Welcome to Oz!
We arrived in Australia on 17th May and our 1st taste was of Sydney airport, as we were getting our connecting flight to Perth.
Lovely airport, 'nuff said.
We stayed just outside the city centre of Perth in the Chinese/Thai/Vietnamese district, which was a bit like being in heaven, with all the great food on offer in the restaurants and cheap supermarkets.
The first really striking thing here is the birds and we do not mean the Australian women!
Whereas in London the most exciting bird you'll see is a pigeon, here there are beautiful white and brilliantly coloured parrots that are as common as pigeons back home.
The city of Perth was alright, but the highlight of our stay in Western Australia (W.A.) was our 3 day jaunt to Margaret River and the Wine Tasting Tour.
We stayed in a fab B&B, right in the heart of all the vineyards, a perfect place to pick up our tour. Bushtucker wine tours collected us on their bus and took us out for the day. Our driver and guide was a chap called Sylvano, although Shivani insisted on calling him Sylvador - we still haven't got over her speech impediment!
At lunch we realised why it was called "Bushtucker Tours". We tried a variety of bush foods anti-pasta style, including Kangaroo and a couple of brave souls even had the raw Widgety Grub on offer.
Anyway, 4 vineyards, 1 cheese factory. 1 chocolate factory, 1 brewery, 32 wine tastings and 6 beer tastings later, the bus was very noisy. We blame the Irish group on the tour!
One day we saw a whole load of Kangaroos in the wild, so Andrew tried to sneak up to them to take a photo. We're not sure what gave Andrew away, either his pungent aftershave, or shiny bald head, but the roos made a run for it, so the photo's are from a distance.
As with all good things, they must come to an end, so we headed back to Perth and our Motel, who had kept our room for us. On our last day however, we had an unexpected brush with wildlife - a small mouse had found it's way into our room, just as we were due to check out, thank goodness!
That's it for today's entry. We are currently in Melbourne and it is a fantastic City, very different from Perth, but we'll tell you all about that next time.
2 comments:
Hi Guys. I wanted to write when you left and have only just got round to it. Firstly I just wanted to say how lovely it was to have you both here in NZ. Considering I had only met you briefly before Shivani, it felt like I had known you for ages, you are so lovely and I can't wait to see you again in the UK (and to have some hands on cooking lessons!). It was also so lovely to see how in love and happy you both are, marriage definitely suits you Andrew. Charlie now thinks that the spare room is yours and he keeps telling me 'That's Barney's bed Mummy'!!! I will admit that I haven't done the prawns yet but I have all the bits to do them and will be doing them very soon. I hope you are continuing to enjoy your travels, it will be great if we do get to see you in Sydney but if not then it will be the UK next year! Thanks for offering to get the book but as we are now going to Oz we will hopefully be able to get it. Take care, keep having fun and se you soon!! Love Clare xxxx
Hi guys,
Brings back so many memories for us.
Don't forget to do the neighbours tour and evening at the elephant and wheelbarrow pub in Melbourne. Sounds sad but trust me you won't regret it!
Say hello to skippy for us!
The Champ
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