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Greenhouse – a restaurant with a conscience
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 23 March 2010
These days, we’re all looking for ways to make our lives greener. We aim to eat more WA-grown food, buy environmentally friendly products and reduce energy use. Well, we try anyways. A new Perth restaurant is doing more than merely trying. Greenhouse, located on St.
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10 things to do on a rainy day in Perth
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 22 March 2010
It certainly doesn’t rain much in Perth. Perhaps that’s why I like it so much, after spending most of my life in soggy Seattle. I must have timed my arrival to Perth perfectly because I’ve been living here 4 months and it’s rained twice. The entire summer has seen a total of .02mm of precipitation. [...]
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10 things to do on a rainy day in Perth
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 22 March 2010
Perth rainstorm. Photo by WA Today It certainly doesn’t rain much in Perth. Perhaps that’s why I like it so much, after spending most of my life in soggy Seattle. I must have timed my arrival to Perth perfectly because I’ve been living here 4 months and it’s rained twice.
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Daily Travel Photo – Western Australia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 22 March 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. [...]
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Perth graffiti – vandalism or art?
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 18 March 2010
Perth graffiti in an alleyway off Howard Street Typical Roman street. Photo by portadown Graffiti. The word evokes lots of mixed emotions. Some think it gives a city personality, while for others it’s defacement. According to Graffiti.org, there are three types of graffiti – vandalism, gang and art.
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Perth graffiti – vandalism or art?
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 18 March 2010
Graffiti. The word evokes lots of mixed emotions. Some think it gives a city personality, while for others it’s defacement. According to Graffiti.org, there are three types of graffiti – vandalism, gang and art. The first two are basically just a way for punks to show that their ugly scrawlings are much more important than a [...]
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A CBD gem – tiger, tiger coffee bar
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 17 March 2010
I’ll admit I’m not crazy about Perth’s CBD. Too many soulless skyscrapers and take-away joints. Not nearly enough memorable architecture, parks, street art or fountains. The CBD seems to be completely focused on work, not play.
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A CBD gem – tiger, tiger coffee bar
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 17 March 2010
I’ll admit I’m not crazy about Perth’s CBD. Too many soulless skyscrapers and take-away joints. Not nearly enough memorable architecture, parks, street art or fountains. The CBD seems to be completely focused on work, not play. Perhaps that explains why it empties to a ghost town after 6pm as commuters lock [...]
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Traffic in Perth? Ha!
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 16 March 2010
If you visited Fremantle last Sunday you would have been as astounded as me at the unfamiliar sight: lines of bumper-to-bumper cars, flooded footpaths and grouchy traffic controllers. The culprit: the coinciding of Araluen’s Fremantle Chilli Festival and the arrival of the 4,000-passenger Queen Mary 2, the biggest ocean liner in the world. While it was [...]
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This Small and Lonely Planet
Blog: Trail of Ants - 15 March 2010
Just when you're ready to give up. Just when life couldn't get any more miserable. A man turns up. And he's got bare feet. Discover the incredible tale, of the time two travellers got stuck in the mud in Australia's far southwest.
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399 – a community cocktail bar
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 9 March 2010
A Monday night at 399 One of the biggest gripes of Perthites is that the city has too few small bars. Like Sydney, the city is plagued with huge, impersonal pubs and bars, breeding drunken crowds, rubbish service and loud, conversation-killing music.
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The Blue Noose
Blog: Trail of Ants - 8 March 2010
Waking up to find a blue noose hanging beside your tent is not the best way to start your day. Discover more about what happened along our Australian road trip, in The Blue Noose.
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Perth’s creepiest and crawliest
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 8 March 2010
I consider myself a pretty gutsy girl: I love adrenaline sports, I’ve swum with reef sharks and hiked alone for 8 days around Mt Blanc. But I’m terrified of animals. I turn into a shaky, sobbing mess when confronted with anything slimy, furry, venomous and toothy.
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Top 5 beaches in Perth
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 3 March 2010
Who says you have to leave the city to find beach paradise? There are some amazing urban beaches in the world like Waikiki in Honolulu, Ipanema in Rio di Janiero and Sydney’s Bondi.
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Perth’s cheapest eats
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 23 February 2010
The Perth lifestyle – full of sun, sand and sport – may be great, but living here is expensive. According to the 2009 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Perth is the 57th most expensive city in the world to live in. Perth Now reports that it costs more to [...]
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Hiking Margaret River – the Cape to Cape Track
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 19 February 2010
Margaret River, located just a 3-hour drive south of Perth, is world famous for its premium wine, waves and walking. The best way to experience Margaret River, I figure, is to combine the three by walking the Cape to Cape Track. This 135km trail shows off the southwest’s best natural beauty: rugged coastline, pristine beaches, [...]
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Bilby’s Burgers – a Perth institution
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 17 February 2010
Perth loves a good hamburger, and from what I can tell, hamburgers have to meet certain criteria to gain this fair city’s respect: Huge menu selection. Vego options, meat-lover options, vego/meat-lover options (for people like me). Not-to-be-believed size. The patty alone should comprise a week’s worth of protein. Quality WA-produced ingredients.
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No Twilighters, red dust storms or hogtying
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 12 February 2010
Last night, The Economist released findings from its study into the world’s most livable cities. They judged 140 global cities on five criteria: stability, health care, culture, environment, education and infrastructure. Think Paris, NYC or Rome made the top ten? Nope! But guess which city ranked 8th? That’s right – Perth! While I’m thrilled that my [...]
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Perth is my sunny hometown mistress…
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 6 February 2010
I’ve just returned to my island home, my tropical paradise, from two event filled weeks in my hometown Perth. I flew into town after a night in Bali with friends and kittens and got to the airport to be met by my big sister and my bro in-law. It was nice to see them, it had [...]
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Sunday Sessions at Fremantle ArtsCentre
Blog: What's So Great about Perth? - 1 February 2010
Sunday Sessions are to Perthites what hooded rain jackets are to Seattleites: absolutely essential for survival. Friends come together on lazy Sunday afternoons to eat, drink and will the weekend to never end. Beach, bar or backyard – it makes no difference. But yesterday we might have found Perth’s best Sunday Session locale at Fremantle [...]
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Indian Pacific 3: Cook to Perth
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 17 December 2009
The final chapter of my three-day journey from Sydney to Perth aboard the Indian Pacific, the train that traverses a continent...Friday 4 December 2009 10am, Cook
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The Weekly Photo: Sunrise in Karijini
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 22 November 2009
Sunrise in Karijini National Park, Western Australia [...]
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Journey Along Ningaloo Reef
Blog: Trail of Ants - 12 November 2009
There’s something alluring about a place, when you can retell a journey and become excited merely by its name. Many of you know I’m currently hiding under the wing of a Kiwi. However, not so long ago I was on a hunk of the neighbouring island continent, Australia, where I drew a route along the [...]
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Swimming With Australia’s Whale Shark
Blog: Trail of Ants - 7 October 2009
Are you viewing this in a reader? Come on over to the site, it’s much more funcational over here. The Ocean’s Roaming Gypsies Thirteen years ago, I was stood on the deck of a boat in an Egyptian bay. I was fourteen years old, sopping wet from scuba diving and torn between the scourge of seasickness, and [...]
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A Stroll Along Australia’s West Coast
Blog: Trail of Ants - 24 August 2009
The beach was pale and despite being daubed with colourful swimwear, it was lacking and hollow. It was everything a beach should be; sparse and coated in sun like treacle smothers toast. Reb and I reached a mutual agreement to leave, without the need for fall away words. We’d replaced a blown-out tyre, filled the [...]
