Hey everyone, sorry to have taken this long to get this blog started. A mixture of my own laziness, having shit/no access to internet, and having too many better things to do than sit indoors by a computer. But today its raining and I dont know anyone here in Broome and cant be fucked to meet anyone seeing as i fly to the east coast (brisbane) tomorrow.
Well starting from the very beginning, I landed in perth at 2am on friday 23rd of jan after leaving london 2 days earlier. Got a taxi to Debs house and after soring out my bags and shit maybe got an hour of sleep before Deb drove me to margaret river, a small town in the very southwestern tip of australia. In case you dont know Debby was my nanny when I was younger and she now lives in Perth with her (nearly) 3 year old son Tao. She had a wedding to go to on the saturday in margaret river and was staying at her friend Hollys house who kindly let me stay as well. I spent my first day wandering around the nature trails in margaret river by myself and playing with my new camera. Then back at Hollys house I met her cousin Carly and her boyfriend Ray, both 22 and Kiwis who recently moved to Perth. They were staying at Hollys house for the weekend as well, cos it was australia day weekend. Basically a bank holiday weekend in which aussies try to drink as much as possible for 3 days in a row. Australia day is the day when we the british landed, so some indigenous people also call it invasion day. If you dont know the history its pretty shocking what the aussies have done to the aboriginals over the past 200 and something years! Anyways, first night i had some beers with ray and carly and fell asleep in an armchair with a beer in my hand.
Day 2 (saturday) was the day deb had the wedding so she very kindly had booked me on a winery and brewery tour. Margaret river makes the best wines in australia and it was a pretty fun day out getting pissed. Plus I got to meet Jodi and Christine on the tour, 2 aussie girls from perth who were also down in margs just for the weekend. After the tour I spent that evening back at their hostel where they took me to the beach and made me dinner, very nice of them! Was fucking knackered tho and passed out after dinner whilst watching a film in their hostel.
On sunday, ray and carly took me out for a fry up for breakfast and then straight to the beach. Its a hard life in australia... Fell asleep listening on the beach listening to my ipod tho and got a great tan line of my headphones which still hasnt quite gone. Then back to hollys house for a bbq and more beer with Deb and Tao, Holly and her husband Reese and their 2 young kids plus Ray and Carly. Another great day.
Day 4 was the actual date for australia day and I spent it with Deb and Tao, Hollys family and lots of other couples with young kids at this really beautiful beach in a place called Yallingup. Really nice to spend time with Deb and get to play with Tao in the sea, but also odd being around so many small children! Not used to being around so many kids!!! Anyways, that was the last day spent in margaret river and deb drove back to her house in perth that evening. A really nice start to my travels, nothing too hectic.
Hmmm there shud be photos with these posts but the computers are shit at this place as well. Will hopefully solve that soon!
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