Our internet is connected at last so time for a new blog post!
The past 3 weeks have been pretty busy with starting a new job and moving house. We actually found a new place pretty quickly. We decided early on that we wanted to live in Subiaco and fortunately the perfect place had just gone on the rental market! We snapped it up!
Subiaco is a suburb about 4km west of Perth CBD and about 8km east of the beaches. It is one of the more trendy locations because it has great bars, restaurants and cafes. We live just off the main café strip, so everything is easily within a 5 min walk. Just a bit further away (10min walk) is the beautiful King's Park.
Our new house is awesome! Its a federation style town house. We have a kitchen and large open plan living dining area with a court yard out the back. Upstairs we have 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. We also have a small balcony which has become my new favourite coffee spot!
It a pretty old style house but full of character! Any by full of character I mean it is really old-fashioned and in need of updating! The kitchen and bathroom have probably never been re-decorated since it was built! But it feels like home to us! After 8 years of generic 2 bed apartments that are all same same but different, this place is fab!
One of the coolest features in the house is its spiral staircase. Although this soon lost its appeal when we had to struggle to get all the furniture and a washing machine up it!
The best part though is it huge in-built bike storage solution. Can you believe 5 bikes fit inside this!!
Other than a whole load of furniture shopping and more than I care to count trips to IKEA, we have not really done too much else. Chris ran in the 'City to Surf' race with some new friends. The City to Surf race is a hugely popular running event in Perth. You can race over distances of 12km, half marathon or marathon. Chris did amazingly well to say he didn't train! He completed the 12km race in under 55mins which put him in the top 3%! not bad when over 30,000 people ran!! Unfortunately I had to work so missed out on the fun!
On my days off I travelled down south with some of the other new doctors at work. We went to Margaret River which is a beautiful wine growing region. We did a tour of some of the wineries and sampled lots of he local goodies....and... well I can't really remember much more than that :-D
I'm not too much of a wine drinker but I did find a bottle that was gorgeous! I decided to buy a bottle and was a little shocked to find out that I had just paid $50 for a bottle of wine! I have definitely inherited my Mum's expensive taste!
On the last day of the trip I was quite keen to get home early as I had a few jobs to finish in the new house and I was desperate to ride my bike!! Prior to setting off home we went to the beach for breakfast. Some of the guys then fancied a swim in the sea. Unfortunately he forgot to take the car keys out of his pocket and so they are now somewhere at the bottom of the Indian Ocean! So we spent the rest of the day waiting for a tow-truck to take us back to Perth! It turned out that we had a nice picnic at the beach instead so not a wasted day at all!
This weekend Chris and I have both sat and sun off together so we have a great weekend lined up! Tonight (Friday) I am going to the Perth velodrome. Tomorrow we are heading up north to visit the Pinnacles national park and go sand boarding. Then on Sunday, more bike riding!! Perthfect!!
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