Well AC is there, we installed a Perth, Western Australia, Australia . We even had to re-flatten our van in the state of Western Australia after some modifications and inspections. But the question you will ask yourself: "Until when are you there?" The answer is here somewhere. 
So here a few weeks now that we have started work at " Wood and Grieve Engineers . Karo got the job she wanted with the same coy. me but in structure. She was thrilled! Our co. We were well received until now with lots of little extras like: Pizza and beer for all Friday 5am; paid training program for court 12D (design engineering); sponsorship (eg, they gave us a sweater Stretch bike because it goes to the job by bike), champagne to celebrate, candy for the holidays to all, etc.. It smells a full cash nose! Having found this job, the next step was to find ourselves a little cocoon. Our van Gertrude was particularly tempting not complicated but it 
bad things in terms of hygiene, food preparation, sleeping and meeting place of friends (es). Sooner or later we would have looked weird. Karo has managed to convince me 
we had to find a flat . Even better than that, after a visit from two apart, it fell on a nice lady who rented a house with land, garden, covered parking for our van. Imagine there's even electricity and hot water! WOW! GRAND LUXE. All for a total of AUS $ 230 per week ... The only problem is that it came completely empty.
There's something similar here in Montreal classified ads, the newspaper "Quokka". This is a newspaper or it's free to ask for an announcement of things second hand. He goes out every Thursday and is full of gadgets in there. We started with the "Free" and things in this section disappeared like hotcakes. It was not too much time on Thursday morning to pick up the items so we quickly forget this section to pass a "garage sales". There are at least 50 garage sales per weekend and for most people, they are moving and want to get rid of most of their things so it was easy to dealer. It has picked up plenty of cooking gear for peanuts, a washing machine for $ 50, table with 6 chairs for $ 110 old style, a television set with TV for $ 30, small tables for $ 25, a bed frame for $ 50 (it was decided to use the mattress of the van) and a fridge for $ 40. It finally uses the microwave to the van which was used only for storage until now. I am glad it is not now because at the beginning, I wanted out of my sight ... Loss of space. In short, we have a completely empty room till date and we are not unhappy in our 4 1 / 2.
Well, FAQUE was a job, an apartment (house), and furniture. It was believed to be correct but not. We work in a box the engineers worse we troll with the same clothes for a year ... A shopping it imposes. Two weekend that it took but now at least we did not have to wear the same outfit twice in one week! Since the beginning of the trip we hung out with our own kit for an interview and look ... less filthy. It worked but then what do you do on Monday morning when the time comes to return it because it's all you got to own it? Hey! Hey!
And that when we say two weekends, it was not just done that anyway. With the ocean right next door, it's hard not to go there and we had good right and short of sceance surf. Here are some pictures from the beach in Cottesloe, a suburb of Perth. It was super nice but small as the pictures show. 
bad things in terms of hygiene, food preparation, sleeping and meeting place of friends (es). Sooner or later we would have looked weird. Karo has managed to convince me 
we had to find a flat . Even better than that, after a visit from two apart, it fell on a nice lady who rented a house with land, garden, covered parking for our van. Imagine there's even electricity and hot water! WOW! GRAND LUXE. All for a total of AUS $ 230 per week ... The only problem is that it came completely empty. There's something similar here in Montreal classified ads, the newspaper "Quokka". This is a newspaper or it's free to ask for an announcement of things second hand. He goes out every Thursday and is full of gadgets in there. We started with the "Free" and things in this section disappeared like hotcakes. It was not too much time on Thursday morning to pick up the items so we quickly forget this section to pass a "garage sales". There are at least 50 garage sales per weekend and for most people, they are moving and want to get rid of most of their things so it was easy to dealer. It has picked up plenty of cooking gear for peanuts, a washing machine for $ 50, table with 6 chairs for $ 110 old style, a television set with TV for $ 30, small tables for $ 25, a bed frame for $ 50 (it was decided to use the mattress of the van) and a fridge for $ 40. It finally uses the microwave to the van which was used only for storage until now. I am glad it is not now because at the beginning, I wanted out of my sight ... Loss of space. In short, we have a completely empty room till date and we are not unhappy in our 4 1 / 2.
Well, FAQUE was a job, an apartment (house), and furniture. It was believed to be correct but not. We work in a box the engineers worse we troll with the same clothes for a year ... A shopping it imposes. Two weekend that it took but now at least we did not have to wear the same outfit twice in one week! Since the beginning of the trip we hung out with our own kit for an interview and look ... less filthy. It worked but then what do you do on Monday morning when the time comes to return it because it's all you got to own it? Hey! Hey!
And that when we say two weekends, it was not just done that anyway. With the ocean right next door, it's hard not to go there and we had good right and short of sceance surf. Here are some pictures from the beach in Cottesloe, a suburb of Perth. It was super nice but small as the pictures show. 
Good, the job, the apartment, furniture, clothing ... What's next? bikes! to leave the car behind, finally do the exercise and of course, less polluting. Luckily, our landlord had a bike that did anything in a small shed behind her house so she has brought us. A road bike in very good condition, just like the one I leave in Montreal, Etienne kindly give me (too big for me but does the job). Being too large for Karo, I'm grabs and since, it gave me the taste has to roll back day after day. The guys from the job I have embarked on a project of training to cover the distance between Perth Busselton in a day, 241Km. In short, one morning last weekend, I rolled 85, 120, 150 and 85km with an average of plus or minus 30 km / h. Enough to burn me. Finally! Karo for his 
share has been less fortunate and had to look in the newspaper to find him a bike and it is not to his liking: too heavy, slow, big wheels. A mountain bike is not for the mountains but still it does the job. Rather than taking the bus or train to get to the job in 1 hour, it does in cycling and it takes him half an hour. Vive le Bike! (We speak not of rainy days and cold morning ...) Karo says: I for one am very happy despite the rain biking in the morning. Strangely it is the wind with the cold mornings that bothers me the most. Not always obvious, but hey, there's a good hot shower waiting for me at the office later. Well yes, it's really cool. It remains for me to find me a locker to avoid trainer: my clothes for the day, my dryer, my brush, my Titus udder creams and soaps (I tell you it's not easy being a tite princess).
Among all these stories, it has allowed an exit from the weekend has 
Margaret River ... 4h30 drive south just to go surf the real waves. There was a storm and waves of 5m were announced ... YESSSSS! We'll go see AC Karo huh huh!? O) So Saturday morning I get up a 6hAM, will make a trek 85km bike (come completely screwed because it's been months that has done nothing) 
worse after we hit the road. Unfortunately, on arriving there, I forgot to look at the predictions of wind and wind was a totally negative 
... noonnnnn. All the beautiful waves collapsed and people were kite-surfing instead. The scenery was quite beautiful by cons. In the evening, watching my little guide to surfing, I found a place where the waves would be a shelter from the wind and the next morning would be great. It has won the 8-9am drive limit but is certainly not remake this mistake! 
share has been less fortunate and had to look in the newspaper to find him a bike and it is not to his liking: too heavy, slow, big wheels. A mountain bike is not for the mountains but still it does the job. Rather than taking the bus or train to get to the job in 1 hour, it does in cycling and it takes him half an hour. Vive le Bike! (We speak not of rainy days and cold morning ...) Karo says: I for one am very happy despite the rain biking in the morning. Strangely it is the wind with the cold mornings that bothers me the most. Not always obvious, but hey, there's a good hot shower waiting for me at the office later. Well yes, it's really cool. It remains for me to find me a locker to avoid trainer: my clothes for the day, my dryer, my brush, my Titus udder creams and soaps (I tell you it's not easy being a tite princess). 
Among all these stories, it has allowed an exit from the weekend has 
Margaret River ... 4h30 drive south just to go surf the real waves. There was a storm and waves of 5m were announced ... YESSSSS! We'll go see AC Karo huh huh!? O) So Saturday morning I get up a 6hAM, will make a trek 85km bike (come completely screwed because it's been months that has done nothing) 
worse after we hit the road. Unfortunately, on arriving there, I forgot to look at the predictions of wind and wind was a totally negative 
... noonnnnn. All the beautiful waves collapsed and people were kite-surfing instead. The scenery was quite beautiful by cons. In the evening, watching my little guide to surfing, I found a place where the waves would be a shelter from the wind and the next morning would be great. It has won the 8-9am drive limit but is certainly not remake this mistake! 
In terms of job in Perth Gab version, now it's been a month since we worked, I 
'm not very delighted. Here are the views of my office with my boss on my left. I was hired as an engineer and I work as project managers. They toil and trouble to fill my schedule, they give me simple or flat spots (such estimates, calculations of surfaces, volumes, etc..). It is obvious that things are done differently here especially considering they have no size as the gel in Canada. What we do in civil engineering in our box, this is called the subdivision. A big big shot bought a big plot of land, we hired and is the jackpot divided into small lots, one installs the various services (electricity, telephone, gas, and sanitary sewers, water mains) worse after the Big Lots sells shot 4 times the price he bought it. Real estate here has quadrupled since the last 10 years! It's just sick. I had to do 
some site visits in recent times and I admit that it saddens me to see what we do. It's hard to believe in what you do when you see it. Watch a big field is clear for all to put retaining walls so that people can have their property with their beautiful little garden and everything ... necessary but not me. There is not much green space for ideas and for sustainable development which I believe. People here do not really believe in "global warming", do not recycle too (1 of 2), and we sometimes see people throw out the window as if their spirits there was no tomorrow. We will therefore toffe ca worse until Christmas to continue our journey afterwards.
'm not very delighted. Here are the views of my office with my boss on my left. I was hired as an engineer and I work as project managers. They toil and trouble to fill my schedule, they give me simple or flat spots (such estimates, calculations of surfaces, volumes, etc..). It is obvious that things are done differently here especially considering they have no size as the gel in Canada. What we do in civil engineering in our box, this is called the subdivision. A big big shot bought a big plot of land, we hired and is the jackpot divided into small lots, one installs the various services (electricity, telephone, gas, and sanitary sewers, water mains) worse after the Big Lots sells shot 4 times the price he bought it. Real estate here has quadrupled since the last 10 years! It's just sick. I had to do 
some site visits in recent times and I admit that it saddens me to see what we do. It's hard to believe in what you do when you see it. Watch a big field is clear for all to put retaining walls so that people can have their property with their beautiful little garden and everything ... necessary but not me. There is not much green space for ideas and for sustainable development which I believe. People here do not really believe in "global warming", do not recycle too (1 of 2), and we sometimes see people throw out the window as if their spirits there was no tomorrow. We will therefore toffe ca worse until Christmas to continue our journey afterwards. 
Boulot in Perth, version Karo: Well I'll try to be a bit more positive for once 
(not out), but say it did not work took two days I was (unlike Gab ) completely overwhelmed. I'm putting senior designer on a project that is about to turn sour. In short everyone in my department wished me good luck. I tell you that AC was not very obvious that the way to present drawings is very different, quite different methods and also a big one year without touching auto-cad (drawing program is used also in Quebec, at least ac) and everything is in English. I also find it quite difficult not having the resources to respond to my questions. I mean by that the average age of people in the department can have is almost 35 years for 
senior engineers from early thirties to others and that the vast majority of designers have about 2 years experiments. I am nearly the 3rd person with the most experience in the design industry structure and ca is my 6 years of experience and not in Australia. Scary to know how it is that nothing is falling again! But hey it makes me make decisions more than I was not accustomed to. It gives me confidence in me (that Helene will enjoy it). It changes not only that a lot of things to learn along with not much time to finish projects. I feel that my days are already over and I have not accomplished much. One big, I miss YOU THE GANG. I am a little sad too. I started to feel that far and that seems HOUSE family and friend (s) I miss terribly. So I think I too will opt to continue the trip after Christmas. I hope they will not be too upset. We'll see. 
The Last weekend, we had a visit from Red Bull Air Race , an event which begins at the global level since 2005. It's the equivalent of Formula 1 but by plane and everyone 
in the same course at the same time! Pete is completely in the head! Well no, c't'une joke! Not everyone at the same time. They make laps (only) which is above water. They spend between huge inflated buoys in tissues and they must pass between the buoys horizontally and vertically in blue red buoys. 10 second penalty if you hang a buoy, 3 seconds if you cross a corner buoys. It's gear that are full of tricks and they are super clever. It will probably grow in popularity in the coming years (www.redbullairrace.com)! All, free. It was pretty impressive 
. As intermission we were treated to a military plane F/A18 Hornet. It tells you nothing? Normal. Scary, is ultra fast, ultra loud and 
extremely powerful. He made some acrobatics to finish his show, he turns directly to heaven without stopping until we see almost no ... Really powerful. I made a little video for you, they had 7 MB, so I hope you are patient if you are not high speed ... So here are the latest stories from Australian Gab and Karo. All that to say that we started to miss our dear Canada, friends, family, mountains, snow and the great variety of activities that the 4 seasons can bring. The plan? We picked up some more money, you loose the job, continuing our great Australian tour, buy plane tickets to return to Vancouver for April-May 2009. The Karo will be a walk in Western Canada to return to Montreal or tranquilos I'm best man for my dude Jay who married Marielle June. It will be nice! Hasta la proxima
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