Hello readers,We have jumped on a plane from KL for what feels like the hundredth time, I now know the staff of the airports McDonalds parents names, and this time landed in Kota Kinabalu the capital of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo.We spent a night in the capital watching the beginning of the Chinese new year celebrations before heading for Mount Kinabalu National Park to attempt to climb Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in South East Asia. The climb i...

So the last time we wrote we had just left the north of the Phillipines where everyone passes the time by spitting what looks like blood all over the place but is in fact a mixture of betel nut, some sort of leaves and lime - pretty gross. When they are not doing that or smoking then they can be found eating fertilized eggs. On 1 particular bus journey we had a stop for refreshments and the whole bus apart from us headed straight for the egg stall. We watched in ...

Hi Everyone, hope all is well at home, We are now in Malaysia where we plan to spend a few days before heading to Sumatra, The Philipines and Bali over the next two months. We are staying in a colonial hill station called the Cameron Highlands, which is up in the mountains surrounded by tea plantations and farms. Its supposed to be like olde England but its not except for cream teas and the rain. We have been trekking in the jungle today and got covered in mud a...