What a beautiful spot Esperance is. We are spending a few days here, and besides this morning, the weather has been perfect. Actually, unlike the North Coast of NSW, we have been having great weather for all our trip so far. We have enjoyed plenty of sight seeing here in Esperance as well as bike riding and walking. Our camp site is on the beach next to the bike track, so very handy. Our neighbours are all Italian decent (3 italian groups…except 1 wife maggie) so have had a great time. The other night we all got together…lots of fun including italian nibblies (dried broad beans) and sweets (Taralli). We will be keeping in touch with Vince and Anna who live in Freemantle, when we arrive in Perth.

We enjoyed going to the movies with Vince and Anna the other day to see “The Iron Lady” starring Meryl Streep. Very good movie…In The Iron Lady the central figure is no fiction. Margaret Thatcher is one of the most famous, most controversial living Englishwoman, a reclusive widow now known to be in poor health and not entirely in command of her mental faculties, but who still hovers over all our lives. Virtually everything and everybody in the movie is shown through her distorted vision as her faulty memory calls up her past. Thatcher was a tough lady !!!