Our last day in Perth was probably one of my favourite of the trip so far. We started by taking our box from yesterday for another walk but this time full of souvenirs. We arrived at the post office to find it was shut, much like the Australian close at 5 rule it appears opening on weekends is a problem too. So we were left with no other option than to walk our souvinier filled box back in hope we had time after the train to post it. After our town walk in the ...

The morning consisted of washing most of our clothes, the joys of packing light! Once everything was hung out to dry we headed out to catch the train to Fremantle. Fremantle is a small town with a fishing harbor. So on arrival we headed straight to the harbor for some lunch at one of the many seafood places. Ant ordered breaded fresh prawns while I ordered muscles and 'fresh bread' (stale sandwich roll). Despite the bread both meals were good and there was the ad...

Sleeping in a hostel for the first time was an interesting experience, something which I would rank next to sleeping at a minimum security prison. The rooms lacked a certain friendlyness and the inmates were "interesting". However, it was fairly warm and clean therefore we treated it like the weird family member we all have and ignored its odd ways. Our first full day in Perth had us having a relaxing start to the morning after a horrible flight the previous day....

After being delayed for over an hour we were on our way to Perth! We both managed to get some sleep on the flight but sleeping upright will never be comfortable! Once we arrived in Perth we collected our luggage, minus 1 strap for the outside bag. We found we needed to take 3 buses to reach our hostel, the driver from the airport was very helpful and we met a fellow backpacker from Canada called Brittany, heading in the same direction. As the three of us chatted ...