1 car 4 people 7 locations 10 cheeses 50 odd wines 800 chocolate drops All in a day's work! Deanna and Matt very kindly offered to show us the delectable delights of Perth's beautiful Swan Valley on Sunday. They picked us up and straight away we started discussing a proposed route... which wineries were best, which ones offered cheese, when should the compulsory chocolate factory visit be scheduled, how many could we visit before lunch??? Luckily Matt and Dea...

This morning we went to Mullaloo beach for a little while... well it really does seem rude not to when it's SUCH a gorgeous beach. We came back to Pam's and after a bit of lunch both crashed for a kip. I don't understand how we are so 'bushwhacked' at the moment but we are! This afternoon/evening we got the train into Perth to get some food from the Twilight (no not THAT twilight) Hawker Market. We wandered around a few of the shops which were open late on Fri...

I don't like snakes, those of you who know me or who have read my previous blogs will well know this. As did half the zoo keepers at Chester Zoo back in around 1994 when my parents took us for the day... but that's another story. This afternoon we walked near Joondalup Lake where there were lots of warning signs about snakes. We've seen lots of warning signs and are used to them now, but I was warned by a lady walking her dog to watch my step as I was wearing ...

Wednesday was my birthday and we had a really lovely day. Before breakfast Anna was very keen for me to open my presents, whilst I was still feeling rather sleepy. She'd got me a number of small things including extremely delicious passion fruit curd, which is ideal on toast. A couple of days previous we'd been going around the shops in Perth city centre and after lunch Anna had wanted some time to get birthday things. It tuned out she went back to all the sho...

Perth, so far... A relatively short post... The camper van was great fun but really tiring. On Friday evening, when we got back to Pam's we were both shattered and spent the evening doing very little, while enjoying having a sofa to sit on. We were up quite early on Saturday and got the van cleaned and returned to the depot, it was sorted very quickly and then we were off to Kings Park. This is a lovely park and botanic gardens on a small hill overlooking Sw...