Note 1 – Monday 23rd May We have our passports back, and with six month, multiple entry visas for India! Eat my shorts, Stuart Buchan, no missing passport stories for you my son! Multiple entry is a bonus, given that we didn’t ask for it, on the advice of Rapid Visas, who said it might cause unnecessary problems (more questions being the last thing we wanted, given our undeclared and phone-less location on the other side of the world). Makes up ever so sligh...

Note 1 Unfortunately for Pulau Tioman (Tioman Island), and all others we’ll visit from now on, Koh Lipe now stands as a point for comparison. And at first glance, with its narrower, yellower beaches, and deeper, hence darker coloured waters, it doesn’t really come close. But you don’t get chosen as the set for Hollywood films and listed amongst the top ten islands in the world for nothing! (Albeit if that was a few decades ago; I don’t think that many ha...

Just for a change, I thought I'd throw a current blog entry into the mix! Despite spending about a week everywhere we go now, instead of only a couple of days, I'm still in a position where I've got half a dozen entries written and still to type up, and two or three still to write altogether. Clearly, I'm never going to be fully up to date, so I reckon random current blog entries may be the way forward. We've had a very mixed two and a half days in Kuala Lumpur ...

Just for a change, I thought I'd throw a current blog entry into the mix! Despite spending about a week everywhere we go now, instead of only a couple of days, I'm still in a position where I've got half a dozen entries written and still to type up, and two or three still to write altogether. Clearly, I'm never going to be fully up to date, so I reckon random current blog entries may be the way forward. We've had a very mixed two and a half days in Kuala Lumpur ...

Hat Yai, a one night stop over, connecting our bus from (the nearest mainland port to) Koh Lipe, to another that’ll take us into Malaysia, is purely getting a mention for blog map accuracy. Otherwise it’d look like we’d had a boat ride very much longer than an hour and a half, maybe even entering Malaysia secretly and illegally. And there’d be no need to do that, as we get a free ninety day tourist pass, being a fellow member of the Commonwealth. I’m ra...