Jan and Amanda live in Perth, West Australia, where summer is about to arrive. Try not to feel too envious if you’re reading from the Northern Hemisphere…

In Jan and Amanda they write about life in Australia. Amanda is Australian, Jan is German and their posts are written in both languages. Photos of their trips to the spectacular countryside surrounding Perth are an added bonus.

Photo: Sunrise at Bodallin, West Australia from Jan and Amanda

Like Kyle, who wrote about learning to get on with her Chilean father-in-law for My Partner is a Foreigner, Amanda is also a professional blogger, mostly writing about travel.

In a different blog Not a Ballerina she writes about her life as a travel writer. It is the second blog of several - go there and check out the rest as well!

Sadly Olive will not update The Life of Riley any more. The oldest blogger in the world passed away on July 12th aged 108.

Olive took up blogging in February 2007 at the age of 106 with the help of Mike, her helper, and through her blog she became known and loved all over the world.

The blog is an amazing record of the life of this remarkable Australian lady, and also hopefully an inspiration to all of us that you are never too old to start something new.

Little Jenny Wren is an artistic look at everyday life with a mother of three living in Tasmania, Australia. Jenny loves ‘all things domestic’ and in her spare time makes beautiful cloth dolls.

Photo: home-made bread rolls from Little Jenny Wren. Don’t they look delicious?

Especially interesting if you are eager to read all about life in Australia (and other countries) is the A Day in my Life project which Jenny started in March 2008. On the 14th of each month she keeps a diary of everything she does that day, and posts so you can read about it. She has been joined by more than 30 other friends who each keep diaries of their own.

Update: May’s day in my life stories are linked here. There are diaries from Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Canada, Israel and Germany.

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If this is your first visit to PocketCultures then welcome! Please have a look around - on this page you will find blogs from different countries, in Topics of the World there are articles about world cultures and in My Partner is a Foreigner you can read stories about multi-cultural relationships. After reading if you would like to comment or drop us a line we’d love to hear from you.