So I am writing this retrospectively but then you get more detail and exact dates. After our time in Kuala Lumpur we travelled down to Melaka which is a port town in Malaysia with alot of history. It was originally ruled by the Portugese, then the Dutch, and the us British took over until Malaysia finally got its independence. It is a pretty interesting place and there is still part of the old Portugese fort from the 1700s there but most of it was destroyed in W...

So here's another snippet from Singapore. Our final few days in Singapore we spent being real tourists and seeing the sights and the shops of course! One day we went shopping along the infamous Orchard Road which has the most shops along it than anywhere I have ever been. They must have the more Marks & Spencers on that road than in the whole of Greater Manchester, although they are no-where near as good as ours as they don't have fresh food there, only cri...