Sun, sea, sand, surfing, shopping and sundae's in Bali... After a week of non stop sightseeing, we were looking forward to some sun, sea and sand in Bali. Having convinced Rob and Louisa to amend their travelling itinery to incorporate Bali, we were fortunate in that they arrived there a few hours before us and had come up trumps in sorting us all out accomodation. For £7 each a night we stayed in a really nice hotel called Simpang Inn which was right in the h...

We arrived into Singapore late afternoon to some serious heat and got dropped off at the edge of the city not too far from where we were staying, or so we thought. We ended up once again walking with our heavy backpacks for a good 40 sweaty minutes trying to find our hostel. We eventually managed to find it and it was a really nice hostel, The Mitraa and the first of which that didn't have an en suite bathroom, although we still managed to get a private room and ...

Our short stop over from Kuala Lumpar to Singapore brought us to the lovely little picturesque city of Melaka. Melaka is now a world heritage city and used to be one of the busiest trading ports in the world, it has Portuguese and Dutch influences, and are told that it is similar to Amsterdam only without the legalized drugs and peep shows. We would only be staying here for one night as it was just a little stop over on our way to Singapore. We got dropped off ...

East meets West in Kuala Lumpur... On leaving Thailand, the next stop on our travel itinerary was Malaysia’s hi-tech tech capital city of Kuala Lumpur, or “KL” as it’s also known. We’d been advised against traveling overland to Malaysia from Thailand due to political unrest around the border. In true “flashpacker” style we therefore took an airplane flight from Krabi which was only a short distance from where we had been staying in Railay. The fl...

East meets West in Kuala Lumpur... On leaving Thailand, the next stop on our travel itinerary was Malaysia’s hi-tech tech capital city of Kuala Lumpur, or “KL” as it’s also known. We’d been advised against traveling overland to Malaysia from Thailand due to political unrest around the border. In true “flashpacker” style we therefore took an airplane flight from Krabi which was only a short distance from where we had been staying in Railay. The fl...