Mixed feelings today, sad as this is the last leg of an amazing trip, but happy as we LOVE Bali. It would have been rubbish to have ended with an anti-climax, but we arrived at 8.30pm and got a taxi from outside the airport to Ubud where we were staying for the first 3 nights. It's about an hour from the airport and as we neared Ubud we could tell this was going to be fantastic. There are statues, temples and shrines everywhere and as we drove through Ubud th...

We are now in Phuket in Thailand. Staying at a great place called Boomerang Village, which was number 1 on tripadvisor and is the price of a travelodge in England...and........it's called Boomerang! Fun! Why would we stay anywhere else? Unfortunately we have the addition of a new holiday word, rain! A humongous amount of rain! Although it doesn't last too long and it's still REALLY hot! And new phrase is the ubiquitous Thai phrase 'same, same, but different' ...

We are now in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The word of the holiday so far...humongous! Don't know how to spell it,don't know if it's a real word (unless you are a teenage mutant ninja turtle) but it's the word of the holiday so far. Petronas towers, humongous! Buddha at the batu caves, humongous, queue at passport control.....humongous! (ian has just googled it and apparently humongous became a real word in 1960's, I honestly thought it was a made up word) Ph...