Perth

I wont go into detail about the journey to Perth from Indonesia, I’m sure get the idea by now; travelling is not the fun part of travelling! Anyway we made it to Perth and more specifically to Ashleigh’s house, a girl we met in Vietnam on the bad day that ended with me in hospital. So firstly I have to say a massive thank you to her as she put up with me and Pete clogging up her flat for a whole week! 

We didn’t get up to much in Perth itself apart from discovering how bloody expensive Australia is at the moment! Over £6 for a beer and it’s not even a pint -  need I say more. I do have to say that despite this I did enjoy our time in the city. All along the central street there are really old buildings mixed with shiny new high rise blocks just like at the end of Batteries Not Included (that‘s a reference most people wont get). Apologies for the poor photos but they were digging up the road so I had to reach over a fence to take these.

The other attraction of the town centre was a park with statues of kangaroos outside the entrance. Of course this meant that we had to pose for pictures.

Apart from walking around town we visited the Perth city park; actually the biggest city park in the world - yeah I bet that fact blew your mind! The main part of the park that stuck in my mind was a tower called the DNA tower. If you are as big a nerd as me then you will notice that the tower shouldn’t be called that because it is not the shape of DNA. 

Now for a feature that my mum will really appreciate, they have these really exotic parrots all over the place on Australia!