Sorry for the abrupt end to the last post, my Internet time ran out pretty rapidly. Anyway, to pick up where I left off, the day after snorkelling I did the customary dolphin tour. The downside being a 5am start, but since there was little else to do in the hotel, I didn't mind. And it made an excuse for an afternoon nap. Took a little fishing boat out with two German girls from the coast of Lovina, where we spent two hours floating about and watching several pod...

I know I keep saying I won't, but I keep leaving it later and later. I think this time, it's because during my two and a half weeks in Bali, I spent about 80% of my time sitting by the pool and doing very little that was noteworthy. However, I will regale you with what little I have been doing, though it may be vague in parts due to my appalling memory. I arrived in Bali on November 13th, after an awful flight that required a 5am start. At the airport, I got a t...

Hello from Malaysia! Now, let's see. Last time I wrote I was still in Phuket, and during my six days there I did little else apart from spending time on the beach, eating and reading. I took one day trip out, as mentioned before, and enjoyed it immensely. After a very early start, I was picked up from my hostel and transferred to a harbour around an hour away. Luckily, three people from the hostel were not on the trip itself but were taking the boat over to Phi...

I know I said I wouldn't leave it this long again, for my own benefit rather than anyone else's, but it happened and now I have to rack my brains to remember what I've been doing for the last week or so. When I last updated, I had just arrived in Koh Samui, after a 5am wake-up call, a ferry and a minibus ride. Exhausted, we spent that afternoon lazing on the beach, swimming in the pool, and enjoying Singapore Slings in the lukewarm jacuzzi. This is a life I could...

So where did I leave off? After avoiding that morning's protests and holing myself up in the hostel, I was ravenous. Left the hostel to eat at the first place I could find, and had the usual blandly disappointing vegetables and rice. Then I took the Skytrain down to Siam Square for the afternoon, where there were upwards of 100 restaurants, in all of which I could have eaten a more satisfying meal. But you live and you learn. After mooching round the shops and ge...