Hello everyone, sorry for the massive gap in communication. I have been in the land of very expensive internet. I know I keep promising this, but my blog really should be up to date by the weekend. There's not a lot to report for Thursday as it was just a travelling day. We flew from Kota Kinabalu to the very boring town of Miri. I did, however, get a picture of a plane decked out in Manchester Untied colours (see photos, which are at the moment a little ahead o...

Hi everyone, and welcome to the next installment of my blog. The brighter amongst you may realise that I am currently about 2 weeks behind, but it has been so hard to get online recently, what with being in the rainforest and all (the rainforest does not have internet, I was disgusted.) But I plan to be up to date by the weekend. So, I left you in Poring Hot Springs, with the taste of dried cicadas in my mouth. We woke up the following morning, still exhausted an...

Well well well, Sorry it's been so long since I last wrote, I've been away from civilisation for quite some time... I left you in Kota Kinabalu, where I headed out towards Kiau village, which is at the base of mount Kinabalu. The journey was a rough one, as the village was down a very steep and rutted track which in places had been swept away by landslides, and the village was extremely remote when we arrived. We were treated to a performance by the locals pla...

Well hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog! You may wonder why I am writing so soon after leaving, but the places I am going are going to be very remote, and I probably won't have internet until Sunday 4th May now, so thought I'd give you a little information today.... So I set off on Wednesday morning bright and early, for a mammoth journey to Kota Kinabalu, which would total three days and three flights. My fear of flying hasn't improved at all, but at...