The West Coast here we come!

Trip Start Dec 20, 2004
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Trip End Sep 2005


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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Well our last two weeks we decided to spend on the west coast overe here in Perth. We decided that this time was really for us to prepare for leaving Australia and generally chilling out after the last 3 months of constant travelling, as well as seeing as much as our now very minute budget would allow!

Our first week we spent in Perth itself, a nice enough city but sometimes a bit ghost like. We had a look around the mint - very interesting to see both gold and silver ingots as well as hundreds of different commemorative coins, mostly of the chinese new years strangely enough! We spent some time just walking around Perth's parks and public gardens and enjoyed a coffee down on the river!

It was great to catch up with friends from around oz too, David and Merv who we met back on our first day in Sydney live in Perth so it was great to see them stood behind their market stall that we had heard so much about, and doing a roaring trade i might add! It was also great to catch up with Paula and John and Ollie and Lisa from Melbourne too, it almost g\felt like a mini reunion!

The next 5 days we spend down in Fremantle, some 25 minutes south of Perth. Here we hired a car and really enjoyed driving arond the countryside, especially the swan valley where we found a chocolate factory giving out huge free samples followed by a winery doing free samples of wine and cheese (we ate like kings without even touching the budget!). There are also some really fabulous coastal stops and public parks which we spent time enjoying. There is a street in Fremantle known as the cappucino strip so we made sure to have a coffee in a different cafe on the strip everyday!

Sadly then it was back to Perth for our last few days in Australia. Time enough for a lovely last supper with Paula and John, some last minute souvenir shopping and some reflection over our last 7 months in Australia. Neither of us can really believe we are at the end of this part of our trip. It has been such an amzing trip for us with so many highlights that I think we would both struggle to come up with a favourite. Keep your fingers crossed that we enjoy the rest of our trip as much as we have enjoyed oz!

Fairwell Australia - may we see your beautiful lands again some day!
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