Miss Maud Swedish Perth

Perth Day 2
Sunday, 16th August

Off to Fremantle on the Transperth rail, a pleasant, straightforward journey of some half-an-hour. As it was the weekend, the Family ticket was the best option, even though we were only two, giving unlimited travel on both trains and buses for the whole day. The weather forecast was not that clever, and unlike at home, turned out to be accurate, as the rain soon materialised. A walk to the harbour took us past many interesting Notre Dame University b...

Perth Day 3
Monday, 17th August

A long day in store, as we were to embark on a whole-day tour, booked prior to leaving England. Arriving at the pick-up point around the corner from the hotel, again in pouring rain, we boarded the large 4WD vehicle, which looked inconspicuously out of place on the city street. Once the vociferous Italian member of the party, and his clan, had finally got seated, we were able to set off. Leaving the suburbs of the city, it was not long before we were ...

Perth Day 4

Tuesday, 18th August

And so to the final day of trip, prior to the flights home. A visit to the Aquarium of Western Australia out at Hillary's Harbour, and once more public tranport the preferred travel option.


The aquarium gave a great opportunity to view the great variety of marine life living along the extensive coast-line of Western Australia, and was broadly divided into geographical sectors, north to south. This, once again, gave an indication of th...

We moved into Miss Maud's Swedish Hotel this morning. We were too early to check into the room so we left our bags in storage and went out to find some lunch. We ate at Durty Nelly's Irish Pub which had a special lunch with a glass of wine thrown in. Yoong's fettucini was particularly good. We moved into our room just in time to have a visitor, Madeleine, who we had known in Brunei. She is now settled in Perth with a new husband, Ross, who is a jazz musician. We had tea in our room, as it was...

Breakfast at Miss Maud's was a good as we had expected. Our tourist destination for today was the Perth Mint, where we saw a gold-pouring demonstration, different types of gold bars and replicas of various nuggets found in WA and other parts of Australia. We decided against having any lunch in between a smorgasbord breakfast and a smorgasbord dinner, which we had booked quite early at 6:30. The dinner was pretty similar to the lunch we had had there with the addition of some rather dubious oy...