We started the day with more cake. Anna played safe with the same two types as yesterday whereas I went for peach and sesame seed cake and a pineapple and coconut tart, both yummy. We sat under a tree by the river and ate them while watching a monitor lizard and large brown fish in the water. We found a bit of the market we'd not seen previously and went to a stall selling batik stuff. We bought a blank peacock and coloured it in, it was relaxing and nice. Afte...

We both struggled to wake up this morning, the quiet of the hotel with the cool air con makes sleeping too easy. That and we've walked flippin' miles over the last few days!! We had an exciting trip to the post office where I sent home some of my stuff...should have taken Alpkit Nick's advice and just packed my credit card and passport, although I would now be wearing nothing but Thai fishing trousers and Chinese dressing gowns!! Feeling a little less affluent...

2nd blog from Josh. We wanted a quieter day today and started with another Starbucks breakfast. We went to book the coach back to Singapore, then walked towards the bird park. This took us past the national Mosque which was covered in beautiful patterns and into a quieter part of town which was a nice change after the hectic, noisy bits of the city we'd walked through yesterday. The bird park had a few huge aviaries where the birds were 'free' to fly around. ...

Wrote a massive long blog all about our epic bus journey to KL, the millions of palm trees, Malaysian border control (quite easy), Malaysian service stations (quite conventional) and how cushy our hotel seems after hostels but the hotel wifi isn't very good and it lost my blog before it was uploaded :( We ate an amazing meal in the chaos of Chinatown (sizzling satay and Chinese spring onion beef and chicken fried rice. At first I was a bit overwhelmed by every...