If you remember, yesterday when the shuttle bus from the ferry was driving us all around town leaving people in their respective accomodations, I had the chance to spot a shop specialised in sending parcels abroad so this morning while Aída went to do some shopping, I went there to enquire about their prices...I could certainly unload a few more kilos from my rucksack... I've got too many T-shirts!
The price to send to Spain a couple of Kg was $235. I still can't understand how I managed to keep my jaw from dropping to the floor when the guy told me. I must have had my best poker face on because he then asked me if I wanted to know the price for 5 Kg! and I replied I had all the info I needed thankyouverymuch! and I was already out in the street before I finished my sentence.
$235!!! for 2 Kg!!! if it were gold...I could understand but for a few stinking t-shirts... quite pricey...
I'll probably have to get back to the post office to send some more stuff back home...but at a more reasonable rate...There is a strict limit of 15 Kg on the next excursion...
By shipping the stuff back home it will take about 3 months to get there... on the positive side...My summer clothes will be navigating all around the globe and I'll receive them just when the summer is about to start. Just when I need them. That'll free up quite a lot of space in my room. :-)
That's an idea for the future in case you're running out of space in your room... it may be interesting to check the price for extra storage space and for shipping your clothes around the globe.
After this jaw dropping experience, I met Aída for lunch at a local bakery and then we decided to go and find "Jacobs ladder" which apparently is a famous staircase to climb from the river all the way to Kings Park.
We did not find it but we found this:
Another road sign joining my collection. :-)
So we decided to follow another track we found and just when we were about to start it we saw signs for Jacob's ladder which we were about 980 metres away so we decided to carry on with the one we found and perhaps try Jacob's ladder some other day. As it turned out, later on we found out Jacob's ladder was closed due to the floodings from the other day.
Anyway, the path going up to Kings Park was a nice one
When we reached the park we just walked around it and found a nice spot in the middle where we decided to stop and spend an hour or two.
After that we went to do our daily duties at one of the local McDonalds and as we were starting to come out of the park we saw what look like the preparations for a concert.
As in all good concerts, logistics are very important
When we got to our accomodation, there was something going on at the nearby stadium, you could hear people cheering and booing, never found out what it was, maybe a Ozy Rules match, a soccer match? I doubt it would be cricket thouth...people would be sleeping and not shouting...
Today we decided that if the weather is good tomorrow we'll go and visit Freemantle which is another ex-penal colony which nowadays is quite picturesque or so they say...we'll see.
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