I'm sitting in Kuala Lumpur airport in Starbuck's, about to board my flight to London.Travelling alone does have it's advantages (I got to the airport very early, checked in, and intend to be at the gate atleast an hour before my flight departs), but in general I would have to say that travelling with Howie is much more fun. Having been travelling alone for over 24 hours now, certain experiences have crossed my path that never would have done had Howie been here....

My last few days in Thailand were great. Howie is staying on an extra week to do a Muay Thai Boxing Camp, but for now, my Thai adventures are over. After the wonderful day with the elephants, we stayed up to watch the woeful 6 Nations grand slam decider. The only place showing it was, unfortunately, an Irish pub, so with England playing really badly, the usual Irish idiots filled the air with nastiness. I wasn't very happy. What it meant was that the next mornin...

To take issue with us now would be unwise... We could command an army of Thai elephants to unleash brutal destuction at one word. Today, we learned how to be elephant mahouts. Yesterday we got another massage, this time at a place where all of the masseurs are blind. Having enjoyed the previous Thai massages we had had, we opted for another one, unsuspecting of the sheer brutality and strength of the massage therapists. They had the strongest thumbs and elbows o...

Would you like a Thai massage, Miss? One hour? 120Baht? (Erm, yes please!)Chiang Mai is simply great.We arrived yesterday morning after our night on the train. The train moves at pretty much walking pace, so it took longer than the bus would have. Still, we got a fairly decent night's sleep and were raring to go when we got here yesterday. We had our first tuk-tuk ride through the streets of Chiang Mai to our hostel, Finlay's Cottage, just east of the old city. W...

Bangkok has, thus far, been a positively bargainous treat. We arrived yesterday morning, after the world's longest day; we left Sydney on Monday night at 10pm on Monday night and arrived in Kuala Lumpur at 3am local time, because of the - rather confusing - time difference. We then flew out to Bangkok at 8am Malaysian time and landed at 9am Thai time, which meant that we also gained an hour there - we had about an extra 4 hours yesterday, which was most disconcer...