This morning we were up at 9.00am and enjoyed our final free breakie of toast and gorgeous jam, washed down with coffee. We headed out into the sun - yes sun! - Our first port of call was the Raffles Museum where we viewed a wide variety of Raffles paraphenalia! From here we headed towards the Padang, home to the Singapore Cricket Club, stopping to take pics of the City Hall and Supreme Court. The next port of call was Boat Quay and the Raffles landing site, now ...

Yesterday we were out of our room by 10.00am and straight into a neighbouring hostel, Cosy Corner, to check availability - They had two beds in a mix-dorm spare, which was a dollar cheaper each and included breakfast and free internet access! We snapped them up and shifted our stuff. We took advantage of the free breakfast then headed towards the Esplanade - 'Theatres on the Bay', via the war memorial, locally known as 'The Chopsticks'. We wondered the cool...

We started Thursday morning bright and early (again!) and headed from the hostel at 8.30am towards Central Market to catch the metro bus to Batu Caves on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. We were lucky enough to get on a bus straight away and arrived after a 45 minute journey at the caves at 9.45am. The main cave is massive and is reached by climbing over 200 steps to the top of the hill, whilst have to dodge the numerous monkeys, who are quite happy to steal the b...

Following a malaria pill chucking-down-the-sink ceremony on Monday night (we didn't need to take the last few, having come to the end of our prescription course), we were rudely awoken at stupid-o-clock (about 5.45am!) thanks to the lovely sounds of prayer calling! Then the kids from a neighbouring room thought it would be fun to keep the whole of the hostel awake by running round the corridors, yelling - little sh*ts! Who'd 'av 'em!?! We finally gave in and r...

After last night's adventure in Penang's 'Red Garden' Night Market where we sampled prawn fritters, chicken satay and dim sum, we woke bright and early and after breakie headed to Komtar to catch the bus to Penang Hill. We had to guess on the time, as no time tables(!), but luckily only had to wait half an hour. We arrived at the lower station of the funicular railway at about 12.30pm only to find out the tickets up to Penang's highest point had sold out until ...