Emerald Perth

... the golf club with M&amp;D, Sandy went on to singing<br><br>Saturday<br>* Sandy sang at Freo Gaol <br>* Al / Deanna / Gary to Freo to meet Sandy<br>* Sue joined us<br>* Bought new crocs for Sandy / Deanna<br>* Crepe at Pierre's<br>* Gary / Sue / Nan / Bill walk around Lake Carine<br>* andy singing dinner with mask<br>* Sue / Gary snuck in to Sandy's dinner<br><br>More to come...GB

... travel by lilo. You won&#8217;t get them moving quickly unless a)they can&#8217;t find the bottle-opener or b) they sense someone in their vicinity may need help or assistance of some kind. I can&#8217;t emphasise enough that I owe a wonderful six months in Perth to the people I met who invited me into their lives and showed me all their city has to offer.<br><br>This is a travel blog and I want to get to the juicy on-the-road bit so let me cut ...

... I took Jamie for a bite to eat...watch out Kirsty!!ha ha!! We went to an Asian food court and it was so good to be eating thy olde noodles again. After lunch we had a look round the hostels in the centre of Northbridge which was interesting and then I headed back to the hostel to sleep.<br><br>I awoke to 2 missed calls from Glasgow Pete and a message too. I called him back and explained that I could start the next day if it was ...

... itinery then do logistics and apply for all the visas.<br>Ive got heaps of time to do this cos Im going 11th March 2010 return 1st May 2010, thats 7 1/2 weeks on the road so should give me enough time to do what I want to do.<br><br><br><br>18/11/09<br>Today I went to the Chinese Consulate in East Perth to apply for my visa. I expected to get chucked out cos I am over 3 months from my trip but I wanted to check I have everything I need to ...

... i felt and at which the city extrudes as well...i feel like i haven't been able to take it slow much so i really enjoyed not having a lot to do or anything for that matter and not feeling like im missing oot on anything. The one thing i did do, i saw free didgerdoo lessons on offer..so i gave it a go. Im rubbish as expected as with anything muscially related (except listening) but it nice to get a feel as peeps make it look so easy.<br><br>That's Perth...<br>

... with banners and balloons when we arrived, more that made up for not collecting us by taking a day off work to drive us on a guided tour of the Perth area. It happened to be one of Perth's stormiest days ever as there were trees blowing all over the roads and sporadic floods (a normal spring day in Ireland).<br>Actually, looking back now, that was probably our most productive day in the 9 months since we left home!<br>Anyway, bye bye expensive first world Australia.<br>

... bedding and dirty clothes accumulated over the last few days not in powered sites with ablutions facilities. Our first request of them was to eat decent Thai food, Greg and I were craving it. A red curry and pad thai was high on our priority list and we ate out Thursday night at a favourite Thai restaurant of Barry and Sara's. The food was great and we drank Moet celebrating Barry's coming finalisation of his sale of business ...

Om tirsdagen tog vi på udflugt med Dennis og Monique. Vi troede at vi skulle til The Maze, som er en kæmpe labyrint med dyr og kæmpe skak, men det viste sig at Dennis havde forstået at vi skulle i Perth Zoo, så der endte vi. Da jeg åbenbart ikke ligner en voksen, så kan jeg oftest komme ind på barnebillet og denne gang fik vi da også familiepris fordi jeg kun var 15... Vejret var rimelig dårligt og da vi lige havde købt billetterne begyndte der at styrtregne og vi skyndte ...

... the next 96km (this sign is often seen on postcards), another ushers you into "Australia's longest straightest road" and another exclaims "Half way across Australia", near a town called Kimba (again we were told that this isn't accurate either, but who cares). On the trip we did all sorts. We rode camels into the outback, learned to surf (badly), sand boarded, fished for squid (unsuccessfully) and gone animal spotting during the day and at ...