Perth (and then Sydney again, briefly) - 28th October After getting a lift to the train station with Rick at 3.30am, a train at 4am, a second train at 5am, and arriving at the airport just after half past five, we are hungry enough to eat a Harry's Cafe De Wheels tiger pie while we wait for our Virgin Blue flight.Luckily, there's a concession in the airport, so we eat just that... Arriving in Perth, we are lucky enough to catch a cab with the grumpiest taxi dr...

Perth 2nd March 2008 - Right Now! I have never taken a 4 hour flight before that hasn't been across at least one large portion of water.That said, there might as well have been sea underneath as there are probably as many people working on water as there was for most of the bits of Australia that we flew over. It was probably the first time that either of us began to understand the scale of the country and how little civilisation there was after you have left ...