Indonesia is now behind us and we are currently in the jungle of northern Borneo with thunderstorms rolling around us. We arrived in Sabah part of the Malaysian part of borneo six days ago after an overnight in Singapore, which was very westernised after Indonesia, and had our temperatures checked at the airports because of swine flu risks. Sabah's capital city, Kota Kinabalu, or KK as it's known locally, was busy and surprisingly developed, but once outside the ...

BaliOur five-day stay in Ubud saw us in one of Bali's tourist meccas. Almost every ten paces there was someone trying to offer us transport services, Balinese massage or inviting us to look at their handicrafts. In between cooling down in our guest house swimming pool, we visited temples, palaces, walked through paddy fields, marvelled at the 100+ monkeys around the Monkey Forest Temple and saw some great Balinese dancing.Andy also managed to scout out some TV pr...

We've made it to Bali! Yesterday we weren't too sure what was going to happen as the flight from Flores to Bali was cancelled with no information available. But Transnusa airlines came good today and we're now supping beer and uploading this blog and some photos. The four-day boat trip between Lombok and Flores was great. The scenery was stunning - green mountains and hills with sporadic villages, their wooden stilted houses clinging to the shores. For most of t...

Well, we're really in SE Asia now. We're sitting on a balcony looking out onto a foreground of red-brown tiled rooftops with a background hillside of dense, green vegetation. There are coconut trees in the courtyard just beneath the balcony and a small Hindu shrine next to a breeze block style wall. Brown-horned cows are scavenging around in the field to the right of us ... and the rain is coming down! We're in Lombok, one of the eastern chain of Indonesian islan...

We've just spent the last six days in Australia and had a great time with our cousins. With Gill & Adrian in Sydney we spent time in the pool, spotting Rosellas and Kookaburras, playing pinball & pool in their games room with lots of chatting. At Larry & Deana's we saw Dominic playing his first football game of the season and had a lovely time meeting Julie, Steve, John and the kids. We enjoyed the views from Mt Tambourine and a quick flit to the Gold...