Having been through Singapore already, it didn't come as such a surprise when we landed and got on the shiny and spotless tube service into town. If anything though, it was nice to feel something a bit familiar for a change! We decided this time not to book a room in advance as we were getting into Chinatown by mid-afternoon on a Saturday and figured we could just rock up and get a room. How wrong we were. It turns out that this weekend was the Herbalife conve...

Bali was very simple for us. It was about finding somewhere where we could do NOTHING for 2 weeks. After a bit of a faff for a day or so, we settled into a lovely little local hotel north or Nusa Dua with only 6 or 7 rooms and a friendly little family running the place. The beach across the road and down the alley was polluted with trash in the sea quite badly, so we had to cycle 30 minutes to Gerger beach sandwiched between two 5* resorts so the beach was nice...

We got up bright and early and headed to the bus stop for our bus back to Kota Kinabalu and from there on a plane to KL. We managed to flag down an earlier bus and were on our way, smug as anything and now with time to kill. For the whole journey we were treated to the entire album on repeat of 'Pit Bull' (the s*** 'R&B' recording "artist") and his many 'duets' on full blast, which must have been the driver's favourite, weird. The music is awful, but the mus...

On our way to Borneo we had a quick stop off in Georgetown in Malaysia. We arrived late in the day and crashed out to only wake up to a really cute colonial city, all ours to explore. So we of course headed to Tesco Extra and spent 3 hours there in the morning. After a lovely trip to Tesco we headed to the Botanical Gardens for some live music (at the bandstand don't you know). After walking for miles we managed to miss that but 10 minutes, but we did see them...

Koh Tao will definitely go down as one of our favourite places and periods out of this whole trip. The moment we got off the boat we could see how clear and clean the water and beach was even at this - the business - end of the island. This is quite a long post, but it was such a happy and actioned packed week that we really want to document it. We had one aim here and that was diving. We'd been told that this was the cheapest and best place on earth to learn t...