Up North

So life in Perth is rather slow, but really relaxing. Anni has just finished her exams for the semester so Anni, myself, and four other crazy friends travelled the five hours north from Perth to Geraldton, a city of just under 40,000 people and where another one her friend lives.  

On the way up to Geraldton we stopped off at some pretty amazing locations...

Lancelin - Sandboarding anyone?

Woo! Um, hope I don't crash!

The Pinnacles - eerily quite and weird but spectacular...

The park ranger said "no touching" but surely he didn't mean I couldn't sleep on it?

At one point Anni and Kara were sitting in the boot of Anni's car as the other friends drove it round and the view was amazing. 

From Geraldton we travelled even further north to Kalbarri, and walked around the Kalbarri National Park (well, we drove into a large proportion of it and then got out and walked). For being in winter it was rather warm and Anni almost got sunburnt with the endless blue skies.

This is Nature's Window

The Australian bushland is kinda weird looking and unfortunately we saw no Kangaroos. 

The next trip is home to Melbourne for Anni's Oma's 70th Birthday. Hopefully we can go see a footy game at the MCG, Collingwood is playing!

Anzac Day in Perth

Whilst the east coast of Australia is all cold and gloomy, Perth is still glorious and sunny. Today it was 28C with incredible blue skies. So why not have a picnic in Kings Park!

If Anni wasn't working, we would have gone to the dawn service, but it just wasn't feasible with public transport and getting to work on time. But we still went to the State War Memorial to pay our respects, being so thankful for all that the servicemen and women have given up for our country.

The view from Kings Park never disappoints, so here's another photo:

Happy Australia Day!

Australia Day is celebrated on the 26th of January, and to celebrate, Anni and I with her housemates Laura and James and her school friend Annette went down to Cottesloe Beach (only 5 mins from our new home in Perth!) to join in the fun of the Havaianas Thong Challenge.

P.S A "Thong" (normally "thongs" as they come in a pair) are what you may call flip flops, jandals, or sandals.

Movies

On Friday, Anni and I, along with her housemates James and Laura went to see "New Years Eve" at the Moonlight Cinemas. It's been really hot in Perth this week, and so being outside once it had cooled down, drinking champagne and eating crisps was exactly what a Friday night called for.

Perth

Hola Amigos!

Sorry about the lack of postings, there are no excuses other than laziness and lack of excitement (sad but true).

But welcome to Perth, Western Australia, where Anni and I now live!

It's hot and sunny and lovely, we live near the beach, and have great housemates. Anni is studying full-time at UWA (doing her Masters in Infectious Diseases... how cool?!), so our adventures have been rather quiet, but there are plans in the pipeworks, and so despite our lack of posts in the past, we promise to go out and explore Perth, the rest of Western Australia, and if miracles happen, the world!

it's almost time

Anni and I have been relaxing, just sitting around doing nothing much, except... PACKING! That's right, the big move west starts on Wednesday! Hazaah! Finally, I get to go see stuff!

Only problem is, every time Anni starts packing, the cat tries to help out too...

Haha, how cute is that?

Newcastle and Northern Beaches photos

Anni forgot to upload the pics from our trip! duh!

So here are some photos from our lovely trip up north. There's one of me at Nelson's bay, one of me at Newcastle beach atop Anni's sandcastle, and one at the "Summer Bay" Beach (Palm Beach).

Newcastle and Northern Beaches

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Newcastle is the second most populated area in the state of New South Wales.

And that's where Anni and I found myself during the last school holidays, visiting Tash, a friend from Melbourne who has relocated up to the port-side city and loves it.

The weather was fantastic whilst we were there, sunny blue skies, warm enough to sunbake in the middle of the day, cool breeze coming up of the ocean. The cafes are fantastic there also, lots of yummy soy lattes were consumed. And a sandcastle was built, in which I was the king of.

The reason for the trip was to attend a wedding down in Sydney for Beemo, so we flew up to Newcastle and stayed with Tash for a few days, and then caught the train down to Sydney to stay with Rach on the Northern Beaches, and then we went to Beemo's wedding next to the Harbour Bridge.

The Northern Beaches of Sydney are like nothing you've ever seen before. It's like it's own little place away from the world, and yet only twenty minutes drive from the city. And the Northern Beaches is where "Home and Away" is filmed! Rach took us there, and I got to have my picture taken on the famous beach, and I even put my feet in the water!

After the wedding, some more yummy cafe food and some beautiful beachside scenery, it was back up to Newcastle for some amazing fish and chips and a ridiculously early flight back to Melbourne.

If you ever come to Australia but you're short on time and you want to see something other than Sydney, we definitely recommend Newcastle. Two hours on the train from Sydney, it's amazingly beautiful, old but upcoming, and the weather is amazing.

Only 8 weeks left until the big road trip to Perth!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! Anni and I have had a luxurious two weeks school holidays which has included a day of wine tastings and a trip to the beachside. We've just returned home for Easter so Anni can start back at work in a few days. Then it's only twelve weeks until the "Big Road Trip" with Debdeb. Very exciting times!