Cooling down with a beer

John on the terrace

From sharks in Sydney to a cyclone in Cairns

January 15th 2009
Cyclones, storms, floods and shark attacks Tuesday 13th January 2009 Well, we are now sitting on a plane heading for Cairns, where parts of the town are underwater; cyclone “Charlotte” hit Northern Queensland yesterday and the flooding is said to be extensive. We did consider delaying our flight but decided not to and to take a chance on things being OK, after all, the cyclone has done its ... read more

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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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