Today we managed to lie-in until 11am, which doesn't happen very often - we must have needed our sleep! We had a late breakfast and then headed to the State Library, where Tosh had told us the password so that we could log on to the wifi network set up for the conference! We checked facebook and our banking - it's good that we're heading to Asia tomorrow as our money is getting tight! We had a wander around a few shops including Perth's version of Home Bargains ...

Today Tosh was at his conference all day, so we had a lie-in then headed to the Western Australia museum, where we spent a few hours looking around. We were particularly interested in the exhibition on the Aboriginals, as we haven't really learnt a lot about their history and culture during our time here. It's a lot different from New Zealand, where we couldn't help put learn about the Maoris who are very much integrated into NZ culture. We were shocked to read a...

We had a lie-in this morning before I headed to the shopping centre over the road with Tosh so that he could download some stuff he needed for his conference using the free wifi. Back at the hostel, we had a late breakfast before heading to the beach for the afternoon. We caught the train to Cottesloe and walked up a hill towards the beach. On the way, we walked past some amazing houses - definitely a millionaires row! On the other side of the hill we got our fi...

We left Beatty Lodge this morning and headed into the city to the YHA where we are staying for 4 nights with Tosh who is arriving today for an Urban History conference. It was a big coincidence that we're in Perth the same time he is - we didn't change our plans to fit in or anything! We arrived at the hostel late morning and put our bags in the luggage room as we couldn't check-in until 1pm. We were just wondereing where Tosh was, as his flight was due in at 2a...

After 5 days in Western Australia, we decided we really should see some of Perth! We found a walking tour in our guidebook, so we decided to go for a wander around the city. The walk to the bus stop took us through some of the rough parts of town - lots of empty lots and abandoned building mixed in with offices and garages it seemed! We were catching the free CAT bus to town - Perth has 3 of these and Fremantle has another two. They're a fantastic way of getting ...