The Ford museum

Last Sinterklaas, Simone gave me tickets to the Ford museum. They have a temp. exhibition with special Mustangs to honour the 50th anniversary of this iconic car. Today, we went there :-)

It was mad busy. Not. I didn't mind. It's better for taking photos.

This place houses the largest, privately owned, collection of Ford's in the whole world. Pretty cool!

Right at the start there is a (Spanish) replica of Ford's first automobile.

I love the engine on it. It's so incredibly simple.

It's actually really cool because you can identify all the parts so well. Mind the differential next to the wheel. Very nice.

The transmission was made of wood. Awesome :-)

Loads of oldies here.

There's also a section on Lincoln's, which are Ford owned.

More of the same?

There were quite a few "educationals" which I liked a lot.

Popcorn van.

Whiskey truck that was owned by Al Capone's company.

Petrol truck.

Nice writing on all those old cars.

And then there was the section of Mustangs.

This is Voorend's dragster. Very nice.

'71 Hardtop. Very nice but after a while the checkers get a bit too much to look at.

Shelby from 2000-something. Beast of car but where are the curves?

Older and newer.

This 'stang was truly gorgeous.

Older sportsroof. Very nice!

'90's pony.

This was my favourite Mustang though. A '71 Mach 1.

It's the model that started the fire for me.

Great car. Beautiful colour too.

First you see this...

... and then this ;-)

I had a lovely time looking at everything. Lunch before and coffee and apple pie after with Simone and Milan. Good times.

The wagamama

Today starts with a plate-winner: "Porker". A porker would be a person that sounds like a pig more or less. Charming, innit?

And we saw "Lewis 5".

"Donelle" was also there.

We visited a little town called Kalamunda today. The girls went to a market and Maurice and I tested the local pub. That pub was fantastic. No pictures unfortunately but they brew a lot of their own beers with imported ingredients from Germany. Their beers get brewed according to the german "reinheits-gebot" which is an old rule instatiated by King Wilhelm IV that says that beer can only be brewed with certain "pure" ingredients. This was to protect the german people from nasty immitations or dangerous substances. The "Dark ale" served here was the best beer I have ever tasted. Unfortunately not for sale anywhere else...

The huge cart is called a Whim it seems. used to carry big tree trunks.

Like the Whim, an old locomotive including the station and many other old buildings from the town of Kalamunda have been kept and moved into their little town museum. Maurice and I went here to have a look how these people lived here about 30-100 years ago.

The locomotive was build in Glasgow in the year 1897. It was in remarkably good shape.

This little cottage belonged to one of the first settlers of Kalamunda.

Back in Perth we visited the local Wagamama noodle restaurant. Being big fans of this world-wide chain we had to eat there once we found out there was one in Perth. There's none in Adelaide unfortunately.

As should be clear by this picture and the previous, you can eat with chopsticks if you like.... Or you can entertain the people around you with them.

I was happy with number 71 of the menu: Chicken katsu curry. De-li-cious.

This photo was made especially for Placido, our favourite waiter at Waga's Amsterdam.
"KNIGHTSY" was at the scene. Bit of a funny name if you ask me.

In the evening Maurice and I played some poker. First Texas Hold'm no limit and later some kind of Irish poker or more like "Murphy" poker as it was often played in the Murphy family on many social occasions.