I’ve written several times about travels and I will be doing that a lot in the next days for sure.
My last trips abroad were almost strictly business and usually to very cosmopolitan places.
Last month I spent some days in Luxembourg, some months ago the destination was Frankfurt. I both occasions I meet interesting people from quite different parts of the world.
One of the most extroverted ones – non latin I must stress – was Guy, an ausie from the western city of Perth.
Since I was a kid, Perth in Australia was one of those places that was highlighted in the world map, like Tromso, far north in Sweden, Santa Helena Island in mid South Atlantic or Tierra del Fuego in Chile. They were far away, exotic and isolated. The years passed and the romantic images of each place followed different paths, Perth was in fact the one I most ignore until recently.
Australia seams to be tilted towards east: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra are all in the eastern coast. In the South West the map only had (as has) that small black point stating Perth’s place in the world. It has to be a small and isolated town. Mustn’t it?
I guess the next step is to find one of the most interesting cheap hotels and grab the holiday allowance that I’ve been saving and take a tour to the antipodes. Maybe next time I’ll be writing from one of Perth Hotels nearby the Swan River!
Lots of them to choose from here: