Perth XXIV - Bye, bye... Part I!

December 3rd certainly arrived, we´re not in a fairytale, right...
No 79, this was our home. A filthy home, but... if there is a next time we go for it again. Just never take off your shoes, not even in the shower and you´re ok. Certainly I hope management will change and all goes back to normal, to....

"a place we call home" - pic from 1999.

Our friend H came to pick us up at around 09:30 and took care of our luggage - which had grown from one to two suitcases. Heavy ones, too - so much to take home!

She drove us to Warwick and headed back home and we went to Perth and here:

... we took the lift - as said, express!, and were up in said office in no time.
We didn´t have to pick a number - "our" lady recognized us and called us over immediately (yes, I did feel bad - for a sec).

That was when I got it why she never asked for our names.
Obviously, despite being such a huge city, not that many Germans marry over there! On one day.

We were told: The marriage-certificate has arrived, yay. We need to go to another room to pay and get the postille.
Mind you - we had the postille even before we paid!
This is not Germany, right? Here, you trust people!

Did I ever tell in Windorah I refilled the car and was asked: Cash or credit card?

1995 - Our green Holden Commodore at the dune near Windorah.

I said, Credit card, please.
The man took the machine, turned it into my direction and said, please, there you go, I´m blind.

I kid you not. Certainly he could hear which buttons I hit and how much gas I got at the station (better add that, "at the station", right? ;-)...), but still. I was like... awww...

I did this again in 1999:

My fav car ever, our reddish-brown Nissan Patrol LWB.

This time, though, we were on the big run! "The OZ-Party", the "Birdsville Track" and now I understood why there are more public toilets than people in that place!
Windorah was more than packed, I even had to wait to refill the car and again it was the same blind man, the same question, the same answer from my side - but this time he handed me over to a person that could see and work the machine.

Now that I lost it I have to add.
Guys - you have no idea how to party in some places.
Birdsville was booooring. How many peeps do live there , 295, Wiki says. At "the races" the pop rises to 6 000.
There is music. In the only Pub.
Else.... nothing.

Ok. The hype is actually getting there, I know.
The dirtier your car, the better - we were "good", huh?

But, really, a party without music?
Same here:

Darwin Beer Can Regatta - music only in one tiny spot - no fun!
Or is that the Aussie way and Germans are so dang different after all?
We need music! :-)

Well.
As you can see I try to hide away from saying good-bye to our Perth adventure...
I am bad at saying good bye, proof is to come...

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