After an early morning touch down in Darwin, we were now automatically a couple of 'pomies' down under.After making our way through customs(this time smoothly) and catching a shuttle bus, we arrived at our hostel and attempted to check in. In our entire time in Asia we never had an issue with checking into a hostel early, this was not the case in Oz. We were politely informed that there was a strict 1pm check in time and that there was a "cafe over the road that ...

So after months in planning the day had finally arrived to go and meet Nat and Scott in Singapore. After finding out that Kuala Lumpar wasn't that far away we got up early that morning and hopped on yet another bus. Only 6 hours this time, a breeze! Well it was a breeze until we got to Singapore customs. We had previously been told how expensive alcohol was in Singapore and that you were allowed to take alcohol over the border as long as it was under 1l. We bough...

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...

To those who not know me I am Dave. I am also sometimes referred to as '5 pies', '12 ribs' or 'Big Chang' - amongst other things. I am a long time friend of Matt's and now a pal of Isobel's as well (though some of the Bangkok locals refer to me as Belle's 2nd boyfriend). Matthew kindly honoured me with an invitation to write a guest blog of my recent 2 weeks in Thailand. Whether he expected me to actually do it or not, who knows! You will soon learn that I am ...