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... many kids. A little girl came up, pulled me down a gave me a big kiss then asked for a photo. I obliged, she laughed at hersself in the photo and she moved onto E, J, R and L! She was very cute. Almost immediately afterwards we stopped at a local's house and gave banana beer a try. You have to first blow off the malt layer on the top before you get to the liquid... which really isn't too much better. Then we tried banana wine. It was in a store-bought bottle rather than a ...

... in it because there is no way anyone would give away a 5 dollar carton of milk. Don't get me wrong I always look for the best in people but this is dodgy, five seconds later I am sipping from the carton though.

Packing my bags, I head for where...I don't actually know where. Aywhere but here pretty much sums it up really. I walk along the road and turn the corner and I aint got a clue where I am. I squeeze through the fence into the park with my ...

... s house in the suburbs of Perth. Unfortunately on the first day he had to go to work, which left me in surburban hell. I eventually decided to bravely wander into the unknown and go to the shops for supplies, but after ten minutes walking outside I ended up at the mercy of the weather Gods when the heavens opened. Dressed in my entirely inappropriate Asian garb, I ended up crouched under a tree at the side of the road ...

... metres high, the biggest tree climb in the
world, which had pretty much no safety procedures at all. It was
free, there was no guide or harnesses - Alison stayed at the bottom
to keep watch. We then decided that because we drove all this way to
climb the Glouster tree we better do that one as well. After climbing
Perth, Western Australia, Australia kaylaandbryden

... and updated our travel stories from Argentina to Australia.
Our last day in Australia was very productive as we finally managed to send off our Insurance claim for the bag that was stolen last November - at this stage it included lots of additional passport fees so it was lucky we held off in sending it! We also sent home a package full of stuff to lighten our backpacks. Elyse, a girl from Perth we had met in Colombia who had promised to collect us from the ...

... skaller. Det er et sjovt fænomen; ikke bare ligger det midt i en hede og tæt ved vandet men det er klippespidser som bare stikker op overalt i jorden. Historien siges at det engang var et kæmpe bjergområde og at resterne nu er en form for kerne efter tusinder af års erodering og de eroderer stadig, så de forsvinder lige så langsomt. På hjemturen kørte vi forbi en bug, hvor der levede verdens ældste organismer - en bakterie som lignede sten i vandet. Senere kom vi ...

... modern and it was a lovely place to walk around and the car park was full of huge squawking parrots. After quenching our thirsts we made our way to AQWA the aquarium which was brilliant. We saw many beautiful things close up that you can't usually get closed to - like the Blue Ringed Octopus - which was tiny and seemingly inconspicous and not at all deadly-looking. There was a really good underwater tunnel where we saw sharks ...

... massive spreads of food and wine. But we couldn't find Lisa. So Paul and I took a chilled bottle of Sauvignon Blanc onto the beach and watched the golden sun sink slowly down in the cloudless sky for the last time of 2008. We couldn't have asked for a better sunset! Afterward, when we finally figured out they were at City Beach a few miles down the road, we jumped in the car and made our way down to find ...

... to the original place . . . But in a four bed dorm. It worked out OK though cos there was just a lovely Irish couple and another Irish guy that we then hung around with for a few days. We had our own Christmas tree and presents under it and the works!

I was delighted to meet up with my friend Roz from home. She has been here for a few months now and stays in a house with like a million Irish people who fight ...

... he told me that this wasn't the first time he has heard this. In fact, he also told me about a close Canadian friend of his who travelled all over Western Australia, and disliked the people in WA so much that he went home and told all his friends to never come here. (Other parts of Australia were OK, tho.) Wow! On the upside, I did meet some very nice people. The cops were the coolest lot. And, there were an aweful lot of awesome Taiwanese here (believe it, or not ...