Around Fremantle and Perth

It is nice to have time to just relax and decide for ourselves what we want to do with the day. I find it stressful just getting organized to get away. It's there for a luxury to have an uncommitted day.

Fremantle has beautiful architecture and buildings thanks to the m gold rush. It's easy to spend time wandering around and looking at the historic buildings which have not just been retained but preserved as well. It's easy to forget that Fremantle was also a penal colony. In the center of the city, evidence of its convict past is everywhere. We're undeterred by the rain and showers that come intermittently throughout the day.

We are not due to board the ship until 4:00 p.m. tomorrow so a decision has to be made as to what we do with the time between checking out of the hotel and going to the ship. Taking the train to Perth seems like an obvious thing to do, not very stressful as the station is nearby and the train is just a 30-minute ride from the center of Perth.

This trip is really just an excuse to do something other than hang around the hotel, Perth is a modern wealthy City with some quirky architectural decisions. Sometime in the 1930s somebody decided to build an arcade based on Tudor, England. It looks quite strange amongst all the modern buildings. A little bit further on from here is a really interesting modern take on a bell tower. We don't spend a lot of time in Perth, wander through the gardens down to the river and then back to the train

Although the port is close to our hotel, as everything else is in Fremantle, we're still forced to take a taxi to get to the ship. Over the course of the day I have been feeling increasingly unwell. I do manage to get through all the formalities of boarding and even unpack case but I declined dinner and go to bed early, hopefully a restful sleep will be the cure.Read more