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A day in Perth

Av Martina - 19 februari 2011 09:27

Today was just the most ordinary day, going to the library, cruising around and then going back home. Just to make something useful of the day.

To get into Perth from where we live there is a busstop just one road crossing from us, there it is either the 72 or th 75 that you catch. They will take you directly into the main big road near the city center called Adelaide Terrace. (this is the same road where Fenian's, the lovely Irish bar, where we've been at least 10 times!)

Main goal today was to return some of the books that I lended from the State library (though not this one, this is my new bible and I have to study alot more!!)

This is where I get of the bus, though on the other side of the road thanks to confusing Aussies having some of its colonised rules still. I am still looking the Swedish was so I have been closed to being hit by cars several times!

This is the small sign that did take me quite a long time before I noticed it. It is a very small library but way better content than the much bigger state library.

Unfortunately this weird/cool statue has been hidden behind these fences for the whole time we have been here due to reconstruction of the area. It is by far the coolest statue that I have ever seen in a city, too bad it is kind of out of sight for unexperienced tourists. Behind it is a church which I think is named St. George's church, the only reason I remember is not because I pass there very often but that it is a part of the name of the street where we live!

When you come up from the main street you are met by this cosy little gathering of benches (the loveliest thing about it is that there is always a cooler breeze there and it is mostly in the shadow during the day) I have spent many times sitting on one of these enjoying some book that I could not wait until I got home to read :)

This is actually the back entrance to the building and it is located on the lower ground floor, the air con in there is the best in the world, extremely cooling but not enough to make you start freezing! I admit it sounds a bit serious when it says Law Chamber on the entrance though!

To my super luck, (which seems to be following me everywhere) the library closes at 12.00 am on a Saturday and I got there 11.35 approx. So as soon as I got my books out ready to read and study some Editor knowledge the speaker announced 'The library will be closing shortly please make your way to the counter for renewals and any books that you would like to borrow' Of course they did not sound as polite and stupifying as that but something like it. So being kicked out of the library made me go into the center to see if something was going on. This is Murray Street and is one of the two big streets in the city center (Hay street is running parallel with it)

There is always some kind of performance or music entertainment on the streets here, usually there are pretty mediocre or even annoying (like the crazy man that has no talant what so ever, but he keeps coming with his speakers that is absolutely blaring the loudest shit music, haha, remember at the cafe?)

Some of the acts I have seen before, and they don't really change, like this guy, ( I think I told you about him, one time when I saw him two really stupid guys came and started imitating his dance moves and as you can see there are plenty of people watching this. I felt really sorry for the guy but he continued anyway.)

He is not really the most talented dancer in the world but he makes the whole audience laugh at least ones. He takes random people out in the middle of the square and discreetly makes a fool out of them. So I always stay as far away as I can!!!

There were three girls walking around in the most exotic dresses handing out leaflets (I never went near them since I saw 95% of the people taking one throwing it in the bin after quickly skimming it through.

Here is our bank located on Hay Street, where Elsofie works. (Det var har jag och Padraig rakade ga in och Elsofie satt i entren hon sitter faktiskt inte alltid vid entren sa dar hade vi tur ocksa! Men hon jobbade sjalvklart inte idag, men banken var faktiskt oppen, men bara nagra timmar (kan man inte gora sa i Sverige ocksa? Eller ar dem oppna pa lordagar? Kommer inte ihag :P )

IKEA is like the most Swedish thing in the world, except for ABBA, sill and yeah... chicks! But this is very strange you land in Perth Australia and you discover there is this Swedish home and office style shop, but you were born and raised in Sweden and never seen it...

But I have to say it makes me proud, and if I ever have a really bad day I usually go in and try to feel some comfort that Sweden will never be as far away as it is geographically to me :) Their spring collection is called Var, som pa svenska, and seeing that word makes me feel special, not that I think that I am the only one that will have the same smirk on my face when seeing it (There's apparently loads of sweeeeedes every where here) but still, (I showed it to you the other day and they actually have some really nice stuff, and quality leather things!) Proud Swede :)

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Av Martina - 19 februari 2011 01:52

this is for my near and dear ones to follow what I am up to during the day! Pictures and comments of the little things my day involves.

This is the building that we live in in unit 408, 4th floor 08 apartment. As you can see we are just beside a lovely park, that we have to visit the next time P (you) come home. Take our blanket (which I am going to wash after the little incident of wine spilling and ant attack) and drink some nice wine (Though surrounded by some kind of ant repellent and smother ourselves with mosquito repellent, definetly!)

This is the way into the building and security number 1, by the entry door there is a little unit to enter a 4 digit code. It is the easiest code in the world 2580 (borja med tva och folj hela vagen ner, testa pa mobilen sa fattar nig :)

If you are a guest, you can push the button for the apartment in which we live in and we can let you in (man behover faktiskt inte mota dem som kommer utan inne i lagenheten finns en liten maskin, ser ut som en telefon och den ger ifran sig ett ringande ljud, da lyfter man luren och trycker pa knappen sa kan gasten komma in!)

When you got through the first security then comes the entrance, it looks like this. P and I noticed that at the time he was coming home the car-taker had taken all the old flowers away and planted new ones (man kan se att precis utanfor dorren sa finns det tva rader langst med den pyttelilla bron) I believe it was supposed to be a greeting present though still no flowers has grown.

This is what first greets you when entering the building, hundreds of post boxes! See mom its it not so easy to fit in any packages there, they are always sent to the post office! Our box is in the second department at the top of the fourth row.

Finally you have the 2nd security check here you have to use your magnetic card and make it touch the little black box just beside the door. Then elevators as you can dimly see through the glass.

A minor introduction of our apartment block, I personally think it is a very nice building (you are always met by the smell of the dinners by all different kinds of people, mainly Indians, so you are always feeling hungry when you come in!)

Now to a bit of the surroundings, Victoria Park is the town were we live in. It is kinda small but very wide, it covers a few kilometers in length and is surrounded by houses and apartment blocks everywhere. But the shops and restaurants are mainly located on the main road running through it Albany Highway (Albany Ajwaj, haha)

I take this moment to salute my new shoes, after being returned and exchanged to a bigger size they are now my best friends, so nice to walk and run in and when you are walking quite a distance to the shop it is nice to do it in shoes that makes you feel like you are walking on air!

This is a very nice spanish inspired house that is nearly the first thing I see everyday leaving my apartment for the bus or for food shopping. It kind of stick out a bit to all the Aussie houses that you see.

This is further down our street and the park that I mentioned earlier is just at the right in this picture.

What you see here is a normal bus stand in Perth suburbs. If it is not on a main road it looks like this...! Its amazing since coming from Sweden where there is no sand and no busses that needs to be hailed (man maste hejja till sig bussen nar den kommer annars passerar den dig, detta har hant till mig, kanns ganska tufft att bli dissad av en buss full med manniskor... )

I pass this church every time I go to Victoria Park center, and I think it reminds me a bit of Italy/Spain/Greece (?) Anyway you come to realise when you move away from Europe that sometimes anything that is from there reminds you of home. It is amazing that Europe people you meet in Australia they can all talk together as they come from one country!

This is a bit of the center of Victoria Park the main road Albany Highway (...haha) runs just to the left in this picture and goes on for quite sometime! If you follow the road down this way you come to Perth city via a bridge that runs over Swn River (10min by car)

It is barely readable but behind the "massive" tree is a sign for Woolworths (som ICA men, med farskare grejjer, och mycket dyrare!) which is were the two of us now, yes hun I got it too :D, have a rewards card (typ som Ica kortet, fast vi kan tjana poang pa fyra olika affarer och det kan sen bli forvandlat till flyg poang, som SAS (shoppar som satan nu for att kunna komma hem gratis, 1 dollar=1poang man behover ca 56000 poang for att komma fran Perth till London.... insag precis att det var ganska maktigt... Men vi har ju en stund pa oss)) Hopefully we will have points for some of the trip home at least. And we can link the two separate cards (P's and mine) so that we can gather points together!!

Here you can actually see the "woolw" in the top right corner and you can slightly see the the "Gloria Jean's" sign which is like Starbucks to the Aussies, I have to admit it is very nice, everything is so fresh and clean!

On the way home I could not help to take a picture of this sign, guess what it reminds me of hun? Yes, FRANKY :D I miss him soo my little Fjankyy. Hope he is doing well at home and not acting like this picture tells!!!

Here is another thing that really makes me wonder of the logic thinking of Aussies... Letterboxes that does not fit a newspaper... It does rain here so why would you...? I do not understand, besides some of the boxes I pass has all their contents blown all over the place, like important letters and stuff. No thank god for Swedish (...and Irish) logic to make them big enough and nearly all the time a lock on! (I mean seriously people, go to (lovely) IKEA and get a nice robust thing!)