Just touched down and safely in hotel for Christmas. Revolving restaurant and swimming pool may feature in our celebrations this year. When we watched the devastion and tragedy in this area 3 years ago with the Boxing Day Tsunami, it is slightly strange for us to be in the Melaka Straits at this time of year. As our flight from KL was delayed by a couple of hours we arrived mid afternoon.We were soon settled into our hotel (after changing rooms because the fi...

It was a bit of a struggle in the last few days at Tam's to sort out what we were going to take with us, what we were going to send back to the UK and what was to be left in Oz.Frankly, we hadn't devoted enough time and effort to downsizing since we sold Annie and we had to make some quick decisions with only a few days left before leaving the country.However, we made progress when our shipping/storage company delivered boxes on time, and before long we found our...