As you can see we now have a car, its a 3.8 litre Holden Commodore. Its a bit swish for us, we even have air-con! We are going to try to see a bit more of Perth now we have the car, public transport isn't very good here, the buses are not regular at all. Lou wants to go for a picnic at the beach or in a park so we will be doing that in the next couple of days. There are free barbeques in a lot of places so you just need to take your own food and you can cook it ...

Hello everyone Australia is having a heatwave at the moment it has been in the low 30's and is going to get hotter next week reaching 40!!! so in other words we are MELTING. It is too hot for me (Lucy) we have got burnt a few times and are applying suncream every few hours. Friday we went to Kings Park where we got beautiful views of the city center, and enjoyed a very slow walk round the park, stopping for water breaks every half an hour. This weekend we have t...

We have had a very busy week but are finally getting things sorted. We think we have found a car, a 3.8 litre Holden (Vauxhall) Commodore. Its done quite a few miles but these cars are the ones that can get over 400,000km on the clock and still do another trip around Oz. We moved from our original hostel yesterday to a more expensive one after a couple of Germans came back late one night and started getting a bit friendly with each other in our dorm. We have a po...

We arrived yesterday morning after about 29 hours of travelling door to door. We were knackered and couldn't get into our dorm room until the afternoon so we went for a walk into the city and then I tried to sleep in the TV room of the hostel, not nice. When we eventually got in we went to bed but our roomies (2 French guys whose names I have forgot but were something like Jean-Paul and Pierre) came into the room after about 5 minutes. They are ok though, we spok...