Our lengthy absence explained...

The below audiovisual aid should offer a full debrief on how Monkey and I have spent the past four months.



Oh, and by the way, you'll notice that there is no appearance made in the 3 some-odd minutes of footage provided of the lovely twin Austrian milkmaids, Dagmar and Heidi. Let's just say that their loveliness is now a thing of the past in our minds -- like Stendhal's famous branch now bereft of salt crystals. They said they wanted us to see Oktoberfest in Kitzbuhel... how could we have known...