Spent today going to places in Yangon that I don’t think Sheila will want to see as it would be a shame to spend time looking at the same things twice. Yangon is a mixture of very old, decrepit and very new. The buildings are often covered with moss and in the oldest part of town there is a definite feeling of distressed grandeur. When it comes to the roads, It is very SE Asian in that the green light, or indeed the red light, is an indication only however the...

I was really sad to leave the hotel In Kuala Lumpur, they were so nice. As I was leaving the three receptionists all stopped to chat about travelling alone as a female. Mind you the reason I liked them could have been because they said they thought I was much too young to be retired!! The walk to the bus station didn’t take nearly as long as google said, the bus was waiting and the journey took half the time predicted, so all that added to the fact that I alwa...