Monday + Tuesday Early start to head for the train to KL. Long journey, arrived in KL Train station for a 4 hour stop, tempted to get a train into KL central, but worried we'd miss our connection. So after a long a boring wait (nothing to do in KL station), we boarded the train to Hat Yai. We had a little room with bunk beds, so managed to get a little bit of shut eye, but I woke at about 2am and stayed wide awake for the remaining journey, since I was crapp...

Sunday After our yummy 'inclusive' bfast, we headed out to the Train Station, to book out tickets to Thailand. We then headed to a 'Tech Mall', where I purchased a memory card for my camera and we had a "Pastamania" lunch. Next to Raffles City Mall and Chijmes, to check out some over-priced souvenirs. Back at the hotel, we chilled at the infinity pool and sipped on a "Gallery Hotel" cocktail, while Darren practiced his "Terrapin" swimming technique. We set o...

Saturday Darren was still sleepy- even after his near to 16hour nap- there was a lack of communication during his jet-laggedness. Managed to drag him out of bed and take a taxi to the Botanic Gardens. Poor Darren was feeling the heat but once he glugged down a litre or so of H2O, all was mmk. The park was beautiful, and the sun was shining so we had a lovely stroll around the place- checking out a short jungle walk (Darren's first rainforest experience) and ...

What an odd feeling waking up on the morning of departure. It didn't feel like I'd ever expected. I think the excitement, anxiety, well any feeling at all, was smothered by the focus to get my stuff packed and actually get ready to leave in time. I'd put it off far far to long. We had to get up oober early to attend assembly that morning, so the packing had to wait. We were invited to give a short speech to the school and I made sure to make eye contact with as m...

Here we go- the proper unpadate at last. At KK airport, we finally made the perfume girls a deal. Every time Aman and i had flown out of KK (which was quite a lot!), we played with the perfume, yet never purchased a thing. But lovely Aman bought me a lush bottle for my birthday, so I was very chuffed. We then got our last batch of "Famous Amos Cookies"- delish! After a flight spent thinking over the past 6 months, trying to mentally prepare ourselves for the...