It must be a Northern thing
They're even leaving more chaos behind than Gordon Brown could manage to.
A pair of Swedish newlyweds enjoyed what must rate as the liveliest honeymoon on record, in the process landing themselves firmly at the bottom of the list of travelling companions of choice. Stefan and Erika Svanstrom of Stockholm departed their native land on 6 December, with their baby daughter in tow. The pair, both in …
So they "battled their way to Cairns in Australia, which was swiftly battered by one of the worst cyclones in the Lucky Country's history" then "travelled to Brisbane, where they were met with extensive flooding, forcing a cross-country retreat to Perth" where they "narrowly escaped" raging bush fires"
Not that I'm doubting the Swedes but no-one "battles their way" by plane to anywhere these days. Cairns was hardly touched by Cyclone Yasi, the floods in Brisbane happened weeks before the cyclone and the Perth bush fires were, by definition, in the bush and not in Perth.
Call me cynical but my bullshit detector is flashing red right now.
Depends what you define as Perth and as bush. The fires in Roleystone were in bushland suburb (houses built on larger-than-usual blocks with lots of bush left intact, in keeping with the areas rustic asthetic...) which bordered on a huge area of housing that stretches all the way back to Perth. The fires in a lot of cases were stopped inside of these non-bush suburbs lower down the hill, and over 100 houses were damaged or destroyed. It was bloody lucky they didn't get any worse than they did...
Admittedly, Perth is known for its horrible urban sprawl, but that area is definately considered a part of Perth. I don't know if they went anywhere near that area of Perth, but technically speaking, they are right to say they were in the same city as the bushfires.
Talking as a Bush Fire Fighter that was present at the aforementioned Roleystone fires. =)
these guys may have battled over Egypt/Libya too ! did they overfly Ivory Coast ? how do we explain the Victorian floods in their complete absence ( other than by their close proximity ! ) ? svanstrom means swan icon. did Erika secretly not like her new surname ? do swans really dig climactic extremity ? has some kind of cygnomorphism gone on here ? are swans indeed responsible_for_everything ?
ntl, long life and happiness to them after all that.