{"id":280,"date":"2008-08-28T03:20:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T02:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:29","slug":"perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/perth\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I arrived at my final Australian destination, where I&#8217;m staying with my friend Nancy and her family. I&#8217;m enjoying myself a lot, and not just because I have my own room (even with ensuite bath!) and wireless internet&#8230; *g* On Tuesday I met up with Barbara (who I&#8217;d met in Broome) and we went to the pretty harbour town of Fremantle. Yesterday I explored Perth&#8217;s CBD (Central Business District) and went to see a concert &#8211; Panic at the Disco, Cobra Starship and The Academy Is&#8230; &#8211; which was awesome despite it getting quite squishy in the first few rows sometimes. Almost the best bit was that I ran into Panic&#8217;s drummer, Spencer Smith, in the street while out sightseeing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804938392\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3195\/2804938392_b5328d0b04_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804940288\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3043\/2804940288_37fcdfc3a2_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804940620\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3170\/2804940620_2cc42f0787_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804940994\/Panic-in-Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3111\/2804940994_24ace39916_m.jpg\" alt=\"Panic in Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804095871\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/2804095871_7d1e363063_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804943106\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3054\/2804943106_abe47de200_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804944820\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2804944820_fbb7b8b6eb_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804100669\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3066\/2804100669_3a50bc3d3a_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2804105539\/Panic-in-Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3167\/2804105539_c3152dc711_m.jpg\" alt=\"Panic in Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As always, all photos can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/sets\/72157606423848250\/\">here<\/a>. Less than a week now until I leave down under and head to Singapore for a couple of days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, I discovered another little movie I made in Monkey Mia &#8211; pelicans vying for fish leftovers at sunset:<br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=59154\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=8818215cf8&amp;photo_id=2804963434\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=59154\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=59154\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=8818215cf8&amp;photo_id=2804963434\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I arrived at my final Australian destination, where I&#8217;m staying with my friend Nancy and her family. I&#8217;m enjoying myself a lot, and not just because I have my own room (even with ensuite bath!) and wireless internet&#8230; *g* On Tuesday I met up with Barbara (who I&#8217;d met in Broome) and we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/perth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-australia","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}