At 15.09 local time I touch down in Perth. Quickly the shadow emerges from the luggage belt and its time for thee agricultural and bio hazard formalities. A quick chat about tea bags and my German Ampellman sweets from Berlin (the guy even recognizes what they are) and I'm in! After some hanging around I locate the shuttle bus to the domestic te...

Hi everyone from sunny Perth Arrived this evening after 10 hour flight, sun is shining, all is well in the world!! Just has a Barbie, no shrimp to throw...yet...looking forward to getting in the Aussie vibe tomorrow... Love to you all Wendy & Guy xxx

There are 65 types of substances mined in Australia including gems, metals and fossil fuels. I chose gold, iron ore and uranium for my research on mined resources of Australia. Gold was one of the first metals known to people. Gold can be easily shaped into coins and jewelery. Gold is useful in medicine. Gold has been found all over Australia. ...

Well what a blooming marvelous Christmas we have just had! I guess we haven't had the usual hectic run up to the main event since we are here on our own. Cards and pressie's were posted to family and friends back in England in November; we bought each other a few bits and have decided to spend the rest on sorting out the house. I know I've said ...

One of the joys in having this 'wing & a prayer' lifestyle is that anything can happen. Just as we had planned to surrender our Parklife tickets, grow old in Exmouth & live in a van 'sans gearbox' for the rest of our lives, the gods smiled down in sympathy. A girl from work, Em, offered us a lift as she was heading home to Perth, along w...

G'Day Everyone! We celebrated Elsie's birthday with a great dinner involving sparkling and red Australian wines. We began with a fantastic prawn salad, the main course included beef filet steak (beef tenderloin) and completed the meal with an Australian chocolate mud cake! If you love chocolate, you gotta try these mud cakes! The Aussie's have t...

Well, This is it - the last of the travel blogs now we've finally arrived in Perth. Had a great Qantas flight from Singapore and turned up in Perth at 2am to our pre-booked backpackers that was in darkness and locked up tighter than a nuns knickers! so with the prospect of sleeping on the street for our first night in our new homeland, we trudge...

Zoe calls to say that we can have the room. Yippee. For a month to start and we will see how it goes. That's great cause once work is sorted we plan to find our own house as we plan to be here for a while which I will tell you about later. We can move in tomorrow which is great as we can't afford another night at the Holiday Inn, I almost had a ...

Hello All................. Well, im sorry to say i have been very slack at keeping this website up to date. so this is a catch up again from the last few weeks or so......... Here goes.....We left Ko samui after a week or so doing nothing but eating, sunbathing and drinking! what a life hey!! We missed the full moon party in Ko Pan yang because ...

everyone, have been in perth for the past three days. am staying with mark, one of my oldest travel buddies, and his wife lara. perth is great, and while i stick to my not wanting to live in australia, i can see why people do. lara and i have been out shopping and driving around, and it's been nice and chilled here. am off to china tomorrow, via...