As February arrived we set off on the bus to Singapore, an exciting prospect as it gave me the opportunity to meet up with Luke, Charlie and Al. Singapore is a very modern city, a big change from the rest of SE Asia, but it was a place I enjoyed immensely and could have done with more time to explore. After settling into our hostel we went out to meet Luke after he finished work - 11 hour days you crazy man! He told me we were going for some food but refused to t...

We got the biggest comfiest bus ever to Kuala Lumpur. It was definitely the nicest journey yet anyway. Sadly when we arrived in KL finding our hostel was not easy - we seemed to get stuck on one road going round in circles, and when we finally got there it seemed to be shut, until we realized it was up a flight of stairs, phew. We were staying near Petaling street, which is basically Chinatown, which sounds lovely but in reality is a big street with chinese lan...

We finally left Thailand and made our way to Penang, Malaysia, an unexpected stop as all the buses direct to KL were full due to Chinese New Year. Bad timing from us! However it all turned out right in the end as Penang was beautiful and such a relaxed place. We were dropped off at the wrong hostel originally as there are 3 different branches in the city, but Marcel, one of the receptionists at the correct hostel, saved the day and walked over to direct us to t...

Ko Phi Phi was our next stop and we were looking forward to seeing this beautiful island, but again it was so busy that the island itself is pretty much covered in bars and shops and scuba diving places. It's surprising to think that the entire island was overwhelmed by the tsunami and seeing evacuation route signs everywhere is slightly concerning! We were staying in a real hole in Phi Phi, and I was personally worried I'd put my foor through the floor at any mo...

So the minibus to Bangkok actually went off without incident, tired but not too rough and I'd managed to dash to the bakery in the morning to pick up a Swiss brioche - heaven! We had a bit of a wait between the two immigration points and had to sit on the back of an open wagon to be moved to the bus stop but apart from that everything was as normal! We were overjoyed upon our landing in Bangkok to find that we were only a 2 minute walk from our hostel - joy! T...