Cool or Uncool? No. 1.

I wanted to title this post as `Worst of Perth`, but I am afraid this is already an existing brand. A very good brand.

I found this blog a long long time ago, you might even notice the link in the sidebar amongst other blogs. What make this (photo) blog so awesome are the ironic humour and the reading/writing community which shares this sense of humor.  Sometimes it is too hard for us to understand the in-jokes but sometimes the meaning is very obvious, even we can laugh out loud.

Perth is so isolated and so different from other state capitals in the East. But `this is Perth`, it has reaIMG 2701 225x300 Cool or Uncool? No. 1. | Ilyen nincs 1. részlly a Western Australian touch, which I cannot describe yet…

The bad news about this blog is that it is mainly understandable for Perth or WA residents only…

But I had an idea today. I want to show you some awesome pics we took before to give you some idea about weird things in Perth. You can decide whether they are cool or uncool.

Here is the first picture. Epic. Especially in a so called stylish suburb where it was seen.  Yak!

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Easter Tuesday

Today is Easter Tuesday in Australia. Yes, it is weird, but we really liked it just because it meant one more public holiday day to enjoy. It happened only because Easter was so late this year, that Easter Monday took place on ANZAC Day. So it was fair to give us one more free day, wasn`t it?.

IMG 2512 225x300 Easter Tuesday | Húsvét keddAnd if we talk about Easter, I have to tell you, we not only followed Hungarian traditions this year (like painting empty egg shells, eating ham with eggs and horseradish cream, following the Easter Monday girl-sprinkling tradition with water, etc), but I also baked `hot cross buns`  on Good Friday for the first time in my life.

Eating hot cross buns is a very Australian(and English) tradition, and mainly on Good Friday. The dough is a kind of brioche dough with lots of sultanas or chocolate chips. The cross on its top symbolizes the Crucifixion.

Well, I found a good recipe here. The dough is very easy to do, just follow the recipe. You IMG 2536 300x225 Easter Tuesday | Húsvét keddcan see on the picture how nice they looked at the end, I was really proud of myselfJ  As there was no mixed spice at home, I used only cinnamon and a little bit of vanilla sugar, but twice or three-times more cinnamon than it was told in the recipe and I can tell you, it was a good advice from people commenting this recipe. It really had a nice smell and a very shiny look. I can`t wait till next Easter with it)))

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Dawn Service in Perth

Today it was the commemoration day of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Corps) troops again in Australia. On 25th April, 1915 the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli, Turkey and fought for peacIMG 27242 300x225 Dawn Service in Perth | Hajnali ANZAC megemlékezés Perthbene in the WW1. On ANZAC Day we also remember those who participated in wars later, e.g. in Korean War, etc. This is a common commemoration day in Australia and New Zealand, and there are uncountable memorial services throughout the country and also in the cities, like in Perth.  This year is more special, because The Royal Australian Navy celebrates its 100th annual this year as well. (We shared this joy and bought ANZAC cookies in limited edition tin box icon smile Dawn Service in Perth | Hajnali ANZAC megemlékezés Perthben

IMG 2723 300x225 Dawn Service in Perth | Hajnali ANZAC megemlékezés PerthbenIn 2009, when we lived in Sydney, we visited the huge and memorable parade in town, it is the biggest ANZAC parade in the country with lots of veterans and members of several organizations that participated in wars, like the world`s largest humanitarian organization, Red Cross. You can read our anno blog post here.

So today we did not visit any parade, just because we felt really tired. We went to Kings Park instead, with what else than our new bikes…We were hurrying to the Dawn Service, which is a special form of memorial ceremony, because it happens in the darkness and in absolute silence before sunrise. So you can imagine how crowded the roads in Kings Park were before 5 am…. Actually the dawn service in Perth was the best attended this year with 45.000 people!!)))

IMG 2739 300x225 Dawn Service in Perth | Hajnali ANZAC megemlékezés PerthbenI liked the scene for the Dawn Service in Perth. The War Memorial is on the top of a plateau, and the view on the river harbour and the skyscrapers is just fantastic. It faces east, so you are basically waiting for the sunrise as well while standing in silence for about an hour or more. Viewing of archive footages started at about 4.30 am, and afterwards there was the short story of the 1st and 2nd WW and the role of ANZAC troops at Gallipoli and later in Crete, told by a narrator, which was very interesting and made us more sensitive for the meaning of this commemoration.

After that, veterans and relatives of late soldiers and other organizations made their commemoration at the memorial, placing their wreaths there. Everybody was standing in absolute silence, only the kookaburras were laughing nearby and other birds as the time passed by. It was a weird but very memorable and nice experience. IMG 2742 225x300 Dawn Service in Perth | Hajnali ANZAC megemlékezés PerthbenThe silence has a special meaning. It remembers us on those soldiers who were sitting in the boats to be landing at Gallipoli before dawn, sitting in silence, feeling mateship, courage, etc.

Australians are famous for their cheerful spirit, but this Dawn Service is absolutely not about this. It is only about proud but sad commemoration, without any picnic tools, food or merchandise thingies. Because of the silence it would have been very rude to take any photos so we did take them only after the official commemorations ended.

What do you like the most in ANZAC Day?

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All roads lead to Perth

Perth, Australia. Yesterday we were just passing this boab tree in Perth`s famous Kings Park, when we had the sudden thougt that we should continue our Aussie blog and tell all these interesting stories again. So thank you for visiting and welcome at ZigZagaustralia.com again!!!

Since we posted the last article here one and a half years ago, there has been a big rush in our lives. Apart from an incredible Aussie outback tour in South Australia and in the Red Centre, nothing was relevant to this blog. We went to France and soon had the vision that we should get away from there. So we did, fortunately we had the opportunity and we came back to OZ. All in all, our last year was mainly about moving around the world (twice), which is just ridiculous, I know…

boab 225x300 All roads lead to Perth | Minden út Perthbe vezetAs ridiculous as this boab tree in Kings Park. It looks strange with its large trunk and it rises highly above us. It is standing at one of the best lookout points of Kings Park with a very nice view on the Swan river. As you look at it, you immediately think that this lovely tree should have a story. And you are right.

This boab tree has a looong story. It is actually an ancient tree with its 750 years!!!! And what makes it even more special is the fact that has been living here for only two and a half years. Before July 2008 it was living in Warmun (Kimberley region, WA), and the Gija aboriginal community living there gave it to the Nyoongar people, the traditional owners of Kings Park.

Boab trees can live up to 2000 years, so hopefully this tree will survive this replanting story. It is 14 m tall and weights appr. 36 tonnes. Its diameter is 2.5 m, so the trunk is so wide that you need 4 or 5 people to give him a perfect hug.
So it is not hard to imagine how difficult it was to move this tree across Western Australia, which is as big as half Europe. It had to travel 3200 km altogether to Perth on a 25 m long truck trailer and needed two lanes of the road.
` The project is probably a world first for a mature tree, authorities say`.

This video shows how this journey happened:

Source:
WA Today
Channel 9

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