A comfy bus journey from Penang took us down to Kuala Lumpur, our second to last stop in South East Asia. As we were heading down on the bus little bits started appearing, little bits which were familiar to us westerners. Motorways - with some kind of hierachy, hard shoulders, service stations, Tarmac and no crazy overtaking manoeuvres. There were still some occasional little touches which reminded us where we were. For instance, the bus driver stopping and pic...

After a boat, 'taxi', train and a ferry we arrived in Pinang, a small island off the west coast of Malaysia. We had spent the last 24 hours (the whole of Belle's birthday) travelling down from Kho Tao and saying our goodbyes to Dave, at this point wanted nothing more than a shower and something to eat. Before we could do this though, we had to find a bed for the night, which was actually an easier task than we thought. After about a 20 minute walk we ended up in...