Archive for the ‘Perth, Australia’ Category

A new career direction?

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Well I have been working hard on my new internet empire - big announcement coming on that one next week - but in the meanwhile I need to get a part-time job to at least pay the rent. I saw a part-time job for a travel junior in a ...

Dance Scene in Perth

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Well the short answer is that you can do a social Rock&Roll, Swing Latin Ballroom, Swing New Vogue dance very weekend in Perth. We went to a local bowling club and in about 2 hours learnt the rockabilly, the El Paso, Shadow Salsa and a line dance waltz ...

Finding our way around Perth

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

53|320 We ventured south today to a suburb called Rockingham - clear water, beautiful beaches (a bit cool for swimming though), a oil refinery, a nickel smelter and an aluminum smelter, oh and a bulk grain terminal - weird. Doesn't seem to affect property prices though - over $600k for ...

Perth Impressions

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

57|250 59|250 55|250 Well despite colds for both of us we like Perth - the forecast at the start of the week was showers all week but we've only got wet once - it has rained but hard, and only for an hour or so and then the sun comes out. It ...

Setting up life

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

61|250 OK one of the dilemmas of the travelling life is whether you get an address or a job first. luckily thanks to the invention of credit cards and flexible mortgages we thought to start with the house situation because even staying at a youth hostel is not cheap compared ...

Perth - we arrived

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Hi all! Sorry still no photos - Paul has been hogging the laptop to update his CV so I haven't got it in for repair yet - soon I promise! Also I think I can plug in the MP3 player into the hostel's PC so maybe that will be ...