A little bit of Flanders, in West Perth

There is a bar/cafe in West Perth that I have fallen in love with, The Belgium Beer Cafe.
It serves Leffe Brune, a dark beer 6.4% and cracking. It plays Jazz music, has live bands and is just a little piece of continental Europe in WA.
The menu is in French and you can get a Croque [...]

Save the Planet (one tree at a time)

It’s only one tree, but it is 750 years old.
In WA they have transported a tree 3,200kms from the remote Kimberley region to King’s park in Perth
I saw the tree yesterday as it was buggering up traffic in Subi (it’s 14 metres high and the lorry (truck) carrying it is 25 metres long)
Then today I [...]

Australia is the same as the UK… but different too.

Back to what this blog was meant to be about, my experience in Australia…..
It’s just over 3 months since I landed in Oz (14th April), so I thought it was time that I blogged about some of my insights
Perth is a great city, however Winter wasn’t the best time to come here. There isn’t the [...]

Thanks for all you messages, sorry for being slack.

Just a quick post to say thanks to everyone for all their messages, apologies for not replying to you all.
The last 10 days have been spent finding my feet, getting into my new job etc etc
So to answer you all (hopefully)
Yes I am enjoying myself, it is still very surreal though
I do miss my friends [...]

It’s been emotional…..

Well it’s my last day at work today, last day as a Spannerworker (I know I work for iCrossing now, but I am a Spannerworker, at least for the next 7 hours)
Ironically I am leaving on my 1st Anniversary, least I managed the year. And a amazing year at that.
But it is now the start [...]