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...

Howdy! Just got back from a nice evening meal on the Marina Bay (yes a full meal!). Lights on all the building are stunning and there's quite a party atmosphere with lots of people out eating and drinking in families and with friends. We saw where the F1 track goes; there's still tyre marks on the road!! Had a somewhat frustrating day having trekked out all the way across Singapore island by train to buy train tickets to Malaysia. Unfortunately after an hours...

Josh's first blog post, I've managed to wrest the ipad away from Anna who is being an ipad hog! Today we both slept for a sensible amount of time and didn't have an afternoon nap, such progress! This meant that we had a better day. We got the MRT to Marina Bay which was stunning, the buildings were huge and the mix between the old, colonial Singapore and the new bit is very pronounced. The Merlion (in the photo, the white lion fish cross spraying water) is a n...