Finally here in London. Got train from heathrow to paddington then walked out of station to our hotel - hotel indigo on London street. Dropped bags and caught tube to Westminster abbey and houses of parliament. Astounding to think how long they've been there. Getting tired so back to paddington and strolled around. Nice beer in an English publish and home to a very comfortable bed after two days of airplane seats. Tomorrow the big hop on hop off bus tour to catch...

In Doha on a 3 hour layover after flying out from Singapore at 2am. Very tired but we both slept on the plane. Qatar very nice airline. Landed at 4am 33 degrees hot hot in doha. Doha airport a real melting pot of all nationalities and duty free everywhere for the captive audience.

Unreal. Landed in singapore and went all over terminal 3 trying to find somewhere to leave the luggage for a few hours while we went in to chinatown. Jeannie found it - asked someone which a man (me) wouldn't have done. Long ride in on the MRT to Chinatown, changing twice on the way. Did Chinatown and went to our favourite spot to sit and have a beer in Chinatown. There was a group of middle aged chinese businessmen absolutely smashing through black and tans (gu...

And we are flying! Trying to catch up sleep on the flights as we don't sleep in a bed until Friday night in London.

In a bali bluebird taxi heading back to the airport to catch air Asia leg to singapore. Feel much much better after a one hour massage. Now where's that bintang!. New mission: a new beer in every country