http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey "You Very Handsome, She Very Beautiful" Thu, 25 May 2006 17:48:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whoever might still be waiting and wondering what's happened to us; we arrived home on 23rd April having spent our last two weeks in Singapore and Malaysia. Australia is a wee bit more expensive that Asia, and it just sucked us dry. But we agreed at the start we were ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/ps-were-home.html Outback These are photos of our van after driving through the outback for two days. Most of this mess was caused when we hit a grasshopper plague. Grasshoppers sit on the road - presumably because of the heat it gives off - lazing the day away, until we come ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/springs-and-rocks.html Staying With Louise Rupert writes We had met Louise and her daughter, Isla, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Having shared the unforgettable tiger cuddling experience we all had something to talk about, and after exhausting that topic it turned out they were heading to Bangkok on the same day as us and needed ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/queensland.html Daintree Rupert writes Keep going past Cairns and you reach the tropical rainforest of Daintree. To sum up Daintree in one word I would have to use 'fresh'. Because that's what you feel, what you breath, and what you see. It had been raining the previous day so every ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/daintree.html We're struggling to update this website lately.  With so little time in such a big country we're spending most of our time, would you believe, travelling.  We'll try to get an update on what we've been doing with ourselves for the past numerous weeks soon, but until then little me ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/zoom-zoom-zoom.html CRIKEY! It's The Australia Zoo! Home indeed to the crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin. It was a must see we decided, and despite not catching a glimpse of Mr Irwin himself we did have a fantastic day. It opened at 9am and we were waiting at the gates. We'd ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/australian-animals-fruits-and-musical-instruments.html During our time around Byron Bay we took a couple of overnight trips in our camper to surrounding attractions... Tropical Fruit World Laura writes The aftermath when you offer endless tasty fruits for us to try We're not proud of it, or maybe we are, but by impersonating a couple of rather sophisticated ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/australian-fruits-instruments-and-other-things.html Thanks to a very kind friend we met in Thailand, Louise, we've been staying in her house over the last couple of days - more to come of that later - and exchanging tiger photos (we met her whilst adoring the tigers at Kanchanaburi) and we thought we'd post these ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/ooh-ooh-more-tiger-photos.html Our Camper! After overcoming a few technical difficulties (HTML coding gone AWOL) we've finally been able to post this. Hope everyone is well. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/75.html Tonsai Rupert writes On the mainland of the Krabi district - although separated from the world by towering limestone cliffs dripping with climbing opportunities that are no virgin to the sweaty fingers of climbers that come from around the globe to hang off in agonising determination - is Tonsai, a secluded climbers ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Monkey/back-in-the-clean-land-of-smiles.html