I've not got off to the best start with Myanmar. Having taken my brand new passport, with Angelka's, to their London embassy, they proceeded to lose it, or at least, mislay it! I had to go to London a second time to find it by which time I'd hatched numerous plots to render their embassy unworkable until they found it! The embassy was in swanky Park Lane but was little more than a squat on the inside, dreadful organisation..... but, I have an open mind! We had...

Angelka's winter coat 1, Tim's summer layers, -3.... C! Quite shocking to go from 3 weeks of 30C+ to 3 below. We are instructed by student volunteers at the airport to take a bus which stops 25m from our hotel, situated in Gangnam, which is 50m from a metro stop, perfect. As you drive the 65 kms from the airport to down town alongside the river Han you are aware of two things, bridges and apartment blocks. It turns out that there are 29 bridges that span the ri...

Jakarta, one of the biggest, busiest cities in SE Asia and, if the traffic from the airport is anything to go by, one of the most congested! The pilot told us the visibility was 7 kms as we came into land. I hadn't realised that this was down to pollution. With so many mopeds spewing exhaust fumes it's not surprising to see it so evident. As a moped is not about speed, why they don't make them electric is beyond me?It would have a profound effect on pollution f...

Set on the island of Java, we've come to the city of Yogyakarta (Jogja to the locals)which is the nearest city to Borobudor, one of Buddhism's mose famous temples. Not to be outdone, it is also close to one of Hindu's most ..... called Prambanan. We are staying in a French colonial hotel which is lovely. Having checked in, by tricycle, with the tourist office and booked up B... We headed for P... Upon arrival we were greeted by three kids who told us in broke...

Can't really help you here as we are staying at an airport hotel having checked in at 1.00am and out again at 9.30 later that morning. As its a city and a country, there's not a lot to see or do and once you've done the zoo, afternoon tea at Raffles and drunk the obligatory Singapore sling which was invented at their cocktail bar, that's your lot. It is worth pointing out that coming in to land over the bay you do see an extraordinary number of ships, large and s...