Hello! I was discharged from the hospital today after numerous drips, scans, xrays, pain killers and tablets . . . I have a nasty lower intestine/bowel infection perhaps colitus. So not my apendix afterall, it felt like it though and nobody was sure till 3am thismorning . . .talk about cutting it fine! We fly out to Australia tommorow! Phew. So I still feel a bit crap and I have lots of tablets to remember to take now, hopefully in a week or so I will be on the...

First things first, so far the picture isn't a cause for concern. As you can see Claire is smiling, but yes she is in hospital. Well Singapore has been a mixed bag. Our first day we wandered around the colonial areas. Some nice old buildings mixed with some huge sky scrappers. Claire was feeling a bit rotten so we broke the day up with a sit down while watching mission impossible 4 at the cinema. That evening we went to the singapore art gallery (its free after...

Hi Everybody, Our last few days in Melaka were pretty relaxed, we bought a few Christmas presents for each other, wandered the streets of China town and spent some time chatting to the various other people staying in the hostel. It rained pretty hard one of the days so we spent most of that indoors. We also bought a traditional Malaya marble game - unfortunately the board is made of wood and is about four feet long - its so tall when its in my bag I have to be c...

Hello, we have been in Melaka for a few days now so we thought we should have a catch up. The bus didn't take too long and was quite comfortable so no worries there, then we got on the most delapidated bus i have ever seen - and i have seen a few now - to get into town, it barely made the journey! Then hunted down the hostel and dumped our stuff. Melaka is quite like Luang Prabang in Laos which is a nice change from the hustle and noise and rubbish of KL. We ha...

Hello all from Koala Jumper, We've been here now for a few days and wow its fun been fun being eaten alive by mosquitos you can't even see. It's like being in predator but way more itchy. So we've seen th KL tower and the petronis pair of towers. Both are massive neither I'm prepared to pay to go up. It's not cause I don't like heights its because I'm cheap. They are really big but I was surprised at how low the bridge is in comparison to the whole tower I swear...