Wednesday 11th February Got up early and made our way down to the bus station on Beach Street, we booked the bus with Grasslands bus company the fare was 30 Singapore dollars each which was about ￡15. The bus was 26 seater and very comfortable, big reclining seats and lots of leg room. The journey took 5 hours, after we had left Singapore Island the scenery was Jungle up to about an hour out of Kuala Lumpur when it began to be more built up. We were dropped i...

Tuesday 10th February We arrived in Singapore at seven o'clock this morning. We had a great flight with Jet airways on an Airbus (so much leg room is was really comfortable, unlike BA). We entered Changi airport and it was wonderful! A new modern building beautiful décor, lots of space and so clean, you could have eaten off the floor, such a contrast to India and every where was so peaceful and calm. We caught the bus into the city centre, every where is so nea...

Sunday 8th February Today we decided to hire a taxi for the day, to see the sights of Mumbai. The journey did not get off to a good start as the taxi kept stalling and the driver had great problems getting it started again. We got to the gateway of India and the Taj hotel and the taxi refused to start again so Robin and a couple of other taxi drivers ended up pushing the taxi to try and bump start it, it failed miserably so we ditched the driver and his taxi a...

Saturday 31st January we finally arrived in Goa at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, we got a taxi from the station which cost about £4 to the hotel, which is about 15km (10 miles).Our hotel was very nice, with a pool. We had a stroll down to the beach via the town and dipped our toes in the Arabian sea for the first time. We could not believe how many people were on the beach. even though it was the weekend, the whole water line was full of people.The sand wa...

Sunday 25th January Up early again this morning picked up guide and went to Amber palace.We walked up to the palace although there was the option to go up on an elephant.The palace was quite high up and surrounded by a wall all around on the hills.Behind the palace was the Amber city, where the houses that were once occupied by tradesmen had been left to rack and ruin, when the Maharajah abandoned the city and moved to a new palace, in now what is the city of Ja...