We are on the final leg. We are now back in Kuala Lumpur ready for our flight home on Tuesday. I am looking forward to getting back to things that we take for granted like 'health and safety', people that queue, and people not shouting 'taxi, taxi' at you. Also my own bed, a good cup of tea with normal milk and some bean jar. Well, scuba diving in the Komodo Islands was amazing, definitely worth all of the hassle it was to get there. It was a completely differe...

This is a blog to make you all feel better that we do get the odd stressful day. At one point today both of us said that we wanted to come home. Its the stupid bank again. We are in a small town called Labuan Bajo ready to go on a liveaboard tomorrow for 3 days in the Komodo Islands. When we booked it they said that they only accept cash (which isn't that strange out here) and as our banks limit us for taking money out per day, we took a whack out a couple o...

We arrived in Bali absolutely starving and couldn't quite function properly until we got some grub in us! So to Carol's delight we went to the nearest food establishment (if you can call it that) McDonalds! I normally expect rubbish food from McDonalds but this was really crap! Carol didn't even finish her burger! I'll repeat that, Carol didn't finish a McDonalds burger!! I think she's finally getting it. Anyway we walked past all the annoying 'taxi! taxi!' men ...

I'ts been a while but we've been quite busy doing not a lot! And we've been on an island with not very easy access to the internet. By the way its Shaun back in the hot seat because Carol isn't feeling so good, so expect a rant here and there and possibly some colourful language. Last blog we mentioned a bit of island hopping but we changed our plans at the last minute (unlike us) and went to a quieter part of Phuket. We went to Sa Khu (I think) which was a lot...

If we were asked wat was our favourite part of the trip so far, we would definitely say the liveaboard that we have just done in the Similan and Surin Islands. It was fantastic. Lets first explain how we got here. Last time you heard from us we were about to cross the border into Laos, which we did. We were just wandering about and feeling bit fed up and tired of the constant travelling, so one evening over a beer (actually I think it was wine) we made a plan. W...