Following post briefly gathers up the two and half months I spent in Perth working. We are talking about the same amount of time that was covered with ALL of the previous posts in the blog.
It’s not that these 10 weeks were boring, but it’s hard to actually do interesting stuff when you live in Perth and wake up every day 5:something AM. That’s what I needed to do for working in Kings Park. And I find it more interesting to cover stories from adventurous trips from different places that I came to do here in the other side of the globe, than just talking about Perth.
So what was the job about? Hmm.. in a way it was a lot of stuff. And in a way it was empty as a hot air balloon. I can say that I know few things more about construction then I did before. And I can also say that it’s the kind of job that is just not for me. Basically it was all about doing things in one massive city park (with ~100 employees) that would put the dot to an i, cherry on a cake etc. It included painting, oiling, cleaning, fixing, building, driving, dismantling and fair amount of just being steady-steady (it means just killing time or not wearing yourself out, depending on the perspective).
I really appreciate Jamie and Barbara’s effort in making me feel home as they were my hosts for the first few weeks while I was just settling down. And Russ and Tanya for their room that I rented afterward for few months.
And a picture-story of these 10 weeks follows.
This is Perth. If you are not familiar with it then FYI it’s the capital of state WA. Top 5 of the most livable cities in the world according to wikipedia. It’s a nice place if you wanna set up a family or something. It has well advanced, clean and modern public transport, friendly people, nice parks, Sunday sessions (every sunday they gather in a pub to have some beers and see the sunset), beaches, river, quiet and safe suburbs all over the city etc. But it’s also very conservative place. Shops close at 6pm, most stuff is closed on Sundays, pubs close at 10 and they said NO for daylight savings public voting for the fear of climate changes and more road-accidents (I might be over exaggerating here though, but that’s the case).
In one sentence. Not a city for me to stick around for much longer than the time spent.
Although, you can’t say nothing bad for the silhouette of the city. It’s just glowing in the night.
And I had a few nice grill parties in Barbs/Jamies place. This is one of the first ones with Priit and Madli both still in Oz.
An example of these Sunday sessions I mentioned earlier. There you got a pub, beers and sun setting into Indian Ocean. And Jamie for company.
The book about Australia I got from you guys for the trip. It was a good companion for the times. And helped me a bit in my english-writing skills for the blog as well.
I will explain this picture for you estonians. You see the queue of people there? And where it’s heading? Into the bus stop is the right answer.
I find this a definite candidate into top10 of weird things to encounter while traveling.
A part of my everyday morning route to work. CBD of Perth. Even in very early mornings, it was surprisingly crowded out there. Lot of people start their work before 7 AM. It was like a whole new world to me that I didn’t know even existed (but don’t get me wrong, when I return to my usual life, I still plan to sleep till 9 or so).
Big-city-like feeling
The bridge I crossed every morning with my push-bike. The traffic never stopped on this highway. Never
There were couple of great things about this job I had. The location, the beauty of the park itself and sunrises in the morning. So every morning we started our day, we took the scenic route that overlooked the city on top of a mountain with a million dollar view as the sun was coming out and pretended that this is the route we have to take for whatever we were supposed to do.
That was my last day at work on the picture above. It’s a good thing that you can’t really see me. The uniform wasn’t very bad, but the jumper was more less from the 80s with old botanical green color and the jeans were close to 10 cm short for me.
Don’t have many pictures of Kings Park itself, but take it from me - it is the best park inside a city where I’ve been. If you go to Perth, go there. Spend half a day there, see the botanical gardens, have a picnic at daytime in some grill areas or take couple of friends there after sunset when you can just sit down and enjoy the view while having good conversation with a nice goon aside.
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