What a relief, we escaped from Singapore with our bank balances intact. This seemed highly improbable on arrival where we were informed by numerous signs of the following: No Smoking - $500 (easy for us)No Chewing Gum - $1,000No cycling through tunnel - $1,000No stepping across yellow line at station - $2,000No Jaywalking - $500Not flushing toilet - $500 ... you get the idea!! However, all these rules made this by far the cleanest and most safest feeling citis...

Selamat datang to Kuala Lumpur - an update from the capital. After our vigourous decent from Bangkok, via lethally hot curries, suicidal bus drivers and giant man eating spiders (did we mention we'd seen one dismember a buffalo whilst we ran away - they're that big!) we have decided to set up base in KL from Sunday (01/03) until an ungodly early departure on Saturday (07/03) at 07:00 (now we're not working this is considered early so some sympathy wouldn't go...

Hello from Kuala Lumpur!! Since we last updated the blog we have moved on a few hundred kilometers into Malaysia! I'll start from Friday... where we were just heading off to Penang Hill! Friday 27th Feb (pm) We took a local bus to Sek LokSsi temple, the largest temple in Malaysia which was a gorgeous temple with milions of Budha statues everywhere! After viewing this, we decided to walk to Penang Hill railway station (about a mile away) and took the train/ cabl...

It is about 1:30 and we have decided to escape the sun and update our blog for a couple of minutes!! I realised we forgot to tell you about our FABULOUS hostel yesterday! We are currently residing in Hutton Lodge, penang. It is fab as we are staying in a triple room (they upgraded us when we arrived) for a mere 60 Ringgits a night (approx 12 pounds). This price includes our breakfast too which is served to us every morning on the patio :O) This is my kind of back...

Chris has mostly been eating spicy food - spicy fried beef, thai green curry, chicken biryani and Maccy D's chips in with a chilli sauce (its a cheap nice snack) and loving it!! What Chris is not loving is sharing his room with Lizards named Larry and Lenny who keep threatening to chew on my toes whilst I sleep!!!