Anyway as we are leaving Perth in just under 6 weeks now I wanted to see if I could get this bad boy cranking again, particularly for the purpose of recording our 6 weeks travelling through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand before hitting the UK for (possibly) a couple of years. We have passports, we have visas, and we have half of our flights booked (with hopefully the rest sorted out this evening). We bail at the start of May and fly into London on June 15, probably just in time to contend with the rush hour tube-goers. It'll be a good test for us I'm sure...
So really the last few months in Perth has been a combination of enjoying the most of what we like about the place, namely for me our friends and the weather, with trying to get our savings back on track for SE Asia and setting ourselves up in England. We have both taken on extra work in the weekends - I've been supervising in bars at two of the local stadiums. That meant I worked the first AC/DC concert, which was madness, but as we went to watch the second on it was cool to get a double dose. We've seen a couple of other gigs recently, the highlight definitely being Lupe Fiasco at Metro City. Talib Kweli is here in mid-April, so I might have to make that my send off gig...
We have been back down south which was lovely, and our trip to the Gold Coast to see our mates from Wellington was awesome. I have been back to wonderful Wongan for a week of work, and actually managed to enjoy myself this time, largely because we hit the pub on St Patrick's day. Just now (literally in the last hour) we had the first proper rain since mid-November, and it cam in the form of a monster storm. It hit 32C here today, and yet we have just had golfball sized hail stones. There is debris everywhere, our substation was hit by lightening, the roads are flooded and because of all the windscreen detergent build up on the roads since November, they are also slippery and bubbly.
I'm going to sign off with a photo from our recent trip to Gracetown, but I hope to be back soon, and I look forward to getting some blogs in from Asia :)
