Hey All We arrived in Singapore on Tuesday after a relatively painless flight from Kuala Lumpur. We jumped on the very efficient MRT (underground) system and arrived at our hotel with no problems at all. It was really hot and even the short walk from the station left us very sticky. After a nice shower and change of clothes we headed out for a bit of an explore around the locality, grabbed some food and then went back to our hotel. On Wednesday we woke up ear...

Hey All We travelled to Kuala Lumpur by bus from Penang. This was supposed to take about 5 hours which we thought was a long time but not too bad since it was a lot cheaper than flying. Little did we know that it would take about 8 hours in the end, including stopping to pick up more passengers in different bus terminals and getting fuel before we left. We were finally dropped off about 9pm in KL at the side of a road, not as we expected at a bus station! We tri...

Hey All We left Langkawi on a catermaran, very similar to the one that we didn't feel very well on when travelling to Ko Tao. Fortunately the sea was like a mill pond and the 3 hour crossing was very smooth. We arrived at the port in Georgetown, Penang and decided to get a taxi to our hostel since the directions we had were a little vague and it was very hot. We arrived at 'Hutton Lodge' - our base for the next four days exploring. It's a lovely restored colonia...

Hey All Due to recent fighting in the south of Thailand we've opted for the longer, safer route to Malaysia rather than the short, but possibly unsafe route. Home number 19: Night boat from Ko Tao to Surat Thani, Tuesday 2100hrs. Awful. Firstly, the mattresses are tiny - this would be fine if we were on the same "double" mattress, though somehow we'd been allocated separate mattresses both of which were sharing with another man! Pete's new partner (...

Hey All On Friday we had the worst travel day yet. It started off with a 25 minute boat ride to Ko Phangan, the sea was a little choppy and we were not feeling great when we got there. After that came a 90 minute boat ride to the island of Ko Tao in a high speed catamaran on quite possibly the choppiest water ever. A man came round after the first 45 minutes handing out carrier backs, from then on about 80% of the boat had a bag full of sick. Hol was very poorly...