We went to brisbane to visit Simon's old neighbour Suzie. She lives in Brisbane with her her kiwi husband Greg. We stayed with them for a couple of nights

After crossing the border on the train we got the underground to "little India" where Simon's mum and dad were, we met up and spent the whole day on the lash with a great group of locals who kept buying us drinks, Simons mum and dad left for their flight to Bali and one of the indians helped us find a hostal for 30 s$ (about 10 pound) Singapore is expensive when you are a backpacker but it incuded breakfast so we were happy Next day we walked around t...

we crossed the border to malasia then travelled about 7 hours to kuala lumper,it was a terrible journey,the coach was full of cockroaches but got there about 5.30am, loads of people waiting trying to take us to their hotel but we ended up going with this funny indian guy who had a hostel for 25rm (7 to the pound). it was a good place with rooftop bar with a free chicken drumstick with every beer you buy .Kuala lumper is very built up,very much like parts of Lon...

We got a boat from phi phi which took 3 hours to "reilly" beach (Krabi).it was low tide and we had to carry our backpacks knee deep over rocks. we walked to the east side but it was all resorts and too expensive so we desided to go to (Tonsai) which was only the next beach along but was separated by a cliff,the boat taxis were trying to charge us silly prices to go such a short distance so we again waded knee deep with backpacks around the cliff over sl...

We took boat from phuket, it took about four hours and simon sunk 6 changs. We stayed on the deck of the boat, which was very pleasent.Phi Phi is a beautiful island, although still recovcering from the sunarm.We found a guesthouse for 350baht. Then went to the beach on the quiet side of the island, where the sunsets, Simon tried fishing again but caught nothing. For a few days we just sunbathed and went to the beachbars, where we watch kick boxing and fire shows....