Jungle Island Paradise We crossed the Malaysian border by bus without any probelms, a 3 month visa was stamped into our passports. As our bus reached the first town in Malaysia (Johor Bahru) we knew we had to get to the long haul bus station where we were planning on getting a 4 hour bus to Mersing on the South East of the Malaysian coast, just a small fishing village where tourists only really go to for transport to the various islands of the coast, our choice ...

Part 2 of our travels - 6 countries to go! Singapore, a country famous for its cleanliness and efficiency, and upon leaving the airport we weren't disappointed. We immediately noted the city's hi-tech fascination and clockwork precision train schedule. TV screens filled the train platforms and each time a train was ariving a video would play showing passengers how to correctly board the train. This video would also be accompanied with a song with a child-like me...

A Morgan in New Zealand! With our adrenaline pumping and an interesting way to start the day we met the bus down the road from the dive site. Our next stop was a ski town called Wanaka. The bus would carry on all the way to Queenstown, but we had heard that the views were just as good in Wanaka, just a bit quieter so we thought we'd take a couple of days to check it out. Driving around this part of NZ was beautiful. Snow capped mountains and perfectly still lake...

From Rolling English hills to European style Alps This would be the first time that I would have been on a ferry. For some reason ferry's or big boats have always reminded me of Titanic, and like Kate Winslet if the ferry did sink there's no way Daniel is sharing my door to float to safety! :) However the ferry had a cinema, bar, cafe and lots of seating. The scenery changes from N - S were immense, from the N (Yorkshire hills) to the S (Scottish Highlands). We...

Some Place Like Home From 30c blue skies we landed in a country that was very similar to England; cold, damp and drizzly weather! We had a bumpy start in NZ as we had booked our magic bus tour the wrong way round! We were flying into Christchurch (South Island) and flying out of Auckland (North Island), except that our bus was starting in Auckland and finishing in Christchurch! There was no way of changing our bus pass so we had no alternative than to fly to Au...