After posting yesterday we headed out for a picnic on the green outside the musuem and art gallery complex, surrounded by seagulls. The WA Art Gallery wasn't exactly a patch on the Tate, but instead focused on more local exhibitions. There was one excellent room recommended by a few people we've spoken to; a show of a collection of Year 12 final pieces from Art courses across the country. Year 12 in Oz is the final compulsory school year, and so much of the work ...

G'day from Perth! We have safely checked into our first hostel in Perth out of 3 - the Witch's Hat (http://www.witchs-hat.com/index.asp), we're here for 2 weeks so we were glad to see that the place is amazing!! It's almost like living in a massive family house, they have a common room, crazy kitchen, dvd nights, friday night bbqs, a breakfast courtyard - and luckily the shared bathroom isn't faring too badly so far. We have discovered that leaving China has ma...

Yesterday morning, approximately 7.20am, our flight QF068 landed in sunny Perth airport. We were totally unprepared for Australia (dare we say we were already homesick for China...?) and the fact that it feels like some sort of skewed British normality. Liam found it very unnerving to be picked up by Ness - Claire's Dad's friend, taken back to her GOREOUS house with a pool and a speedboat and a snooker table, ad surrounded by Lincolnshire/Notts accents with her h...