You don't have to go home. But you can't stay here

One the popular things to do in Perth is to attend the Sunday Sessions in Cottesloe. There are two pubs facing the ocean in Cottesloe. They are The Cottesloe Hotel, better known as "The Cott". And there is the Ocean Beach Hotel, better known as "The OBH", or "The Oh-bee". The Cott is more famous, especially amoung backpackers.

Starting around 3pm on Sunday, everyone seems to work their way down to one of these two hotels for some serious beer drinking. They get absolutely jammed packed by sundown, with a long line of people waiting to get in. Inside is it hot and noisy, and there is no room to move. It is almost impossible to get near a bar to order a drink. And if you do get to the bar, it is impossible to get a bartender to pay attention to you. The crowds consist of mostly young drinkers under 30. The Cott gets the real young crowd, what we would consider a college crowd in the US. The OBH gets an older crowd, but sometimes more wild.

Both pubs close at 10pm on Sunday. Suddenly at 10pm on Sunday nights there are 2000 very drunk people pushed out into the street as the bars close their doors for the night.

My new home is one block from the OBH. It is very quiet. But I have noticed that between 10pm and midnight on Sundays it gets very noisy. All these drunk kids scatter all over the neighborhood looking for rides, their cars, taxis, or God knows what. So I've taken to sitting out on my upstairs patio with a cold beer and watch the drunk loonies go by. It is very entertaining, sort of like a mini Mardi Gras every week for two hours. Guys (and girls), get into very loud discussions or arguments as they stumble down the street. The drunk girls come by and flash anyone who asks, then fall over laughing so hard. I've lost count of how many had forgotten they don't have panties on (or they lost them sometime during the evening).

Who needs TV?