Perth 2025

This morning, Nana and I set off into Fremantle to try to find breakfast for less than $34 a head. We wandered out via the hotel pool complex (though not in togs so we weren't able to enjoy the full experience!) The town around the hotel is quite funky and fun, with lots of interesting shops, and a large park opposite. We found the Ghetto Blaster cafe not far away, and ordered coffee, a granola bar and the largest Anzac biscuit the world has ever seen (breakfast for Mum for the whole weekend I think). It was a little hole-in-the-wall place with outside dining only, but lovely coffee and appealing food. And only $16.50 for both of us, so a good discount! There was another group there with a lovely guide dog named Sophie who came over to check if we were willing to share. After breakfast we continued to wander, marvelling at the interesting shops - hardly any major chain retailers, at least where we were. There seemed to be bookshops at every turn, a New Edition bookshop, a second ha...

Thursday 27 Feb Nana, Alyssa, Kat and I met at Jamaica Blue for lunch, just next door to the infamous Szimpla restaurant, of bagel fame, from our last visit. I somehow managed, on the literal walk from the Warehouse carpark to there, to tweak my calf somehow, which was of high entertainment value to Kat :) We had a quick lunch and then headed off to the International terminal. Even the drop-off point is still a bit of a walk but we arrived in plenty of time. The magical automated luggage-handling machines were not being particularly magical, with the queue at an absolute stand-still for about 30 minutes, then crawling after that. We could have walked our luggage to the plane and loaded it ourselves quicker. Luckily we were quite early because after our luggage was finally loaded, the queue that had built up behind us stretched halfway down the terminal. I had booked a wheelchair and, while standing in the queue in the sun for half an hour, I asked a lovely person about it. She duly del...