After a couple of road trips and knowing that my father was coming over and we were going to travel from Perth to Darwin together I decided it was time to pimp up my van so it could be lived in. The first thing I needed to do was to build a propper bed for it. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for September, 2008
My new home/Van
Sep 18
Off to see the Dockers
Sep 17
You may have heard of a game they play over here that they call football. It’s kind of like Gaelic football, played on a cricket pitch with too many goalposts. It was one aspect of Aussie culture that had passed me by. I decided I had to rectify this. Myself and my workmate Lewis, who is also English and had never been to a game, went to watch the Fremantle Dockers whom we had decided would be our local team. Read the rest of this entry »
Where the gold grows
Sep 17
My third major road trip out of Perth was an escapade into Western Australia’s golden outback. To the mining town of Kalgoorlie and the richest square mile on earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Road Trips
Sep 13
Road Trip 1; Perth to the south coast (and southern ocean)
I have already explained that I was working as a solar heating system installer, most of the time this entailed luging 300 litre water tanks onto roofs, fitting them, plumming them in and the solar panels too, this is the reason I got a tan even in winter and also why I am now 10 and a half stone, Read the rest of this entry »
Normal Life in Freo
Sep 12
Ok this is the boring part where I go over what i did from March to September 2008 in Fremantle. Read the rest of this entry »