Perth

Been in Perth for the last two days or so.

The weather is slightly warmer than Melbourne's, which is great as I can do away with the jacket - its just t-shirt and jeans and its good to go.

I am however a little worried. It is supposed to be winter but the afternoon sun was decidedly warm. How will I cope when Summer comes around? That though is another question for another time.

Anyway have been in Thornlie for the past two days and it's decidedly quieter than Melbourne. Perth drivers seem a tad more patient than the ones we encountered in Melbourne too.

There seems to be a lot of development going on at the moment on Perth's roads - expansion of existing roads everywhere.

We visited a few suburbs today but more on that another day as we will be going round to a few more in the next few days.

Schools here though do operate a little differently. All the students go around in hats and the Perth school bells are really awful sounding - the first few times we heard it, we looked around expecting to see an emergency vehicle speeding through. What does it sound like? I think the best description would be an air raid signal. Schools in Perth also seem to occupy a larger land area and they all invariably have larger, grassier school fields than their Melbourne counterparts.