the backstreets of perth

on the whole, the roads in perth are wide and straight. sometimes too wide and i find myself one minute on the inside lane and then suddenly there's four lanes and i'm on the outside, thinking how did this happen. There are however lots of little back lanes, like tiny narrow little lanes that go along the back of people's houses, and in a similar way to me seeing a bridge and wanting to walk over it, R finds it very hard to resist passing a lane by, and suddenly we're off road and down a dirt track that clearly hasn't been used in quite a while. However, they are extra handy for avoiding traffic and also for ducking down when there's no right turn to ensure your car is facing the correct direction for parking.... because here, when you park on the street, you have to be facing the direction of the traffic... i'm not sure what would happen if you broke this 'rule', but basically no one seems to, and i'm a stickler for authority anyway. Oh, and sometimes we go down a lane just because we like the name.