I think we just lost 48 hours there. So easy to do in Langkawi... It's such a relaxed kind of place and I am currently doing that rare thing of enjoying a beach holiday with no activities or excursions planned, just the lovely beach and a marvellous book. Saying that, we've been eyeing up the scooters and reckon we might hire one tomorrow so our relaxing break could well turn into a blood smeared knee massacre... We'll see. Until then, I've only had one ice cream...

It's official; Langkawi is a hot smokin' island of Malay love. We arrived on Pulau Langkawi this morning after succeeding in two things: 1. Finding the worst thing that Howie has ever eaten.2. Sourcing a Starbucks. It's a lovely 32 degrees here and the Sunset Beach Resort (which is where we're staying) is lovely. It's on a fairly quiet beach but is right next to the 'hoppin'' beach so we have close access to lots of lovely places to eat. As we're over on the we...

Today was our only full day in Kuala Lumpur and we were prepared to make the most of it. A list of things to visit was constructed and the alarm was set at 8.30 in order to allow us to get the most out of our day. However, when we woke up at 11.30... that's right 11.30... it meant that things didn't quite work out as planned. In all fairness, we'd not really slept the night before and had been travelling for rather a long time, so we were allowed a little bit of...

We may finally be on dry land but it feels like the whole world is swaying around. After a lengthy 13 1/2 hour flight that was, to be frank, rather bumpy for the last four or so hours, and having had little or no sleep, we've reached Kuala Lumpur in body but not quite in mind. Malaysia Airlines actually came up trumps; they served food regularly (Howie was happy) and we arrived here without plummeting from the skies into the billowing depths of the Bay of Bengal...

With two days until the 'big off', Howie is finally back from Florida where he has been charming the American olds, dominating the market in extreme breakfast sponging and calling me from his hotel that was so posh there was a little TV in the bathroom mirror so you didn't have to miss a minute of the morning news/24/Seasame Street while you had a shave/brushed your teeth/plucked your nostril hair. It has meant, of course, that all those last-minute things that n...