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Andy and Debbie - Life on Earth

Life on Earth In the late 1970s David Attenborough bravely attempted to cram the entire history of life on this planet into just under 12 hours of television. Most would agree he did a pretty good job, all things considered, but inevitably more than a few bits were left on the cutting room floor. Almost 30 years later Andy and Debbie set out from their home in Cairns, Australia, to chronicle a few of the finer points David may have missed, with particular emphasis on the remarkable decline over the intervening period of that fine specimen, the Mullet. We hope you will enjoy these 'Missing Episodes' as much as we enjoyed making them.
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The fifth best thing about going to Laos is being able to say that you’ve been. On returning home from your year away, everybody you know will ask just two identical questions of your entire trip, all the detail they can squeeze in before returning to the unrelenting pressures of their busy modern lives: ‘Did you have a good time?’ (Oooh, no. Terrible. I’d much rather have been stuck in the old 9 to 5 like you guys) And secondly, ‘Where was the best place?’ Frankly by now they’ve lost interest already and aren’t terribly bothered b [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 23rd 2009 | 111 Views | [diary=452582]

Seeing Double
Big Buddha, Luang Prabang
Centipede in Leaf

As we began our descent from 30000ft I was entirely oblivious to the air-crew’s requests to stow our tray-tables, return our seats to the upright position and fasten our seatbelts as I was entirely rapt by the stunning views laid out for before me from my window-seat. A vast glistening blue lake was encircled by endless emerald green fields, themselves sparkling with the waters sustaining the rice-paddies below. It was hard to believe that such a glittering marvel, a scene straight out of a fairy-tale, had just thirty years earlier gained notoriety worldwide as The Killing Fields. B [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 8th 2009 | 104 Views | [diary=451554]

Butterfly, Banteay Srei
The Forest Takes Over, Ta Phrom
Sunset at Ta Phrom

If you’d told me way back as a kid that I’d be flying to Beijing one day, I’m not sure I’d have known what to think. Back then China was something of an unknown quantity, a mysterious Red Giant which, while not as likely to blow us to kingdom-come as the bloody Ruskies, still definitely resided in the ‘Not To Be Trusted’ file. The truth is I, like the rest of the world in those days, had very little idea of what actually went on in China at all. It was a strange land of ancient traditions that the modern [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 28th 2009 | 104 Views | [diary=446568]

Wedded Bliss?
Feeling Blue
Forbidden City, Beijing.

Bee-autiful!
Bee-autiful!
Kinabalu NP, Borneo
It’s official. Malaysia is full. I’ve been to some pretty crowded places in my time, but never before have I come across an entire nation which was sold out. Admittedly we hadn’t done ourselves any favours by arriving in late July, slap bang in the middle of peak season, but even so, you’d think there’d be at least some chance of somewhere to stay. Travelling used to be so easy. Any idiot could do it. Ironic, then, that now that so many idiots are travelling, it’s suddenly become so hard. In times past you could just mooch around to your he [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 10th 2009 | 239 Views | [diary=442225]

Fangs alot!
Petronas Towers
Borneo Sunset

Goldeneye
Goldeneye
Now THAT'S a Gecko! Sunshine, Koh Tao.
Thailand; The Land of Smiles. The locals really do seem a cheery bunch round here, and for our part, we found no trouble fitting right in, as we appeared to have just stumbled on paradise. First stop was Koh Phi Phi, a picture-perfect little islet of curving beaches and lush jungle. The view from the peak was pure travel brochure, like stepping onto the set of an escapist movie, which in fact you had as scenes from The Man with the Golden Gun were filmed here way back when. To make it even more special, we’d arrived in low season when [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 30th 2009 | 325 Views | [diary=440901]

Shrine at Viewpoint, Koh Tao.
Rei Leh Bay
Close-up of Shrine at Viewpoint, Koh Tao.

By Andy and Debbie
September 19th 2009
Just About Finnished Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki
Close your eyes for a just a minute and picture Scandinavia. Looks pretty fine, doesn’t it? I’m guessing we summoned our fair share of forests and fjords, lakes and longboats, saunas and snow-clad slopes. And it really is all out there in this winter wonderland, an area five times as large as Britain with less than half the population. So why is it, do you think, that hardly anyone ever goes? I’ve been to some pretty far flung places in my time, but had never even thought of Scandinavia, despite Scotland being only a hop and a skip away. That is, [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 19th 2009 | 218 Views | [diary=437829]

Helsinki Cathedral
Helsinki Cathedral Interior
What's Branson Been Up To Now?

Five years. Actually a little longer. A shade over five and a half. There’s no doubt about it, it’s quite a while. Athens and Beijing had come and gone. England had won the Rugby, then carelessly knocked-on to the Springboks, and Italy somehow snatched the soccer silverware. It was longer than my time at university. Almost as long as senior school. And by far the longest I’d ever spent outside the country of my birth. Britain’s a funny old place, and returning was going to feel distinctly weird, the more so as the last few months were spent in the wonders [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 6th 2009 | 152 Views | [diary=434318]

Pitlochry
Wildflowers, Tintagel, Cornwall
Queensferry Harbour

Of all my many foibles, the one that foxes Debbie most is my approach to films. In a nutshell, I don’t like to know anything about a movie before I see it. Okay, the title’s always handy to avoid walking into the wrong theatre. And maybe I’ll risk a quick glance at the cast list, in order to gauge its quality and avoid any accidental exposure to Jennifer Love Hewitt. A guy’s only got so many lives, after all. But that’s it. Any outline of genre, content, or plot is strictly verboten. Too many times I’ve had pictures ruined by giveaways [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 21st 2009 | 145 Views | [diary=429935]

Bodnath Stupa
Wedding at Changi Narayan
Facemasks, Patan

Now here’s a thing that always puzzles me. Back home in Cairns we have an excellent sea-front swimming lagoon, built to make up for the lack of a town-centre beach. Beside it runs an attractive boardwalk stretching the length of the Esplanade, backed by landscaped parkland and fronting the ocean. It’s a great place for a stroll, particularly at the sun’s rise or set, and large numbers of townsfolk turn out to do just that every day. But here’s the funny bit. For some reason, in order to do so, most of them seem to feel the need to get [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 8th 2009 | 228 Views | [diary=426356]

Always Smiling!
View from Poon Hill, Ghorepani
All Fingers and Thumbs

By Andy and Debbie
July 21st 2009
Himalayabout Asia » Nepal » Annapurna
Christmas is for the kids. At least that’s what they tell me. Which is funny, as back as a nipper I recall folks banging on about the birth of the baby Jesus, and sending me off to sing carols in cold unwelcoming churches, which wasn’t my idea of fun at all. These days, everyone knows the whole thing’s a sham, solely for the benefit of those two most disparate of parties: the Capitalist Pigs, and those of a less wealthy porcine persuasion, who find it impossible to get a snog anywhere but the Christmas Party. If Jesus was involved at [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 21st 2009 | 112 Views | [diary=420597]

Early Morning Nerves
Quietly Confident
Happy Days!



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