Here I Go Again

This is the Albany Highway ^ and nice it may look, soon gets a bit boring after about 100km and we were on it for 400. The road kill is different here, whereas back home you’ll get the odd hedgehog or maybe even a squirrel, down here its kangaroos, I was quite excited to see my first kangaroo I didn’t expect it to be a dead one, in fact I haven’t seen any live ones yet.

We reached Albany just before it was getting dark so by the time we got checked in to the hostel and moved our bags in the sun was going down and we had a look around. My first impressions of the town were good and were heightened after the pizza. We played some pool then back at the hostel for a bit then saw a listings sheet for the local cinema that was showing Transformers! This was a no-brainer so set off. The cinema didn’t look anything special, from the outside it looked like a fairly standard small town cinema and the foyer was only big enough for the sales desk thing, some sweet shelves and a small queue but the actual screen was actually quite big fair play so I was pleasantly surprised. Transformers is awesome by the way!

The Australians seem to like their films though, they’re very vocal when watching them, there were a lot of ‘yay’s and ‘boo’s at the appropriate parts which I found quite funny, back home people are usually quite quiet until there’s a funny bit worth laughing at.

We found this bar last night (Thurs 28/06) called Mustangs which is cool, it plays Fox sports on the projector and always has mountain biking videos playing on one of the TV screens. They were running a pool and table tennis competitions that night too, we joined the pool one which cost $5 and you get a free beer (which we actually worked out that it was cheaper to keep buying into the pool competition than to buy beers on their own - and you get a game of pool). Jonny was up first and did quite well against a guy called Ralph, he managed to get to the black but Ralph ended up getting it first. Then it was my go, I was playing a guy called Jerry. I lost, quite quickly actually, I started chatting to Jerry afterwards and he told me he knew he was going to win as soon as he saw the way I held the cue. He also told me that he’s been winning the pool competition there for 3 weeks and has won 491 competitions altogether… I should have know my chances were low when he pulled a nail file out of his pocket to smooth his cue tip before we started the game. Later on he pulled me aside and showed me a few things like how to hold the cue and a few other secrets I won’t share so that I can try and have some sort of advantage next time I play. We didn’t have time to join the table tennis one though which was a shame ‘coz I’m sure I could have won a few matches there after watching some of the other players, maybe next time. Jerry’s the guy in the read Coca Cola tshirt, and later on his hands and knees trying to break dance.

Well Its been a busy few days so havn’t had chance to blog and still havn’t really so thought I’d just do a little update with links to all pics from the last few days. Enjoy.

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Day 3

We were going to go out again last night but Jonny wanted a little 30 minute kip first and collapsed on his bed and told me to wake him up again in 30 minutes. I didn’t feel that tired so ok’d it. Then I sort of kinda fell asleep too and told him to wake me up in 30 minutes which I think he sort of groaned (agreed) to. The next thing we know is our dorm mates comming in at 11 saying ‘Hey what happened to your big night out?’ So we both looked at each other in confusion and needless to say we didn’t bother going out then. Apparently Jonny went to the kitchen for a bit and came back asking me if I wanted anything but didn’t get a response so decided to shout at me that there was a fire but I all I remember is him waving his arms about and yelling, and me trying to say ssshh, leave me alone, I was out of it. So because we had gone to bed at 20:30, I was awake at 5.00 so just stayed there for as long as I could trying to get back to sleep so I could get up at about 9.00. The girl who snores like a bore got up at about 6.00 for work, without a crash landing this time, then I went to the toilet out of boredness after which I did manage to fall back to sleep and then didn’t wake up till about 13:10!! Sleeping patterns are all over the place!!
Anyway so then we ready on the double and drove down to Fremantle for a gander, I’m used to driving now, its not very different to home thankfully. There wasn’t much to do there so just had some food then drove south a bit to find a beach which we did but by now it was getting dark so didn’t stay long.
Bigger plans for tomorrow though, we’re checking out of here and gonna drive down to Albany and stay there for a night then come back up past Perth onto the Pinnacles, then further up again to Geraldton then North west to Mt Magnet. Then we’ll come back down to Perth to give the car in and jump on the train to Melbourne.

Out.

So we’ve just spent the first night in Perth, It was a mostly sleepless night after the girl in the bunk above mine stopped falling out of it ha ha. We had all just settled down and fallen asleep then BANG - really loud so we asked if she was alright and she said yeh but you could tell she was in pain lol so then she’s fiddling about with somthing and she went round the top end of my bunk for some reason which is where my bags are so I was suss but it was just to plug her phone in. Then she climbs back up then what seemed like only minutes later she fell out again! Jonny told me today he saw her fall out the first time and had to bite his arm to stop himself from laughing. Then we had to put up with her snoring!

Then today we didn’t go out till about 13:00 coz Jonny decided to stay in bed till gone 12!! tut tut. So we went for a drive in what we discovered was completely the wrong direction for anything so brought the car back and walked to the city centre which we’ve also just discovered was the incredibly long way - It took us about 30 mins to walk there and actually find the main part of the city so had a look round and went to a book shop and found some maps. I had a self-service chinese which was nice, Jonny got a subway and then the power went off which was quite funny. We decided to try a different way back and found even better shops and nearly got run over by police on mountain bikes. It only took us 5 mins to get back! We got soaked too from the rain which made it feel a lot like home.

Out.

Me again. Im in Perth now so someone please pass that on to Mam so she doesn’t get worried! Which she probably has already. Im having a good time here in the future. We’re in the hostel and are in a four bed dorm, I had to wait for this one guy to go coz he was still using my bed when he shouldnt be here and some girl is still using my cuboard, apart from that the showers are good and we’ve got the car after spending 20 mins looking for it this morning at the airport. We just had a walk round Perth to see whats about and had a meal in this itallian(i think) place. Very nice. Im gonna sleep tonight though, time travel is weird. I am taking pictures but will have to find a creative way to get them up here somehow, im using one of the hostels computers at the mo and don’t think they let you connect cameras or whatever. I’ll let you know!

*Update*

21:08 here 14:20 your end.

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Hello! I’m in Singapore airport, we just landed and I found this Internet terminal thing and our flight has been delayed an hour so i’m taking advantage! I’s good the flights been delayed though because we were late taking off from heathrow so would have had to just run the length of this airport in 5 mins!!

Its really weird coz its 8.30am here 1.30am where you are and we took off at 1.30pm yesterday so where 7 hours ahead and the flight was 12 hours…. the mind boggles!!

Anywho, I’ll post again next time I find a connection to the interweb.

Out.

Yep, this video was filmed with my dv cam onto a sd card which i
stuck in my n800 and uploaded to youtube and the logged into my
blog where i am writing this with my finger. So there was no pc
involved on my part which bodes well for my trip :-D. Enjoy

The dv cam only records at 320×240 onto the sd cards which i was gutted about but actually its not that bad is it. The file sizes will be smaller too so quicker uploads

Testing writing post with finger on nokia n800