Weeks 16 and 17 have finally crawled by and as we sit at Langkawi Airport (with lots of lovely time to spare), it's time to write farewell to Langkawi. A mere couple of weeks ago it was a red letter day and after two and a half years, in the cheapest country in the world, I finally hit the hairdresser. An hour and 20 minutes later (and about 10 euros if you can believe it), I left a new woman. Obviously my hair was in dire need of a cut... but I must admit the...

It's easy to tell when we are into the home stretch of an extra long housesit (and 4 months in Langkawi definitely counts as extra long). Basically blogs go from 1 every few days... to once a week and now, finally to once every couple of weeks. In a little over 2 weeks time we'll be on the move again and heading to KL/Dubai and Ireland. In the meantime however we still sound like a dating website... We enjoy long walks on the beach every day, cocktails at suns...

Well here we are - 17 August today which means exactly one calendar month until we fly out of Langkawi (albeit just a puddle-jump to Kuala Lumpur for one night). But then there will really be a change of pace - KL to Dubai for a 3 day stopover then on up to Dublin and the lovely South-West of Ireland - one of our spiritual homes. The last couple of weeks (weeks 12 and 13 of our 17 week adventure in the tropics) have been alternately quiet and busy - which we su...

Days 787-793, 28-3 Aug '16, Beach House Fever, Wk 11Thursday 28 July - The headlines rang out "Mice Infestation!" Alright then, imaginary headlines. Not as though there are newspapers to read here in Langkawi (thank heavens for websites like BBC etc). We are in a constant battle with nature about what counts as 'indoors' and thus our territory and 'outdoors' and their territory. Call it the Alamo. Call it Little Bighorn. One way or another however, we are lo...

Week 10 (only 7 left!) started on Thursday 21 July. After a 5 night stay which they extended to six (we must be doing something right), the guests in the beach house moved on to their next stop. As if Langkawi isn't far enough away "from it all", their next stop is the only other inhabited island in the archipelago - Pulau Tuba. They may well be acting all Robinson Crusoe - but by the time we found the Marble Jetty for their local ferry trip, we felt like Chri...