{"id":281,"date":"2008-09-01T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:29","slug":"perth-last-post-from-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/perth-last-post-from-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth: Last post from down under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Australia tomorrow to head to Singapore for 3 days. I&#8217;ve had a lovelylovely time here in Perth, seriously, mostly thanks to Nancy and her awesome family, who spoiled me rotten. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>More things I did here: Explored the beautiful Kings Park Botanic Gardens, visited the lovely Perth Zoo, another trip to Fremantle (or Freo, as the locals call it), a family outing down the coast, lunch with Chris and Gill from the Uluru tour and Scarborough Beach with Fiona (who I&#8217;d met on the bus to Monkey Mia) and her boyfriend. Oh, and played with Nancy&#8217;s three cute cats (Rogue, Melma and Lenny) and a lonely little dog named Alby on the way to the train station here. I might also have indulged in a little bit of retail therapy and caught a bit of a cold, which I hope will go away and stop bothering me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2816892073\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3007\/2816892073_4784a2c1d5_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2816892971\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3295\/2816892971_aa4ce2f809_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2816903433\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2056\/2816903433_f1a98accbc_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2817756790\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3227\/2817756790_31515828fd_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2817757510\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3285\/2817757510_02ee511fcf_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2816910921\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3060\/2816910921_8196c5fb31_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2816912363\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3271\/2816912363_257a197e9d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/photos\/photo\/2817764068\/Perth.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3295\/2817764068_d906bf0670_m.jpg\" alt=\"Perth\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As always, all photos can be found on Flickr <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/sets\/72157606423848250\/\">here<\/a>. And a cute little video of a monkey playing at the zoo:<\/p>\n<p><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=69a8722b06&amp;photo_id=2816931575\"><\/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=69a8722b06&amp;photo_id=2816931575\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Australia tomorrow to head to Singapore for 3 days. I&#8217;ve had a lovelylovely time here in Perth, seriously, mostly thanks to Nancy and her awesome family, who spoiled me rotten. \ud83d\ude42 More things I did here: Explored the beautiful Kings Park Botanic Gardens, visited the lovely Perth Zoo, another trip to Fremantle (or Freo, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/perth-last-post-from-down-under\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perth: Last post from down under&#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-281","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\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}