New Esplanade Perth

When you gotta go...you gotta go<br><br>So I wake up this morning and think I have run the London Marathon. I am hot, sweaty and tired...infact knackered. I have just completed another of my life ambitions. Wow. Banda Aceh and the London Marathon all in one month!! Cool...um...what the ****?! Where am I?! Oh yeah I'm on the farm. Starting grab my attention back from the clinically insane period which comes over me every morning I start to realise where I am. It's 8am ...

... and centrally located, it was a good find (Christ i sound like a tour operator!!). I won't go on about cost anymore cause you'll be sick of it but one note - THIS AIN'T THAILAND ANYMORE!!!<br><br>The first day was spent tax numbers, sim cards and getting our bearings...then of course came the partying which ended up in the casino at 2am until 9am the following morning (Go me and Glenn), followed by a drunken ...

As many Broomies would know, after a hundred times the 2 1/2 hr flight down to Perth seems like nothing at all. The flight landed 20 minutes ahead of schedule and arrived early in the afternoon. We took our time while we made our way to catch the terminal transit bus to the international terminal. Before this trip I had never flown out of the ...

... Dongara where we stayed the night. We were lucky enough to strike their weekly 'happy hour' where they supply nibbles. There was a good crowd there - a lot of younger people as families like to go there for school holidays. We had a very stormy night with lots of rain. We continued on to a roadside stop not too far north of Perth at Coomallo. We shared a fire with a couple from Wangaratta doing a 6 month trip round Oz. The weather came good long enough for a pleasant evening ...

... me! Met Karla, Murf and Jill (obviously quizzed extensively by the bouncers about arriving into a busy pub at 1am on saturday morning with a massive backpack, I'd forgotten what asses Perth bouncers were!)<br><br>A sunday session at the OBH has already been organised, so after a boozy lunch in Freo, we headed to Cottesloe and met up with Matt, his girfriend Katie, Adam (who's birthday it was), Richie, Murf, Karla, Yobbo, and later on Peter (an ...

... a big roof over our heads. The walls were sprayed with concrete so it was safe in that regard. All in all it was an interesting experience. I was working with two fitters and ensured that they were safe as they worked inside a two storey crusher. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take photos with my camera phone as it can interfere with the explosives which are set off remotely. Probably a wise move not to test that one out. Major ...

... encountered alot of road trains once again as we haven't seen any since we left Esperance. We stopped in Gingin for coffee and a walkabout. Later we stopped along the roadside and had lunch. The scenery this afternoon went from vast farmland to scrub and then back to farmland. It is very desolate and dry out here. We then proceeded to Port Denison which is right on the water and the sand dunes are enormous. We stopped here for the night right on the Indian Ocean. This is a ...

... Sarah e Luke restano a Perth. La macchina e' pronta, io pure; do un ultimo sguardo alla casa, dolce casa di queste ultime settimane, ed un forte abbraccio ai due fantastici compagni di viaggio, che sono sicuro rivedro' un giorno da qualche altra parte del pianeta. Un forte senso di nostalgia mi prende mentre imbocco la South West highway; non e' tempo di guardare indietro, ma di riprendere la strada che davanti a me si spinge verso sud, e di scoprire cosa mi aspetto lungo quella strada.

... to Perth. We then headed into Perth city for a few drinks and dinner before returning home to ring everyone in England. 09/02/2008 Very chilled last day packing bags and sorting last few things out. Eli cooked a huge Paella for the farewell meal which wasn't bad! 10/02/2009 Up early and got a taxi to the airport for our flight out of Australia. Strange to be leaving after spending 5 months but we're both looking forward to a change...SE Asia here we come!