Round the world in a Year!

Sorry for the delay guys, it took us a while to get over the train journey from Darwin to Perth and yes we have been very lazy since our long awaited arrival here in WA. 

Although I have to admit it has been worth the wait, Perth is a beautiful city with its first rate ocean beeches, the people are known to be friendlier than their east coast rivals,    The night life is vibrant with lots of top class food and wine, lots of cultural events and more days of sunshine than any other capital city in the country.

We hopped along to Fremantle which is a 1 hour ferry ride from the city, its a popular place for young people and backpackers.  There you can enjoy the ‘Cappuchino Strip’  where there are rows and rows of cute little tea and coffee shops at nice ‘Rip off’ prices (not really backpacker friendly) and clothes boutiques at not steep prices but b***** vertical i might add!

Oh yes i remember now why its popular with backpackers, there’s Bars, bars, bars and bars and if you get fed up of alcohol, theres always the coffee shops.

Saturday we went swimming with dolphins which was well and truley awesome,  we went to Rockingham which is about 50 k outside Perth, there we got on a boat and climbed into our wetsuits and snorkel gear.  Each Guide had a motorised scooter which dragged them around and everyone would form a big chain which we would do by holding onto the person infront of us so there was no real swimming involved.  We saw lots of  dolphins in their family groups and they were very playful whilst we were around.  It was an overwelming experience and one we’ll never forget.

Its a beautiful hot spring day and we are preparing to head off to Melbourne tonight where we have been told the weather is a bit like London but not as cold!  Yikes!  bring back me coat!

Toodle-oo for now

And in the words of Jerry Springer ‘Take care of yourself and each other’.

Hello World, we have returned!

It feels like an eternity since we were in civilisation and we really noticed it as we entered Darwin yesterday morning. After 7 weeks at Adelaide River Inn, we are exhausted but glad to be travelling again. Although our time at the Inn was very enjoyable, even though we didn’t like some of the jobs we did, we met some great people and really felt part of the comunity. We felt priviliged that we were accepted into the town from the day we arrived.

Chez worked in both the Bar and the BP shop, getting to grips with frying all manner of unhealthy foods and sampling them herself… especially on hungover days! Nick also worked in the BP shop, though for the last month he was tied to the 4.30 am till 2pm shift, and was left feeling very tired practically all of the time.

We’re both glad not to have to fry anymore Barra and Chips for a while and plan to get some more healthy food from now on.

We met some amazing charactors including the permanantly drunk Seagull, John the Vietnam vet, Jenny and Mort, who became more like parents as the weeks wore on… and Justin, who at first seemed a little strange, but soon became part of the gang. And Johns friend Andy who returned to Melboune to work and who we are going to see when we travel back down to the south…. not to forget Charlie the stuffed buffalo, who Chez had the pleasure of dusting down when the bar wasn’t busy.

Hopefully we’ll update with some pictures of the guys in future posts.

We catch the train to Adelaide on the 2nd of November and arrive there 2 days later, we spend two days in Adelaide before we catch the train to Perth, arriving there another two days later!! Which will bring us to the 8th of November

Thats all for now, will update again in Perth

Chez and Nik