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A little more of Freo for you

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Freo is what the locals call Fremantle, I heard it everywhere as I wandered around, young people on their phones, "we're in Freo , meet us at..." The first place I went to was the Fremantle Visitor Centre to look at all the brochures and decide what to go and see. There is a park right next door to the Visitor Centre.... with a few bronze statues in it. Sculptures? this was my favourite, it's a good one, yes? The artist creating his art. There are some smaller sculptures... a tortoise ... a couple of frogs ... and John Curtin is there too. I had no idea who John Curtin was, we all know I don't take notice of politics or politicians. I know now of course, having read the information on the base and can't help wishing our current leaders had some of that "inspiring national leadership" in them. The park also has these... painted bollards. Aren't they so much nicer to look at than plain concrete? I wande...