Hans Memling Hotel Perth

... then read the riot act and informed I should face legal action...

After a while they let me go and warn me that it must not happen again and to be extra careful in countries like Indonesia!! Whatever...I didn't even show my passport once when flying around there!! Developed countries have so many rules and regulations and do they really make that much of a difference...??

So yeah that was my start to Perth life...

Perth, Western Australia, Australia followingmyfeet

Visite de Perth city, beach & Kings Park un des plus grands park urbain au monde avec son jardin botanique rempli de fleurs de WA, decouverte de Fremantle (le port de Perth) et des plages de Perth où on a ete acceuilli par des baleines...
ça commence bien d'autant que Maxence, un patissier français super cool y vivant depuis plusieurs années, nous a fait le guide.

... the rain was provided in the fishing boat harbour, courtesy of the Little Creatures micro-brewery – at last decent, extremely tasty, beer – both the Roger's Amber and Bright Ale. Moving on to the vicinity of the Round Tower, we arrived just in time for the firing of the One O’Clock Gun, Fremantle version. Suitably deafened, we decided to go to see HMAS Ovens submarine, in dry ...

... so details escape me. I remember there being 3 men in their 60s/70s in Connections and everyone else spending the night on the roof. Patrice introduced me to the best pizza in Perth. I met a lovely Japanese girl called Mika who knew Patrice (who had left about 2 minutes after paying to get in there!) and somehow managed to have about a half hour long conversation with her about fashion. God only knows what I was saying. Seeing as Tristan had been abandoned I had earlier offered ...

Hello Home again - Friday 10th July Our short trip away has flown by. The weather has not been the best but I think it has still been a lot better than Perth. It hasn't been cold but quite wet. We left Carnarvon and went 70 kms out to the blowholes at Quobba Pt. We have been there before and it is a lovely spot. There were about 80 caravans there with a volunteer caretaker to collect the money ($5.50 nt). We set up camp with a nice fire pit set up between Janet & Brian's and our ...

... as a bobtail lizard on our cycle around the island.  The only problem was that the time just flew by and before we knew it it was time to get the bikes back and get the ferry back to Perth.  Perth is a really cute city and its easy to walk around the central district so I spent a day exploring by foot and visited the Perth Mint.  WA is quite famous for its mining industry and has Australia's largest gold mine at Kalgoorie. At the Mint they gave a demo of melting gold ...

... feels like you're stepping into a different world! I've also been to Fremantle which is a town thats not very far away but they have really great markets there where you can get cheap fruits and veggies among other things. Also if you go at a good time all of the vendors, I think many of them are local, will lower the prices of everything in order to get rid of it all before the end of the day. I'd go all the time if I didn't have to haul it all back on the ...

I lived 20 minutes outside the beautiful city center. When I first moved to Australia I was shocked by the cold (I arrived in September) and then I was surprised at how different things looked - trees, animals, dessert... I am not sure what I thought it would be like. I fell in love with it though and it was home for a number of years.

... mining tour of WA was Newman. For those of you who don't know where this is, Google Maps is your best friend right about now. Contrary to popular belief Newman is not right in the middle of WA, but 560km south-east of Karratha. It's also 1180km north-east of Perth deep in the iron ore Pilbara region. Mt Whaleback is the biggest iron ore mine in the southern hemisphere and the photos I took don't do this place justice. I went for two ...

... whip and his topic bar!!(also almost causing a crash on the way home trying to eat his minstrels!) Another great thing we did with Ray was meeting all of his friends, who kindly invited us to lunch most days! A really diverse group of people from a couple who made the most exquisite wedding cakes to another who owned a chain of fashion shops and yet another who were house-sitting a mansion! What they all had in common was that they were all so welcoming and really ...