all was going well, we got back to Merang, caught the taxi for the 2 hour ride to Marang, (which cost all of about 4 quid), giving ourselves plenty of time to do some shopping for gifts and then catch a boat to Redang.......until........... .......to be honest, i didnt realise at first, just watching out of my window at all the shacks by the side of the road, the men drinking coffees and smoking, the women-doing everything else, i even didnt flinch as we nearly ...

thought i would make use of this picture i took of laura earlier on. i think you will agree, the lack of tweasers has done magical things to her eyebrows. anywhooo, palau Kapas is amazingly quiet. we are staying in a shed surrounded by palm trees, using a wordrobe converted shower and hiding behind our mozzie net between 5 and 8 when they officially call it, "mozzie time." thousands of the f***ers. laura says it makes her feel like a princess inside th...

EEEEEASY! we are having a day out in Merang, a quite fishing village which is....asleep. nothing here apart from over priced sun cream and a fruit market. f*** that fruit stinks. laura got on the back of a mans bike, i stood in a market wondering when she would return, then we left. Merang is s***. but we are gettin hthe boat over to PALAU KAPAS which is ment to be pretty pretty, we love you long time. there are signs up at the boat port warning you to take wate...

Kuala Terengganu is truel a scary place if you happen to have blonde hair. i have had 15 yr old boys blowing kissess at me while laura has had fully grown men making the (BUB-BUB ping pong) noise at her as we walk in the highly muslim populated streets. very interesting place, very busy, with beautiful mosques littered along the road side as often as phone boxes in england. people outside, fixing shoes, smoking on street corners in deep discussion, and an all to ...

So i listed this Blog as "cultural Encounters." if living with no electricity, a toilet with no flush, sharing a bed with cockroaches the size of lions, looking at the jungle touching the white sands which dissapear into shark infested waters so clear, when you Piss in the sea, you can see it, counts as a cultural encounter?? Pretty amazing place. the most beautiful place i have ever been lucky eneough to see, a trrrrrruely feel blessed to have see...