Hello, We could not find an apporiate picture for this postcard but the key word is 'cockroaches'!! We arrived in Johor Bahru Monday afternoon and wanted to find a hotel quickly. After checking out a couple we opted for the Meldrum Hotel run by chinese peple. At first site the room seemed pleasent and we even paid for a superior room. What a mistake!! After watching tv that evening until midnight, Ad went to clean his teeth and discovered a cockroach in...

Hello we are back so soon writting another postcard to keep you all updated on our travels. We just stopped over in Mersing for the one night at the Embassy Hotel, we were drawn to this hotel by its name and it was kind of basic, cheap and came with lizards. Mersing was a friendly little place, not a great deal there but it was nice to walk around. The following morning we took a ferry to Tioman Island, this is the biggest island in this group. The ferr...

Hey hey hey everyone, We have moved quite alot down the East coast since we last wrote a postcard. We ended up spending 2 nights in Kuala Terengganu at the Grand Paradise hotel, despite the name it was not very grand and not much like paradise but it was bearable; once we managed to get a non-smelly room with a window. Our days here were spent catching up on our washing and doing internet jobs but we just didnt get round to writing this postcard. From ...

Hello again this is our second postcard to fully update you with what we have been going. So from Taman Negara after a bus ride, a mini van ride and a boat ride we finally arrived on Perhentian Besar ( the big island of the two) on the western beach. As we arrived quite late we took the advice of the Lonely Planet and stayed in the Paradise Island Resort, what a mistake!! The first room she gave us she fogot to tell us it didnt have a sink in the bathroom so...

Hello to everybody who still bothers to read our postcards. It has been over a week since we last wrote one and that is because we have not had the opportunity to use the internet until now. Well we left Kuala Lumper Wednesday before last and took a bus across the Peninsular to the Taman Negara national park. To get there required us to take a 3 hour long boat trip up the river to Kuala Tahan village. An hour was quite enough and we managed to see some...