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Weekend in Perth, Western Australia.

Weekend in Perth Itinerary – How to Spend 2 Days in the Western Australian Capital

Our weekend in Perth itinerary will give you a good taste of Australia’s most far-flung capital city, famed for its fantastic beaches, fabulous food and wine, and enviable lifestyle. Obviously 48 hours isn’t enough time in the sunny Western Australian capital but two days in Perth is better than one!

Our weekend in Perth itinerary will give you a great introduction to the Western Australian capital. Located in the south west of Australia, Perth has a Mediterranean climate, stunning sandy beaches, an attractive riverside setting, and eternally clear blue skies – or so it seems.

If you’re travelling from the east coast or even overseas, a weekend in Perth is well worth your time and the effort it takes to get there. A big part of Perth’s charm is its vibe – casual and easygoing, even when going glam, it’s an unpretentious city whose inhabitants prefer beachside barbecues and picnics in its many parks to fancy fine dining meals.

Perth still has a sophisticated side – evidenced in its swanky high-end hotels, outstanding restaurants and chic bars – and it’s surprisingly cosmopolitan, given its remoteness from… well, everywhere. But it’s Perth’s outdoors – and the locals’ love of the outdoors – that is a big appeal.

With a compact city centre, Perth is easy to navigate and get around, provided you do a little a planning. Here’s our weekend in Perth itinerary to help you.

Weekend in Perth Itinerary for Two Days in Western Australia’s Sunny Capital

Weekend in Perth Itinerary – Our Top Hotel Picks

If this is your first time spending a weekend in Perth, stay in the city centre, which is home to some of Perth’s best restaurants, cafes and bars, along with Perth’s transport hub, so you can easily access the city’s gorgeous beaches and the beautiful Swan River with ease.

Western Australia’s mining boom may be barely rumbling these days, but Perth’s hotel scene has exploded. See our post on Perth’s best boutique hotels for a more detailed guide to Perth city accommodation, but these are our top picks if you only have a weekend in Perth.

QT Perth

The QT Perth has a playful sense of style and casual glamour that is right at home in laidback Perth. Drawing inspiration from the rugged beauty of Western Australia’s landscapes, flora and fauna, there’s wildflower printed wallpaper, Jarrah floorboards and a colour scheme that gives a nod to the gemstones and minerals that made the state so wealthy. That design carries through beautifully to the hotel’s Santini Bar and Grill (pictured above) and the stunning rooftop bar with Swan River vistas.

COMO The Treasury

Located in the remodelled 19th century State Buildings, Singaporean hotelier Christina Ong’s COMO The Treasury was designed by Australian architect Kerry Hill. The 48 enormous, elegant, light-filled rooms and suites are minimalist in style, with lofty ceilings and balconies with views over Stirling Gardens or Cathedral Square. The rooftop restaurant Wildflower offers Swan River views and cuisine driven by delicious Western Australian produce while downstairs is David Thompson’s buzzy Thai food eatery, Long Chim (see below).

Weekend in Perth Itinerary – How to Spend 48 Hours in Perth

Follow our weekend in Perth itinerary to the letter and we guarantee you’ll have a weekend in Perth to remember. We strongly recommend that you book restaurants ahead of your trip.

Friday Drinks

Kick off your weekend in Perth itinerary with drinks at one of Perth’s rooftop bars. If you’re staying at QT Perth, you don’t have far to go. Slip up to The Rooftop and sink into a sleek low-slung chair to drink in sweeping views of the city and Swan River and outstanding cocktails. Order the Concrete Jungle with Bacardi 8 Rum, Campari, charred pineapple syrup, fresh lime, and pink grapefruit soda. Henry’s Rooftop Bar at The Reveley (Eastern Promenade, 901 Riverside Drive, Perth) on Elizabeth Quay offers river vistas and its white wicker chairs make for a fine spot to gaze at the sunset as you savour some freshly shucked oysters or munch on Shanghai fries with togarashi salt and yuzu mayo. After, hike up back up to Prince Lane (356 Murray Street, Perth), a three-storey pub with each floor boasting a different personality, and zip up to the Rooftop Bar, which feels like a friend’s jazzed-up back yard with its sofas strewn with cushions, garden benches and potted plants. The Lamington Martini with Malibu, Kahlua, cream, dark chocolate, and toasted coconut is an apt choice.

Friday Dinner

There are few better ways to begin a weekend in Perth itinerary than with a feast of David Thompson’s authentic Thai street food at Long Chim (Corner St Georges Terrace and Barrack Street, Perth), which will probably be the best Thai food you’ll find outside Thailand. Located in the cellar of the State Buildings, Long Chim has murals by the likes of Thai street artists Alex Face, Gong and Diamond One enlivening the walls, craft beers, a long list of local wines, and killer cocktails. Try the mandarin and lemongrass negroni. If you’re two or more, order the Maa Long Chim menu – a selection of salads, soups, curries and stir fries with rice to share – or sample some of Western Australia’s finest produce, grilled over wood and charcoal, such as Fremantle octopus, Exmouth prawns, Busselton squid, or whole Geraldton Silver Whiting. On Fridays from 6pm to late, there are DJs and Thai eats in the Long Chim courtyard.

Saturday Morning

Perth has a temperate climate and its locals are very active and outdoorsy so soaking up the sunshine and gazing up at those clear blue skies should figure heavily on the first day of your weekend in Perth itinerary. Focus exploring Perth’s historic city centre and nearby Northbridge, just across the railway bridge. You could simply wander around the city centre, taking in bucolic Stirling Gardens, part of Western Australia’s first botanical park, and sprawling King’s Park, perfect for a long leisurely stroll. Down on the Swan River, you could hop on a ferry from Barrack Street Jetty to Mends Street Wharf where South Perth’s Sir James Mitchell Park has stunning vistas of Perth’s skyline.

Or you could sign up for a guided city walk, such as the Perth City Walking Tour, a Morning Tea Tour, or an Art and Cultural Walking Tour. Alternatively, go solo and do a Perth self-guided audio tour or use our self-guided walk around Perth. This starts in the heritage area, taking in handsome buildings dating back to the mid 1800s, all beautifully preserved or restored, such as the Perth Town Hall (dating to 1867), known for its clock tower, the Central Government Offices (1874), Government House (1859), the Supreme Court (1902) and the adjacent Old Court House, dating back to 1836. Our walk then takes you across the railway line to Northbridge, where you can grab some lunch.

Saturday Lunch

Perth’s entertainment district and arts hub, Northbridge is also home to Perth’s Chinatown, centred along William Street, which is peppered with Chinese restaurants, Korean BBQ joints, Vietnamese noodle houses, and Asian supermarkets, grocery shops, and bakeries. Look for the glistening roast ducks (prepared hourly!) in the window at Good Fortune Roast Duck House, where we recommend you order the classic Peking Duck, served with the crispy skin and succulent meat on pancakes, with spring onions, cucumbers and Hoi Sin sauce. If you’re hungry, also try the Peking Duck San Choy Bow – crispy lettuce cups filled with shredded duck.

Saturday Afternoon

Browse Northbridge’s vintage clothes stores and bookshops on your way back toward the city to the vibrant arts precinct, centred on and around James Street Mall. Home to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Western Australian Museum and the State Library of Western Australia, it’s also the address of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, which houses the world’s finest Aboriginal art collection. You can easily spend an hour or two here taking in the breathtaking art. Even better, take one of the art gallery’s guided tours; have an early lunch as most are offered from 1-2pm and the subject changes daily.

A weekend in Perth itinerary must include at least one picnic in a park. Before you leave Northbridge, drop into Kakulas Bros (183 William Street, Northbridge), established in 1929, and pick up some olives, artisanal cheeses and charcuterie. Then head to Vintage Cellars (891-893 Hay Street, Perth) for some takeaway craft brews or a bottle of Western Australian wine, and hop on the free Blue CAT bus to Kings Park. The bus stops right outside King’s Park from where it’s just a few minutes’ walk to a plethora of perfect picnic spots. With its abundant lawns, lofty trees, plenty of birdlife, beautiful wildflowers, and sweeping views of Perth’s stunning skyline and the picturesque Swan River, Kings Park is a wonderful spot to toast to a perfect day to start your weekend in Perth. You can grab a back bus to the city centre from just down the hill on the opposite side of the road.

Saturday Dinner

A weekend in Perth itinerary wouldn’t be complete without a meal at the city’s beloved Lalla Rookh Bar and Eating House (Lower ground level, 77 St Georges Terrace, Perth), a local favourite widely considered by many to be Perth’s best restaurant. This modern Italian restaurant has a seasonal menu, inspired by head chef Alexandra Haynes’ travel through Italy. Order the chef’s ‘il Capo’ (‘let us feed you’) menu, a series of six sharing plates of seasonal specials, which usually features a handmade house pasta and exquisite Western Australian produce, such as Shark Bay king prawns, Wagin quails and Hamlet Farm’s beautiful Berkshire Pork.

Sunday Morning

It’s not a weekend in Perth without a morning in historic, waterfront Fremantle – or ‘Freo’ as it’s affectionately called by locals. You could catch the train from Perth’s city centre to Fremantle, but it’s more fun to arrive by boat. Take the Swan River one-way cruise from Perth to Fremantle, departing from the Barrack Street Jetty. It’s a very pleasant way to spend 70 minutes, especially on a sunny Perth day.

Once at Victoria Quay, head across the railway to the heritage district and along High Street, Market Street and South Terrace or Cappuccino Strip – named after the Italian cafés dotting the main drag – to the lively weekend Fremantle Markets (South Terrace, Fremantle; Sat & Sun 8am-6pm), in a Victorian-era market hall dating to 1898. Some 150 stalls sell everything from fresh local produce (and picnic supplies) to homemade confectionary, handicrafts and gifts, such as scented candles, natural soaps etc.

If Fremantle Markets has inspired you to do some shopping, stroll through the backstreets to Fremantle’s West End, where, amongst the handsome old façades and big corner pubs with wrought iron balconies, you’ll discover chic boutiques, bookshops, concept stores, antique shops, and art galleries worth a browse. See this Fremantle post for more West End tips.

Sunday Lunch

We would be remiss if we didn’t include a feast of fish and chips overlooking the water at Fremantle on our weekend in Perth itinerary. Fremantle’s fishing boat harbour is home to over 400 working vessels and leisure boats, along with seafood restaurants, fish and chip shops, cafés, and bars, and a seafood meal here is another quintessential weekend in Perth experience. Joe’s Fish Shack, Cicerellos and Kailis Fish Market, founded in 1928 by the current owners’ grandfather, get busy on weekends, so arrive before noon to snag a table. If you’re out of luck, duck into nearby Little Creatures for pizza and Australian craft beers. Alternatively, gather picnic supplies at Freo Markets and the Fremantle branch of Kakulas Sister (29-31 Market Street), and amble over to Esplanade Park, near the fishing boat harbour, to enjoy lunch under the Norfolk Island pines.

Sunday Afternoon

You could easily spend the afternoon in Fremantle, visiting the excellent museums, including the fascinating Round House, superb Western Australian Maritime Museum and Shipwrecks Galleries, and spooky Fremantle Prison. Or you could head over to lovely Rottnest Island – or ‘Rotto’ as the locals call it. For many, a weekend in Perth isn’t complete without some time in the sunshine on Rotto. Return to Victoria Quay to board the Rottnest Island high-speed ferry for the 30-minute ride to the island. We recommend buying your Rottnest Island round-trip ferry tickets from Fremantle here in advance to avoid missing out, especially during the spring and summer months.

While we’re suggesting an afternoon on Rottnest Island, if you have more than a weekend in Perth, you could spend a whole day on the stunning island discovering its shimmering salt lakes and dramatic coastline, punctuated by quiet rocky coves and tranquil turquoise bays (20 of them) skirted by crescents of sandy beaches (a whopping 63). Rotto can be explored on a bus tour, or by boat, or by bicycle or on foot. The walking and cycle tracks are shaded by Morton Bay figs and Aleppo pines and there are just a few vehicles on the island, so whichever way you choose to explore it will blissfully be car-free.

There’s an endless array of things to do on Rottnest Island: swimming, surfing, snorkelling, diving, and fishing are all favourite Rotto pastimes of Perth’s locals. Or you could be content with a stroll, some beachcombing, and snapping some pics with the cute, friendly quokkas — miniature marsupials unique to Western Australia – as you sip an icy cold beer at Hotel Rottnest, overlooking the aquamarine sea.

Sundowners

If you wished you had more time on Rotto, don’t worry, we’re not letting you finish your weekend in Perth without another quintessential Perth experience – beachside sundowners. All of Perth’s city beaches are beautiful – in fact, Western Australia’s beaches are some of Australia’s most beautiful – but today Cottesloe Beach is calling. From Victoria Quay, cross to Fremantle Train Station to take the train to Cottlesloe Train Station, from where it’s a 10-minute walk to Cottlesloe Beach – or jump in taxi for a faster journey.

Cottesloe Beach is picture perfect, with white sands, parkland shaded by magnificent Norfolk pines, and plenty of cafes and bars. And that’s where you’re going to enjoy the last of the gorgeous late afternoon light and wait to watch the sun set over the Indian Ocean – with a drink in hand. The Cottesloe Beach Hotel, which dates to 1905, has three fine bars. For a little sophistication (i.e. no flip flops or singlets) slip into Cott & Co. The Beach Club is a bit more relaxed, but the Verandah Bar is best if you spent the afternoon on the sand, and it also has the best vantage point for savouring sunset. Take a taxi or bus #102 back to the Elizabeth Quay Bus Station in the city (35 minutes).

Sunday Drinks and Dinner

It’s the last night of your weekend in Perth so make it a special one. Book a table at the new QT Perth’s gorgeous Santini Bar and Grill (above), which boasts a modern Italian menu by QT creative food director and Aussie Italian cuisine legend Robert Marchetti and Perth-born executive chef Nic Wood. But first, slip up to the stunning rooftop bar – the city’s highest – to clink glasses as you absorb the gob-smacking views. When you’re ready to dine, order some freshly shucked oysters while you decide what to eat from a menu bursting with the best of local produce, from hand-dived scallops to dry-aged steaks. And make sure you wash it down with a bottle of something from the Margaret River. There’s no better way to wind up a weekend in Perth.

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If your weekend in Perth inspired you to linger longer in Western Australia, see our posts on doing a slow Swan River cruise to the Swan Valley wine region, where to eat in Perth, driving from Perth to Margaret River and exploring the Margaret River Region.   

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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