Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is the Friends of History,

Debating Society. I'm John Batcheworth, Jeremy Sackison,

cold New South Wales. The whole continent is rugged up because they're used to their different temperature range than we are here in New England.

And our temperature range is a little chillier than expectations, but it'll work out.

My grandmother taught me, seven years years that's what you have to wait

seven years for a change in weather all right fine I'll wait

Jeremy the reptiles are doing predictable things but they're not getting easier to manage. The most

outrageous series seems to be the venomous snakes like to come up through toilets.

Is that ordinary or does that just get headlines?

Well, John, that's not really ordinary and it also does get headlines now because the reality is normally toilets are too wet for snakes basically at the crux of it. It's too wet.

It's often a little bit cooler than the rest of the house and it's not really a place where snakes

like to go. They prefer maybe the ceilings where the roof cavity provides the warmth and

the dryness or maybe in the

walls too where for the same reason you get the warmth and the dryness but what's

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