We woke up early and had a breakfast courtesy of the B&B, before heading to Belmont. From what we have read, Belmont Sunday Market is the biggest and offers a lot more items.
The whole journey went smooth. Not so many people and cars can be seen everywhere, maybe it because of Sunday. It is around 20km away so I figured it might take around 40 minutes drive. One thing about driving in Perth, you must always comply to the speed limit because the speed trap is everywhere. You don't want your holiday to be ruined by a speeding ticket, do you?
Anyway, we arrived at Belmont around 10:30 am. Little that I know the Sunday Market will be ended earlier that day at 11:30 am, so we got approximately 1 hour to shop.
Happy doing her favourite thing.
In the end we managed to grab a few things. I managed to grab a jigsaw puzzles, few toys, DVD, a vase, quite a number of stuffs considering we got only 1 hour to shop. But I wasn't satisfied, 1 hour of shopping definitely not enough!
Next destination, E Shed Market in Fremantle. It is a good place to get some souvenirs.
Well before we went to this trip, I told Edrian an office mate of mine that I'm going to Perth for a vacation. And he told me he's been there before and he didn't like it much. Reason? Too many Malaysian.
God damn you Edrian you were right. When we were in E Shed Market, I didn't feel like being in a foreign country at all. So many Malaysian were busy buying stuffs, and the sellers, most of them were Indonesian. The best thing is most of the stuffs were made in China. Awesome. I didn't flew 6500 km just to buy a product which made in China.
Anyhoo, we managed to grab a few things, you know, usual things that you give away as a souvenir, fridge magnets, key chains, t-shirts.
By the time we finished, it was already 4 pm. For the next plan we were supposed to go to the Marine Museum nearby, but it wasn't enough time since the museum will be closed at 5 pm. So we decided to explore the town.
The town. More like a ghost town to me.
People can hardly be seen driving or walking around. Where the hell all the people go?
Yes, we were curious that much. Where the hell all the Perth people go?
We walked a little bit further towards Fremantle Market, and there you go, there were so many people there. Apparently Perth people will go here during the weekend. Perhaps there were a lot of bars and restaurants is the reason.
You see the people on the first level? They were actually in a bar, and they threw money to the street performer below.
Fremantle Market is, how do I put it? Hmm, is like our own Central Market. Big building with many stalls in it. People sold variety items from greeting cards to pen. You can also find some street performer entertaining people at the outside of the building. There were a lot of restaurants and bars along the corridor, and you can find all sort of people from families to teenagers enjoying with their friends there.
Inside the market
Street performers entertaining the crowd outside.
Restaurants and bars along the corridor.
Not much purchasing were made though. It was already 5 pm, we were pretty exhausted from the whole day of walking, so we decided to go back to the hotel.
Walked by the park on the way back to the hotel.
We had our dinner in Fremantle before heading back to the hotel. You see, there were actually 2 outlets in Fremantle (Cicirellos and Kailis) who claimed they were the best fish and chips in the town. We decided to try both and see who is better. Last night we tried Cicirellos and tonight gonna be Kailis' turn.
Well, the fish and chips weren't so good. It fish and chips anyway, they all taste the same to me.
We then headed back to the hotel. Tomorrow gonna be a long journey to the south.
The entrance to the University of Notre Dame. The whole bunch of shop lots along the streets is being occupied by the university. Thank God the students were on leave so it is easy to look for a parking spot.
End of Day 3.
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