the ...