Chris was here

Our first visitor has come and gone; a week we had the company of Chris, our friend from Nijmegen. Unfortunately he visited us alone, since Ryan is busy with the end-of-the-year-dealings at his office. We are pretty sure he liked it, cause Perth is in many ways similar to Nijmegen, just a little bit larger, slightly younger and more crowded. But the lay back attitude is the same and the people over here dress as bad as in Nijmegen, or maybe even worse. But...at least they are friendly which can often not be said for Amsterdammers.

The weather was great, not too sunny and a nice breeze in the evenings. Swanbourne Beach was a short drive (yes, we have a car: Ford KA, year 2000 with 70k on it), but you needed to shelter ones self from the hard wind that kept blowing sand particles. Next time, we're taking a tent with us as protection from too much sun and wind (and maybe a shark shield, cause there have been a few -fatal- attacks lately)

Talking about sun, this week we're getting our first taste of spring:

Preparations have been made: we bought a portable fan which will be on most of the night in the bedroom. Also we've fitted a removable bug screen to a window, so we can leave it open during the night. Living room has airco, so no problems there.
Last weekend was also Pride-weekend, with a parade at night! Probably, because of the weather conditions here, it's better to have the parade starting at 8.00 pm. It was actually not bad at all. The evening gave it a special dimension, together with the city's exuberant X-mas decoration.

More photos of the parade will follow, cause there still on Chris's mobile phone and he's currently in Kuala lumpur. Hmmm...wondering what he's doing there??!!