In the early hours of Thursday morning, Steve and I went along to Perth International to pick up Nick flying in from Singapore. Re-united, we spent several hours exchanging travel stories of the past month and drinking Jim Beam and Cokes.
Within days of his arrival, I also had an unwelcome arrival in my room - in the form of a deadly Redback spider. With any normal spider, I would have just pushed it into cup with some paper and thrown it out... but I didn't really want to mess with this one. So, after consulting Steve - the resident Aussie, we decided the best method would be to fold up a beer mat and with a swift thud... let's just say he won't be making any more webs again.
The following days consisted of Nick finding his bearings living back in the Western world. I showed him the city and our surroundings in Inglewood. He showed me how to cook curry and Toad in the Hole... very welcome after a diet of oven baked meals and spaghetti bologniase!
On Sunday, we, along with the other housemates went along to the Fremantle Beer Festival. Here was the chance to sample any of over 40 international beers from all sorts of exotic parts of the world: Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Jamaica and Britain! The temperature got to around 40 degrees which made the drinking of so much beer quite difficult. Nevertheless, we managed to make it through 'till dusk when some popular local rock bands took the centre stage to entertain the jovial crowds.
When we were no longer interested to drink any more beer, we jumped in the minibus for the ride back in to Perth. Hungry when we got back, I decided to cook another Spag Bol... Chilli style! Ghetto cooks in da house!!!
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Well that's one of the 500 poisonous species you might meet in Australia out of the way - Steve & Jan said avoid any blue insects/reptiles. Well impressed with your washing & cooking skills - you're like a student but without the inconvenience of studying.
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