🚀 go-pugleaf

6. December 1996

I tore myself away from the computer to go to the markets at
Fremantle. They still hold a certain facination for my wife and I that
no other market can copy.

Fremantle has changed drastically. Most places you just get 1 hour
parking for $ 1.20 and worse still you have a maximum of just 2 hours.
By the time you have walked to your destination and returned you are
lucky to have 1 hour for your errand.

Now if you are stupid enough to decide to have lunch in the Esplanade
Lounge then time is of the essence.

It took 18 minutes to have 2 glasses of guinness served and 35 minutes
to have 2 croissants with chicken served at the table. 

The temperature of the meal was abysmal, even the french fries were
cold indicating that the meals must have been standing for some
considerable time in a draught - still I suppose that blew the flies
away. It really is well overdue to ginger the staff at that place up a
little. That kind of service can not do the tourist trade any good at
all.

My advise is therefore leave Fremantle and the Esplanade alone and get
into a shopping centre somewhere in the northern suburbs of Perth.
Parking is free and without time limit and meals are served very
quickly.

Borge Pedersen