Again, not actually in Singapore as I write this... The next day it was time to travel to Melaka - our final stop in Malaysia. As soon as we arrived were taken to another (Strange) foodcourt by our tour leader... Then we had just a few hours to explore the city. Melaka was much nicer than Penang. Set around a river, it was predominant Chinese in culture and architecture. We hopped straight on some brightly coloured rickshaws (ours adorned with Barbies!) to have ...

So confession, I'm not actually writing this on the 11th from KL - I'm really in Melbourne. I figured I'd do an update the whole of last week once I reached Melbourne as I wouldn't have enough to write about every city - turns out I sure can ramble - so here's the next few days of the trip: Early the next morning we travelled to Kuala Lumpur (that's the capital of Malaysia, Oliver). Getting out of the airconditioned public bus, there was no doubt we'd left the m...

Hi all, Decided to start this travel blog type thing as I could feel myself becoming rather repetitive over e-mail, facebook, skype etc. Thought I'd just do some brief updates every now and again for those who're interested (hi mum, Rosie, grandad). Sorry if my spelling/grammer's atrocious; weird keyboard + 30 second typing delay + no spell check = where English goes to die. So I'm on about day 9 of the trip now. After leaving Heathrow (and a mother who could'v...