Just a quickie...

Today Rachel and I were walking around Kings Park in Perth, imagine the scene for a minute, blue skies, birds singing, temperature at 35 degrees plus, then, what's that? out of the corner of my eye I've seen something, something that when standing in a park I wouldn't expect, what could it be? it must be technology related somehow or I would just zone out, yes, I see it now, it's, it's it's a Google car! A google car taking pictures of the causeway, but wait, how could you spot that from all the way up here Ross?

I tell you, if any government agencies want me to spy on foreign countries, I think I could do it without leaving my bedroom, just put a new mobile phone or some innovative new technology in that country and my eyes will home in on it. Damn i'm observant!

So ladies and gents, here it is, the Google car, in Perth....



and just to prove it wasn't easy to spot, here was the view, un-zoomed....

So for everybody back home I should probably fill you in on what I'm up to over the next few months. We've been lucky enough to find a nice little apartment in East Perth (pictured above). Rachel has gotten herself a job and is raking in the money working as a receptionist at a printing firm. We're planning to spend Christmas here as we've decided to spend our money doing other things, not to mention that travel over crimbo is about 3x the price it normally is.

I'll quickly list our planned itinerary, this takes us up to getting back to the UK next March

1) At the start of February we'll be jetting off to Melbourne for a few nights.
2) From Melbourne we'll be zooming over to Auckland (New Zealand), from there we are planning on Camper-vanning or bussing around both islands for 2-3 weeks before ending up in Christchurch.
3) Christchurch -> Sydney
4) Sydney -> Singapore (just for a stopover) then Singapore -> Mumbai (yep India!)
5) From Mumbai we need to get to Delhi
6) In Delhi we'll be meeting up with a load of other people and a "guide" of sorts who'll be taking us all over the place for the next 3 weeks.
7) Hopefully we'll end up back in Delhi in one piece, from there we have to get a flight back to Mumbai again, then we fly Mumbai to Heathrow on the 22nd March.

..or something along those lines! I think we have about 8 different flights booked at the moment, which brings the total for this year to 13! My carbon footprint is bigger than yours :-p

As I mentioned we should be getting home about March 22nd or 23rd. Currently I have no plans for what to do when returning to the UK, I hope I wont be hanging about too long (just a few months), travelling is just too much fun and the UK really sucks.

So Rachel and I have given up with the whole house-sitting thing for a while, moving around so much is a bit of a pain now Rachel is working full time. After many hours of searching (mostly by Rachel) we've found this lovely apartment in East Perth (the posh part) about a 3 minute walk from Rachel's office.

We're sharing the place with 2 other guys, Adrian from Singapore and Alex from Ireland.

We had a load of people over for a BBQ at the weekend, it's good to be meeting new people again.



I shot this little video for you to all have a looksy at. It's not very good, I must try harder with these things!



and if you dislike moving pictures...

Apologies for not updating my blog in aaaaages but I'm too lazy.

We're in this house in Perth for about 4 weeks until the house owners come back. We have no idea what we are doing after this.

Front view:


Rear View:


You can check out all my 365 project photos over at http://365project.org/Scrivna

Ok so here are a few moments from our time in Adelaide...

We spent 2 months looking after Jill and Ians house, we were put in touch with them via Rachels family in Adelaide, we looked after their 2 cats Paws and Cass. After that we stayed with Linda (Rachel's relative) for a week or so.

Hector

Hector the Herron was a common sight in the back garden scrounging for cat food.

Port Noarlunga

This is where the river at the end of Jill and Ians garden joins the sea.

Fishing

This was my first ever fishing trip and the first fish I ever caught

Sasha

Sasha is Lindas dog, such a cutie!

Goodbyes

Time to say goodbye to everbody, went out for a nice Vietnamese meal. From me clockwise: Rachel, Linda, Dorris, Jill, Laura, Sally, Ian and Stephen.