What a Rotto time!!! And here it is, the last Australian blog! How time flys when you're having fun. It doesn't really feel like it but our year in Oz is nearly up. We've got a couple more adventures to share and some of them even include visitors from Brum! Before we get on to our escapades on Rottnest with Smurf and Claire we have to mention our brush with some whales and even a celebrity!! A celebrity you say? Well he is kind of a celebrity; a famous sci...

Our Perth-days G'day, time really does fly when you're having fun! Over the last few months we've been busy touring Perth and celebrating our birthdays. Before we get on to what we got up to over both our birthday weekends we have to mention our trip to the football. Now this wasn't football as we know it, it was an Aussie rules game. Since the season started here it's all anyone goes on about. Perth has 2 big franchise teams, the Fremantle Dockers and the We...

Perth Part 3- The Guest from the West So this blog includes Melanie's mother Christine in an (unwanted and overlong) guest role. Only joking, it's a delight to have visitors. As we had a person to entertain for a few weeks we have been touring Perth and Western Oz like it's going out of fashion. Before we get on to our trips and visits we have some other news. We now have a next door neighbour. Luckily for us he is keeping in trend with everyone else on our b...

March-April From the theatrical sounding title of this instalment you can see that we have been busy. Most of our adventures this time around seem to include creatures, some extinct, some cuddly, but all vicious in their own little way. Sandwiched between our excursions came the annual shenanigans and merriment of St. Patricks day, complete with a dodgy parade and green coloured pints! So without further ado... Crabbing in Mandurah. During the last blog we...

10th January- 4th March- The Story so far.... So after travelling around the place for four months it was time to set up camp. We've been asked a few times "why Perth?" The answer is quite simple, it's beautiful and peaceful, there's plenty of work over here, and it's the birthplace of Rolf Harris for God's sake. Also Perth has the highest population of self made millionaires in the world, so you never know Rodney, this time next year.........we could be mil...