Sorry in advance for the photos being behind the highly outdated blog! Internet in S.E. Asia is painful - JF is literally about to use his crutch as a destructive weapon. No joke. Anyhow, upon arrival at the amazing Hutton Lodge (cheers Gavo) in Penang we headed straight for the beach, desperately in need of a good splash after two weeks of the humidity and chaffage of city dwelling! The bus journey took ages as it didn't go above 3rd gear (it was painful to w...

Right guys So we got the bus to Kuala Lumpur, where on arrival we were dropped off in the middle of a smoggy dual carriageway in rush hour. Immediately a friendly enough taxi driver offers to take us to our hotel in Chinatown for a princely sum of 30 ringgits (or 6 quid). Sounds good but we later found that he had overcharged us about 8 times, and taken us on a rather elaborate detour. Not only this but he didn't even drop us outside our place, instead choosing ...

Good evening! As you are probably aware this blog is rapidly getting out of date - looks like you were right Adam! So where we left off, it was goodbye to Fern Loft and Singapore and hello to Melaka. We donned our 'fanny packs' and made like a banana and got the bus out of there. Melaka lies at the cultural heart of Malaysia, influenced by the Dutch, Portuguese, British, Japanese and Chinese. It basically looks like a Dutch village, windmills included, with on...