In Western Australia it’s not usual to have a central heating system in your house. The best thing you can get is a reversed cycle air conditioning. This is an air conditioning system which can also heat.

The Australians are simply used to cold temperatures and in the case they think it’s a little bit freezy, they sit gladly with their jackets and coats at the diner table or in front of the telly.

Well, we are probably two particular freezy ones, but how Australians can live comfortably in houses without heaters when it has about 5 degree Celsius outside, it’s something we do not understand at all.

We have also no real heating in our house. But it’s good for us that our landlord seemed to be an Australian who obviously felt the cold as well at some point in time and so we have a mobile electrical heater in our place. The heater alone can’t heat the whole place, so we put a fan behind the heater and now it gets really cosy and warm in front of the telly. Sometimes we even remove our jumpers!

The downside of this heating method is the monthly electricity bill, but you cares as long as the tip of our noses is not cold anymore.