Arrival in Telly-Tubby land!!! The Cameron Highlands are unbelievable! This country is so mix-matched, how does it get these massive hills right in the middle and go from being so warm to being quite chilly, just in the middle?! I suppose we are quite far up in the Highlands when we finally arrive at our destination - Fathers Guesthouse, which was lovely. Definitely the best place we've stayed, lovely triple room - big room - and enough bed room for all of us. ...

Sob, sob - last day in paradise! We thought now we had our Open Water (qualified divers - still in shock!) we should dive in what's known as one of the best dive spots in the world. By stroke of luck and networking skills, my old boss's daughter, Sunny, owns a dive school on the beach we were staying (good old Long Beach) so we had a stroll over there (how hard is it to actually walk on sand? How do people run? Baywatch was a fix I'm sure!) and met Sunny (who w...

Team Leeds hits Paradise!!! Don't worry; we've managed not to spoil it too much!! Well, after leaving the horrendous internet cafe where a young Asian boy decided to show us all porn on his computer and make suggestive comments (whatever he's heard about Western girls, it is so wrong - I think Anne-Marie's face said it all!) we made our way over to the Butterworth bus station and wondered where the rest of the backpackers were as we were the only Westerners aroun...

I write this in possibly the most ear-shattering nosiest environment I have ever been in (outside a club you understand), we have somehow ended up in an internet cafe in the middle of Butterworth, Malaysia, surrounded by teenage Malay's (right description?) playing video games on the computers on the loudest volume setting ever...I'm not sure what sort of hearing capabilities we'll have after leaving here! How have we found ourselves here?? Well, after we decide...

Well after the 'epic' journey (never-ending and bone-aching more like) and a scary cross across the border (who knew we were illegal immigrants for the day?!) we finally made it into Laos! Laos must be the most laid back country ever, the people just dont really care about anything, most of them seem to be just chilling all the time, how they live I dont know! The country itself is as laid back as the culture, being flat as a pancake apart from the odd mountains...