I've made it to Hong Kong - I'm halfway home! I'm only really writing this so I can have another country on my blog so there's not a lot to say really. Vicky and I had a nice hangover brekkie before we had to say our goodbyes and I headed for the airport. We have been together 24/7 since January so it was very sad waving goodbye from the bus! I am flying with Cathay Pacific - I am so far very impressed with the food, service and film selection. I watched films ...

We got up earlier today, around 9am! Rose had left us a note saying that she had ironed Vix's dress for her which is so sweet! First of all we got the MRT into town and went to Fort Canning park. It is on a hill in the middle of the city, it kind of reminded me of Central Park in NYC even though they are quite different. We walked down from Fort Cannjng Park to Clarke Quay, the leisure area where we were last night. It was almost dead in the daytime though! We s...

A good day in Singapore! We didn't wake up until 11am which was lovely - we definitely needed to catch up on sleep. We got ready and caught a bus to post our boxes of purchases and gifts home, mine cost $56 to send it by surface mail which takes a month! But faster air mail cost $110 so I couldn't really justify that. Gina and Martin met us at the post office and we caught the MRT to central Singapore, where they bought us lunch in the food court of a shopping...

We got up quite early again, this time to catch our train to Singapore. We got the monorail one stop to KL Sentral station and went to gate B to wait for our 9am train. Unfortunately it was delayed by nearly one hour and we left just before 10am. We were in second class which was perfectly adequate, air conditioned with big TVs showing silent shows. It wasn't full so we sat with a double seat to ourselves, and I promptly fell asleep. When I woke up I was so hot...

I had such a bad night's sleep, I was itching so much from what was either mosquito bites or bed bug bites, and the fan in the room didn't reach me in the top bunk so I was so so hot. After a few hours of tossing and turn I got up and sat in the air conditioned common room and had a homesick cry! After an hour or so of watching the rugby I went back to bed where I ended up getting only two or three hours sleep - I did not want to get up when my alarm went off at ...