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Destination guide to Perth
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| Family and kids |
| Lively nightlife |
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You won't want to come home Perth and the surrounding area is the most wonderful holiday destination. The best of beach and city is within easy reach. Perth city, although not large, is blessed with much to entertain and impress the visitor - looking for sophistication and simple pleasures. Freemantle, the coast and Rottnest Island must not be missed. Go and you won't want to come home!
A really enjoyable holiday What a brilliant place to go. Cheaper than going to the Channel Islands. The food was out of this world. The many attractions were great, and everywhere was so clean. Got a decent pint in all of the pubs, although that was a bit pricey, but at least it had taste and was not like the flat muck that you get in UK pubs. The service everywhere was of the highest order, only one place let us down on that. The weather was better than anything that you could find in the Med. A hire car is a must otherwise you don't get to see a lot of the country. They are quite cheap even from the big multinational companies. Petrol is about half the cost of the UK. My advice to anyone is to forget the UK and Med and just go to Australia and have a really enjoyable holiday experience.
Full of western promise From the Daily Mail It's 6am. I'm in Perth, Western Australia, and I'm furious. I've been woken in my respectable family hotel by wild laughter outside. Not, in fact, a dawn reveller but a laughing kookaburra shrieking in King's Park above the hotel, a vast tract of bush in the city. Perth is an isolated city, fronted by the Indian Ocean, its backyard is thousands of miles of empty outback and desert. Closer to some Asian cities than it is to Sydney, you wouldn't just drop in without a very good reason. But we had reason enough. We're talking about a city rich in colonial architecture that in the Eighties sprouted a glittering skyline of steel and glass towers, founded on fortunes from mining gold, silver, diamonds and opals. Half an hour away you can bush walk around sacred Aboriginal sites, or go tasting in the vineyards of the Swan Valley. It's the sunniest city in Oz, the friendliest and most laid back. Northbridge, Leederville and Fremantle vibrate with clubs and funky restaurants. It was 100°F when we went in March, but you don't feel it because a cooling sea breeze called The Fremantle Doctor blows in around noon. Forget helmets, the police here wear wide brimmed sun hats. Sipping cappucino at a pavement cafe in the shopping mecca of Hay Street Mall with my friend Sam Julius, a Polish musician who has lived there for 30 years, the street was bursting with action. Clowns, buskers and mime artists surrounded us. It was only when a punk with five spikes of magenta hair glued to his shaven head sat at the next table to us that I batted an eyelid. His friend was covered in spider tattoos. Italian and Greek voices sang out through the warm air, reminding me that Perth's 1.2 million people come from a myriad of places. 'I call Perth the free and easy city,' said Sam. 'The buses are free and the living is easy. The only time people go indoors is to fetch a beer. "Formal dress" means putting on your shirt.' ... more
Slow down and don't do too much Australia is enormous - don't try to pack in too much. It's a temptation when you've gone all that way, but you'll end up not enjoying anything because you'll be too tired. Don't expect to "do" cities like Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and certainly not Sydney in anything less than three days. It's also great to get a perspective on things by not flying everywhere, but slowing down and taking a train journey. We took a 32-hour trip from Brisbane to Cairns and it was brilliant to just chill out and enjoy the scenery - sleeping on the train was very relaxing - and I liked being woken up by the chirpy steward with my morning cuppa.
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