Pete in Perth
Apr. 2nd, 2006 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringA big thank you to Kalasue, who was so very generous with her time and petrol yesterday. She was the perfect guide, full of a background story to everything I saw.
And we saw quite a lot. The Art Gallery and cultural precinct - as an aside, I'm so very glad I got even a quick look at the collection, some really mouth-watering paintings ther, and the buildings themselves were just fantastic! - the city, the foreshore, Kings Park, including a mindblowing trip along their elevated walkway through the treetops, the gathering in the restaurant, and then a trip along the shore of the Indian Ocean to Fremantle.
I don't have time to do it all justice, but as I sat later that evening in a Perth park admiring some multicultural dancing displays and eating some delicious Jamaican Jerk Chicken, my heart (and tummy were full).
I released my submarine book at the slipway used by the Americans in WW2. An added bonus was that the slip was occupied by a submarine, albeit one slightly newer than the wartime vessels.
The YHA hostel was brand new and very comfortable. Recommended to all.
And the BookCrossers! Thank you all for coming out to meet me. Kalasue, Libertine101, Murrmurr and and American lady whose screen-name I didn't quite catch. We had some wonderful tucker in the Botanic Gardens restaurant, a bit of bookswapping, and the pleasure of each others' company.
For me, it's not the books, nor even the wonderful locations. It's the BookCrossers!
And we saw quite a lot. The Art Gallery and cultural precinct - as an aside, I'm so very glad I got even a quick look at the collection, some really mouth-watering paintings ther, and the buildings themselves were just fantastic! - the city, the foreshore, Kings Park, including a mindblowing trip along their elevated walkway through the treetops, the gathering in the restaurant, and then a trip along the shore of the Indian Ocean to Fremantle.
I don't have time to do it all justice, but as I sat later that evening in a Perth park admiring some multicultural dancing displays and eating some delicious Jamaican Jerk Chicken, my heart (and tummy were full).
I released my submarine book at the slipway used by the Americans in WW2. An added bonus was that the slip was occupied by a submarine, albeit one slightly newer than the wartime vessels.
The YHA hostel was brand new and very comfortable. Recommended to all.
And the BookCrossers! Thank you all for coming out to meet me. Kalasue, Libertine101, Murrmurr and and American lady whose screen-name I didn't quite catch. We had some wonderful tucker in the Botanic Gardens restaurant, a bit of bookswapping, and the pleasure of each others' company.
For me, it's not the books, nor even the wonderful locations. It's the BookCrossers!
