Great Eastern Hotel Perth

... literally fly by! On arrival in Perth just before 9.30pm we grabbed a taxi from the airport to the Formula One hotel on the Great Eastern Highway. We had to use the rather clever night check in facilities. This involved us punching in a password at ...

... when a couple of those balls of cowboy film grass blew across the road as we left the Goldtown behind and took the Eastern Highway to Perth. The hours and miles disappeared in a red dust cloud along with towns like Ghooli, Bruce Rock, Burracoppin and ...

... airport to catch a 9.00 flight to Perth. Our taxi driver was a really nice young guy who said that he was originally of middle-eastern stock but he had been born and raised in Sweden. He said that he had decided to come to Brisbane to do his degree, ...

... was up to the challenge of Perth. She plans to be here for about 3 months before heading to the Eastern States. In the mean time I'm sure she'll have a great time in Perth, and enjoy some nights out with the gang here. We started with a couple of drinks ...

... to Kalgoorlie pipeline are on display in park land in the town.   The Meckering Camera Museum is situated along the Great Eastern Highway inside the 'Big Camera'.   It has displays of items which includes cameras, movie cameras, enlargers, ...

... ll definitely return to on a future visit. The following day I made it to Fort William and got a look at the imposing Great Highlands Hotel high above Loch Linnhe.  It’s an establishment which I am sure must boast a pleasant pub but it looked a ...

... I haven't seen in more than twenty years. I'm staying with my cousin Jonathan (Jonno) who lives in Maylands, one of the eastern suburbs. He's an architect and designed and built his own house. It's a beautiful, uber-trendy house filled with cool ...

... else in the air - they are much, much stronger than that. To give an example: On April 6th, 1993, a China Eastern Airlines flight from Bejing to Los Angeles suffered an inadvertent deployment of the wing slats, which are the plates that ...

... and a few more of the Sunshine Coasts amazing beach resorts, and then it was back on the road, journeying North up Australia's eastern coast. We broke up the journey by stopping for a couple of hours to browse the market stalls in Eumundi, and then ...

... 8230;I’m my own worst enemy sometimes, lol. Met roommate Janice in arvo, we hit it off straight away which is great…she’s an Aussie from Perth but has been working in Canada for last 9 months, she’s 25. At 6pm we went downstairs to ...

... are both in the middle of Australia.  They are approximately 1500 km from anything.  Most of Australians live on the Eastern Coast and other coastal regions and this is because a vast amount of the centre of Australia is desert.  Another ...

... catch up again after all these years. We walked to where her car was parked and she took us for a trip around the eastern suburbs where she lives. First stop was Centenary Park, a large area where families gather for picnics and the fitness fanatics ...

... Kalgoorlie's problem with having no water was solved by a controversial idea of piping the water from Perth - a distance of 540km. This pipeline follows the Great Eastern Highway for almost all of its length. After many years of having his plans strifled ...

... my notes, I recall that there was no YHA in Eden but apparently there was affordable accomodation at a place called the "Great Southern Hotel", which was itself a legend landmark in the history of the old whaling town of Eden located on the far south ...

... numerous hawkers trying to sell cheap rip off rolex's among other things. I had a couple of hours to wait back at the hotel before my flight to Perth just after midnight, but I was glad I'd put in the effort to visit the city.  It was pretty much ...

... 's close by. The road ran only a few hundred metres from the coastline running along the bottom of S.Australia - called the Great Australian Bight. There were a few lookouts, and approaching them it just looked like a coastal view with cliffs, but as you ...

... the reception because it would've been quite a trek on foot. Villa Lilleborg hosted the reception in its great location, on one of the islands on the eastern side of Oslo Fjord. The villa itself is a 3 story wooden building with a nice garden ...

... joking Brandon) towards the Murray River region skirting Adelaide via the town of Hahndorf before heading east along the South Eastern Freeway to Murray Bridge and onwards to Loxton along eerily quiet roads with dusk fast approaching with the threat of ...