Blogging from the hotel!

Ok - so it's 11pm in the evening at the moment, and I'm blogging from the hotel. 3 days trotting backwards and forwards to McDonalds has been taking its toll on us - and I must confess, I am an internet addict. I suddenly feel really alive now that we have internet connection in the hotel room. The TV is on in the background - but that's more background noise more than anything.

So, I've just been surfing to find out how to unlock my mobile phone, but I'm not having much luck there. I may have to drag myself around a mobile unlock shop tomorrow to see if someone can unlock my phone for me. We've just bought a Pre-Paid sim card from the local Woolworths, so we can leave a contact number for estate agents to contact us on.

We've been calling estate agents from the hotel room or from public telephones (because its cheaper than calling from the hotel!), but each time they ask us for a contact number, we have been saying that we'll call them back or to email us. Of course emailing us is no good, as we have to keep dragging oursleves to McDonalds to get free wifi connection. So, we've decided to get a pre-paid sim card from Woolworths so estate agents can have a contact number to  call us back on. 

Anyway, you may have noticed that I've just mentioned Woolworths - yes Woolworths! You may have thought that all Woolworths have shut down now (as we did), but Woolworths is actually a supermarket over here. And you can't get any booze from Woolworths - so we've - or at least Chris has - been pretty tee-total so far.

Before I forget, I thought I'd tell you about the telephone system over here - it really feels like England 10 years ago here - you get charged a connection fee  whenever you make a call - yes, a connection fee - how backwards is that?! Anyway, Perth estate agents seem quick laid back here - you wouldn't believe the number of times we've got through to an answer phone - the trick is to hang up just before you get put through to an answer phone, or else you get charged for both a connection fee and a machine!