Perth - roast beef and gravy sandwiches and ginger beer‏

Hello, There'll be stuff in brackets in this and some of you will know the people and places and some won't. We left our resort in Ko Samui at 6am on Thursday morning after spending 10 days doing nothing but lie on the beach. we had planned this to be a holiday and thats what it was. we could've took a boat to some other islands but we were booked into the resort for 10 days so we thought we'd just make the most of it, reading books (Eric Clapton and Peter Kay biographies emma read kerry katonas first novel) and getting some colour. we flew to bangkok and then perth via kuala lumpur. we didn't know that we went through another time zone so when we landed in kuala lumpur at 5pm it was actually 6pm and our flight was leaving in 25 mins. so we had to hot foot it from one end of the airport to the other. fortunately it was the same airline and there were a lot of other people going onto perth with their luggage being shifted from one plane to another so this ended up keeping the other plane late. I was really looking forward to this flight. The longer flights have tv's and you can watch films etc. you can imagine my disappointment when first of all emma and i weren't sitting together and then I didn't have a tv in front of me either. there was only one screen at the front of the cabin and they put on a disney film about american football starring the rock.> > > > when we arrived in Perth Emma's suitcase had the lock busted open and someone had been through all her stuff. we've made a complaint and we're awaiting a new suitcase and a first class flight home!!> > > > My mate Dilly (Dylan Galloghly from camlough) picked us up and we're currently staying in his place in Trigg one of suburbs of Perth. Scarborough beach is 5 minutes walk and it is incredible. it's roasting here. 42 the day we arrived. really hot and the sun stays out til 8.30pm. we also went to see the place we've arranged to stay here. it's in Fremantle (Freo) which is about 20 mins south of Perth. My brother Liam who was in oz 4 years ago said "it's like the point (warrenpoint)".> > I'll say this it's what the point could be like if we had the weather. it's a port and people go down there at the weekends for fish n chips in ciccarellos like they go down to the point to the genoa.> > > > The flat is spot on . the girl who is renting us the flat is also travelling here from London but she has been struck down with appendisitis in the phillipines and won't be here til next weekend. so we had her mothers friends doing all the arranging for her. These people are originally from hungary and germany but have lived here for 33 years and have changed their names and all to ann and alan foster. they said "what will we chnage our names to?" and alan saw a tin of fosters on the table and said "well that will do". what a couple of characters. when we got to the house the ole boy alan was taking pictures of us "in case we were the mafia". Lovely people.> > > > The flat is slap bang in the middle of Freo and we're moving in tomorrrow and will start to look for jobs on tuesday. it's pretty expensive here. exchange rate is roughly 2 dollars to the pound but my new favourite food, a roast beef and gravy sub (these are available everywhere) is about 7.50 - 8 dollars, crate of beer 40 dollars, 8 dollars a pint and a main course was 20 dollars. went to a party the other night and they had alcoholic slush puppies cocktails. these two girls were celebrating being friends for 30 years!! the party was over at 1am and we were all home sober. very grown up party, very friendly people. I got talking to a woman who says she has some contacts in the film industry here (she may be a nut case though as she was trying to hook us all up with jobs she was trying to get dilly to go and work for her uncle who is a shrink, dilly is studying in australia to be a clinical psychologist) I'll give her a bell anyway, can't hurt. emma was talking to a guy who works in recruitment (which is her profession) so we made a couple of contacts at this party also. a few years ago i would have said this was a shite party but we had a good time. nobody understands my Newry accent so really have to speak to everyone like they have hearing problems. everytime i say something they reply "say again"Australia day next saturday. aw yeah!!anyhoo thats all for now.