Borneo is apparently the third largest island in the world. Whoever wrote that obviously dosn't consider Australia to be an island as I was taught at school but whatever. Borneo is a few hundred kilometres off the East coast of Malaysia and is divided into Malaysian Borneo comprising approximately the top third of the island, Kalimantan/Indonesian Borneo and Brunei, a tiny country completely surrounded by Malaysian Borneo. Clare and I have now spent a month and a...

There comes a time when travelling with no return date in mind that some of us feel the paing of guilt. A fleeting acknowledgement that we have at the very least escaped the monotony of day to day life whilst those we care about most are still slogging it out. Whilst this feeling is not strong enough nor persistent enough to make us commit the ultimate sacrilige and return to sydney, get jobs and take up a lease on an apartment, Clare and I do recognise that we...