JAMES Well, here we are, back in Blighty! We've been back for a week now, have had a lovely Christmas, caught up with lots of friends and family, and have even just put the last load of washing on this evening! Still got lots of things to sort out in the next week before going back to work, but at least we have got New Year before then so can do some further catching up (and drinking) before then! I still cannot quite get used to being home, to the fact that ou...

KATIE Just a quick update from Singapore airport about to catch our flight home - somewhat disappointing that it's all come to an end, and we have a 14 hour flight to go to get home!! I don't want to leave, it's been too much fun!! Since our last update we spent 2 nights in Kuala Lumpur which was cool - nice city, lots of green areas around the Twin Towers. Not really much sightseeing to do but we certainly enjoyed the lie in at the Traders Hotel on the first d...

KATIE Well, we're now in the comfort of the lovely Traders Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on the last legs of our fantastic trip of a lifetime. I'm going to have to cast my mind back to when we did what and in what order, the last few days have been quite hectic!! Having lazed around in the beautiful Tanjung Aru resort for a few days it was time once again to pack up the bags and move on - if a little (actually a lot) slower on my part, my legs are still aching even now...

JAMES As you all know I am naturally a very lazy person, so there are few things that will get me out of bed at 2am. There are fewer things still that will have me climbing a mountain, and virtually nothing merits sitting in strong icy winds at the top of that mountain for an hour, in the dark! But I had heard people saying that the sunrise over the Borneo jungle, viewed from the top of Mount Kinabalu was something pretty special, so that is how we found ourselv...

JAMES OK, this entry will be considerably shorter than recent ones, as we are at Changi Airport waiting to get onto the plane to Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. Got into Singapore at 7.30 last night, so by the time we had made our way to the hostel we were only ready for sleep and not any late night sightseeing! But we did get up nice and early this morning and had a quick whizz around the Central Business District and the Orchard Road Shopping centres (to buy a head to...