G'day everyone! Well, not quite there yet but I thought I just let you know that I have safely arrived in Oz although it was quite an experience. After leaving Thailand, I spent 3 more days in Singapore as I didn't really get the chance to see much last night as I was only there for half a day. So this time, I thought, I do all the sight seeing bits, only to discover that there aren't really any sight seeing bits to do in Singapore!!!! Singapore is not that old...

Hiya everyone! Unfortunately, we have had to leave Chiang Mai at some point and start moving towards Bangkok as Neil's holiday is slowly but surely coming to an end. On Monday, we moved to Sukothai, the first Thai capital. There isn't really much here apart from the Old Sukothai Park, which is a Unesco World Heritage site with loads of temples from the 13th and 14th century. We decided to splash out a bit and booked ourselves into a nice guesthouse with swimmin...

Hello everyone, thanks for all the emails that you sent me. They really cheered me up. But the best thing about today was that I got a new passport and I was able to book the flight to Chiang Mai for tomorrow!!!!! So my holiday can now start as planned. After a few days of misery (and I can tell you I was bloody miserable), I am now back smiling and ready to explore again. Admittedly, I didn't feel this way on Friday or Saturday but slowly but surely I have bee...

Hello everyone, you probably would have expected some new photos by now. Unfortunately, they won't come as my camera (and all the photos with it), together with cash, traveller cheques, passport, credit cards, driving license and mobile phone got stolen in Melaka, Malaysia, just the night before I was meant to move to Singapore. We had dinner at a food court and I placed by bag with my belongings under next to me, under the table. Three guys sat down at the tab...

Hello from Malaysia! This is now the last 'new' country on my trip through Asia. Well, it is sort of new as I have spent three weeks in Borneo already and from what I have seen so far, it is very similar. Malaysia is totally different from any other country in Asia that I have been to, much more civilised and westernised to some extent. When you come into a city like Georgetown (on the island of Penang), the skyline of the buildings is pleasant to look at, not ...