A trip down to Fremantle for the weekend market as well as for the Sunday live music at Fremantle Arts Centre (do check out this website for more information on the music Sunday).
If you think it is hard to travel in Perth without a car, you are wrong! We took the Railway Train from Perth to Fremantle and it only took us half and hour or so to reach. Personally I think that in Perth, if you planned your itinerary carefully, it would be awesome to simply take their public transport instead of doing a self-drive - you can relax and really enjoy the monent. For public transport, you can get the single ticket or like us (as recommended by the information staff at the train station), get a Family Rider ticket at AUD11.70 (for 2 adults and 5 children) and you can take any bus and train for the day. As easy as that and you would not need to worry too much about the transport fare. A multi-trip ticket for a single adult cost AUD11.70 as well. SO, worth it, right?
If you think it is hard to travel in Perth without a car, you are wrong! We took the Railway Train from Perth to Fremantle and it only took us half and hour or so to reach. Personally I think that in Perth, if you planned your itinerary carefully, it would be awesome to simply take their public transport instead of doing a self-drive - you can relax and really enjoy the monent. For public transport, you can get the single ticket or like us (as recommended by the information staff at the train station), get a Family Rider ticket at AUD11.70 (for 2 adults and 5 children) and you can take any bus and train for the day. As easy as that and you would not need to worry too much about the transport fare. A multi-trip ticket for a single adult cost AUD11.70 as well. SO, worth it, right?
Breakfast at Fremantle was super random. We did not plan or research much on the good food. We simply walked along Cappuccino Strip and found a crowded cafe for breakfast - we guessed we will not go wrong if there were people in the shop. So we ended up at Gino's Cafe. I ordered the Eggs Benedict: poached eggs ham hollandaise sauce on muffins and added extra servings of mushrooms - it was really a big portion but well, nice food, nice ambiance! Top up with a flat white made a great breakfast!
After breakfast, we headed to the Fremantle Market - it was not what we thought it would be. In my own world, I thought it would be like a big big market like that Victoria Market in Melbourne. Or maybe we did not really explore much in the market to find the beauty of it!
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| Sights of Fremantle |
Next up, we went for a Fremantle Prison tour and it was quite interesting to see this heritage building built by the convicts back then. There are many tours organized and we just gotten the "Doing Time" tour as it was the next available timing. A very informative tour where the guide brought us to the different parts of the prison, and explaining to us the history, stories and the evolution behind it Not sure why, but been to 3 cities in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth), I visited the prisons in all three!
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| Fremantle Prison |
Like Perth City, Fremantle has its own Fremantle Cats (Central Area Transit service) bus. It is a free bus service that takes you round Fremantle and you can hop on and off to see the different parts of the city. However, there is a timing to it. So stick to the timing and you will be fine. From the prison, we took the bus to the Fremantle Arts Centre. There are a few rooms of art pieces that we can see for free. But the main highlight for the Arts Centre that Sunday was the free music. Australians really know how to enjoy life. While listening to free music, they can mingle and have a picnic - be it sitting on bench and tables or on the picnic mat. I love this type of freedom. Like them, we took the chairs provided and enjoyed a few songs! Thanks for the free music!
Next up from the Arts Centre, we went to Woolstores Shopping Centre to take a look. A very small one and maybe it was a Sunday, not many shops were opened. But the supermarket was! We love supermarkets and there, we bought food and souvenirs. We had wanted to visited the supermarket for the past 2 days but they were all closed before we could make it! Happy! But remember to bring a recycling bag or get a carrier when doing your marketing - they will charge for plastic bags!
After much shopping, we went to San Churros for tea break - Australia's favourite chocolate cafe, serving the best Spanish chocolate in town. Th churros were nice but they got mixed up for my drink. Good service on their part though that they offered to let me take away my correct drink or offer to return us the money. This is what I love about the Australians - service before everything!
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| Arty side of Fremantle |
As Fremantle is a fishing port and thus, we went to the Harbour Port for Fish and Chips - Kailis Fish Market Café. As we wanted to try other seafood, we ordered a combo set.The food was really fresh and nice! The fish was tender an you could 'taste the sea'! Trust me - furthermore, you get great view while dining. Love it!
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| The sun, the sea, the fresh seafood! |
Do remember that the train back and fro Fremantle has timings or rather the public transport be it bus or train in Perth has timing and they are super on the time. So please do not miss it, otherwise you would have to wait for the next train. So just be at the train station 5 minutes before - I think that is pretty safe timing! Well, we missed it and had to wait for half an hour before the next train arrived. But we were too tired to make further move that we just sat at the train station while waiting. A nice calm way to end off the pretty busy day!
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