Five minutes after we arrived at our nice guest house in Kuala Lumpur the heavens opened and a thunderstorm raged all afternoon. Stuck in the guest house we watched poor quality pirate DVDs until we could escape outside. By this time we desperately neded a beer and made a bee-line for 'The Green Man', an English pub (is that sad?) where we ended up chatting to the owner (from Coventry) and his Malaysian missus. Our first day in KL we did a hop on hop off city to...

We were pleasantly surprised by the bus we had booked from Singapore to Melaka - air con and huge reclined seats... who said travelling was hard work?! Four hours later we were on a local bus into town where we met a very friendly local man who worryingly kept stroking Marks arm and repeatedly asking us why we didn't have children, were we going to have any and when...!! Our hostel 'Tony's Guesthouse' was tastefully decorated with artwork by Tony himself.... our...

Our first day in Singapore started rather badly. After a 10.5 hour flight our hostel had not kept our rooms and to make matters worse kept us hanging about for 45 minutes while they mopped and served breakfast to guests before they could be bothered to tell us. Kim was not happy.... Anyway we found another hostel which was ok albeit that we were sharing a dorm with 14 other people and the toilet had only a shower curtain for privacy...hey ho! The hostel is in th...

What can we say about Johannesburg... hmmm...well... not our favourite city I'm afraid. The hostel was 'distinctly average' with a lovely brown stain on the ceiling. Security was tight with a electric fences, barbed wire and access controlled gate and you couldn't go out after dark which meant we were stuck without any food or drink when we arrived...thankfully Debonairs Pizza Delivery were on hand to save our spirits - a quality African pizza delivery company! ...

We arrived in Cape Town mid morning and sadly unloaded our stuff from the truck. Finishing our 7 week trip was a bit of an anti-climax and everyone wandered around looking a bit lost until taxis arrived to cart people off to their hotels! We hope to catch up with a few of the guys later in our trip anyway...so it wasn't really goodbye for us! Our first 3 days in Cape Town were sunny and beautiful but contrary to what everyone thinks - quite cold! We were slightl...