Today we packed a picnic and then set off to Fremantle for the day. Fremantle is where a lot of immigrants came into Perth on boats, this included Bob and April who arrived in 1971 on the £10 emigration scheme that was advertised in the UK for people to move to Australia for just £10. We asked him why he choose Australia and he said because of the sun – we are not sure what he means after our last few days here! Click here to read more
Category: Travel (Page 5 of 6)
The morning started with another swim and after we saw our lovely reception lady and asked her the best way to get into the city centre, and she said car, so off we set. About a 15 minute drive, first to a play area at Langley Park, by the water which we remembered from our last visit as the stage for Matthew who spontaneously created some impressive dialogue and video when he was 3. The play park is on a lovely green field that is used for lots of different events, this week the circus is in town. Click here to read more
Our final morning in our budget accommodation in Perth, and we all had to be up early to pack ready to fill the bus. This is the part that we all hate, packing bags is never easy and for some reason, our stuff never fits back into where it came out from! Everyone helped and we left with 10 minutes to spare, so we used our time wisely and had one final play in the play park over the road from the accommodation, which we will defiantly miss. We wondered what Dad had booked for our final 3 days in Perth? He said he had a surprise for us. Click here to read more
On our final day in the North of Perth and the sun was out again so we planned a tour of 3 coastal locations by driving up the signposted “tourist route” which is 22km of road winding up the coastline. Click here to read more
Our destination today was the lovely Kings Park, a National Park up on the hilltop looking down over the city of Perth. Click here to read more
6 years ago when we were here (before Alexander was born) we had stayed in Perth and had met up with our Grans, partners brother, and wife. Today we went for brunch and a catch up. Dad always says although the world is a large place, he loves the fact that we are able to see people we have met before almost wherever we go. Lovely food, drink and chat, we even borrowed some DVDs as it gets dark in Perth at 6 pm each day so it’ll give us some things to watch while Mum and Dad worked in the evening. Click here to read more
Today we set off to find some more wild Kangaroos so we went exploring at Yanchep national park. A beautiful large park with flowers, trees, water, caves, tea rooms, and a high wire experience. Entrance fee per car for up to 8 people of $15.00. Click here to read more
Another lazy morning as we went to bed later last night and once the washing was done the sun was out so we packed up and off we went. Mum and Dad have told us many times about barbequing in the local parks which we have seen loads of. Today we set out to find the place we stayed in back in 2015 when we first came here, we failed to find it first of all and then drove past park after park which didn’t have BBQ’s much to Mum and Dad’s dismay. Click here to read more
Adam and Dad awoke first, after laying in, and disappeared out to get some breakfast for us all and some essentials for our week in this property. We were all cold when we got up as it was only 15 degrees and there is no heating in the property except an aircon unit in the lounge that also blows out warm air. A bit like we don’t have Aircon in the UK for when we have 35 degree heat waves like the UK is having currently! Click here to read more
The plane journey from Dubai to Perth was just over 10 hours, as it was overnight (at least at the time we left) everyone got some sleep. Although Matthew stayed up watching movies until a couple of hours before we landed. Click here to read more