October 9 to 22, 2013
Around lunchtime on October 9th we reached the northern suburbs or Perth.
Our first stop en route to Fremantle was in Scarborough. Back in 1996 we lived there for a some months for Stephen’s work. We had lunch at ‘Zanders / the Sandbar’ we used to frequent often while there. the memories of it where better than the real thing today.
In the afternoon of the 9th we arrived at Louisa and Besim’s in Fremantle, where we have been since. It has been fantastic catching up: re-connecting with Louisa and getting to know Besim (and the kids). Lovely being in Fremantle. Walks, memory lane drive around Perth, coffee, wine, old friends, new friends, art (we are bought our 2nd piece of Aboriginal Art at Japingka Art Gallery), lunch, dinner, movie,…. very civilized.
We have met some lovely people and caught up with people from the London and Sydney years. Also very nice to be in a city again for a while (I’m still a city girl at heart).
This last week we spent 3 days / 2 nights touring around the Margaret River wine region. On the menu: Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, Vasse Felix and Evans & Tate Wineries, Simmo’s, Gloucester Tree, Canal Rocks and a number of art galleries. We stayed 2 nights at The Bridgefield Guest House in the township of Margaret River.
Meanwhile getting our car to Indonesia is proving a tad more challenging than expected, albeit not impossible according to some emails we got in the last few days. We have however decided not to chance it and will ship Sterlin to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia while we go ‘back packing’ in Bali and surrounds for 3-ish weeks. We will then go and meet Sterlin in KL and take it from there. So Sterlin gets dropped off at the Port in Fremantle on Monday, Oct 21 and we fly to Denpasar on Wednesday (most likely).
