Thursday 2 June - Cenang Beach via aqua-planing drive, Night Market, Tourist Strip, Car seemingly on last legs, Scorpion ScareWe have been here over two weeks and are yet to make it to tourist-central - Pantai Cenang or Cenang Beach. We tried waiting out a torrential downpour but eventually gave in and puttered along at 40 kms before getting to the Cenang Night Market. Ended up waiting out the rain at that point instead. After a stroll around the market, we he...

Moving right along it's now, believe it or not, the end of our second week in Langkawi and coincidentally less than 7 shopping months til Christmas and about a week until Ramadan begins... where is 2016 going? And, more to the point, we wonder where we'll be at Christmas time this year. Short answer... who knows? It's been quite a week and after 2 weeks in Langkawi we have a reasonable idea of the island: from point A to point B will invariably take 30 minutes....

Thursday 19th May - We arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia feeling rumpled and tired. Not surprising really as neither of us got much sleep on the 7 hours from Dubai. Thankfully Kuala Lumpur airport was brilliant, through immigration in the blink of an eye (or did we just fall asleep in the very short queue?) Bags arrived (always a positive with checked bags) and before we knew it we were in the arrivals concourse at about 9.30 am. Seriously quick. Prior to the r...

Tuesday morning dawned fine and clear at the holiday home in Cahore and we were both very excited at the journey ahead - it's been almost 2 years since I've done a 7+ hour flight and well over a year for James. We returned Zippy to his home in Enniscorthy and said a final fond farewell to Ann at the Enniscorthy bus 'station'. Well 'stop' really. If it weren't for the hordes of people coming to and fro and intercity and airport buses, you wouldn't even realise ...

Days 702-714, 5-16 May '16, Farewell Ireland...It's been a busy but not earthshattering final couple of weeks in Ireland. We've spend a lot of time in Cahore and taking long walks on the beach (sounds like a dating website!) The weather has been improving day by day - even up to 20 scorching degrees... that's shorts and T-shirts weather here in the emerald isle incidentally. When we have been indoors we've been Netflixing and watched multiple series of iZombie....