WA Easter - Day 1

Friday, 19 April 2019

It's been a long long day. We started in Hobart at 4am, and we're here in Fremantle at 8pm. In fact we're all so exhausted we're just trying to stay awake in our cell until we can almost respectably go to bed.

I say cell because we're staying at a Youth Hostel at the Old Fremantle Gaol, and it's awesome!   We're in a family room which is  newer than the other rooms and has its own bathroom, but most of the other rooms are actually the old cells.  

That means we also have a 20 foot high wall around the perimeter of the building, and lots of original features mixed with humorous related ones - like these clocks..showing the times of the Tower of London and Pentridge Prison respectively.

Being a youth hostel there is the usual mixture of guests, including an entire mens lacrosse team which is interesting - we're used to orienteering gear drying all over the place, here there are sticks, helmets, pads and gloves lined up outside their rooms.  

The location of this place is great too - we checked out the Fremantle Markets and bought some delicious takeaway for dinner. 

Unfortunately we're only here one night as tomorrow we head a few hours west to the wheatbelt, and have two nights in a country Pub. In fact this trip will feature a wide range of accommodation  styles, - so that will be a fun experience.  So far so good!